It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
My thought is that we did NOT make it 250 years in this Democracy. Trump broke that streak. There is NOTHING to celebrate. WE DID NOT MAKE IT.
That doesnt mean we cant recover what Trump took. It just means that we are not 250 years of a SUCCESS STORY.
WE FAILED.
That failure is what needs to be understood on the most deep and basic level so it doesnt happen again.
We are not a WHITE Country founded by WHITE people only doing WHITE things that are purely WHITE when "others" invaded us and sullied our WHITENESS. We are not a country of the WHITE GOD that looks over only WHITE PEOPLE and only allows the WHITES TO LIVE HAPPY when all those "others" tried to also worship OUR WHITES ONLY GOD. Which is what Trump and his ilk want the world to now all the sudden believe.
We
failed.There is NOTHING to celebrate. STAY HOME. Do not celebrate THIS. We did not make it 250 years. This FOURTH OF JULY, Trump will be forcing everyone to praise THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR, because he is a warmonging piece of shit that DESTROYED OUR FREEDOM AND OUR DEMOCRACY.
No one should be celebrating this weekend. To do so states that YOU BELIEVE TRUMP IS RIGHT and our country is a WHITE NATION with an immigration problem.
We did not make it 250 years with this Democracy experiment. You feel crappy BECAUSE WE FAILED.
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White male landowning dominance, and preserving the availability of human labor for their exploitation?
The US is now exactly what it was intended to be.
Sorry, I’m not happy with the public displays of jingoism that this holiday enforces.
that's the part we need to get rid of.
The United States is supposed to be a multicultural melting pot of diversity and freedom. Those are the ideals. This capitalist **** is not worth celebrating.
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my oldest friend's personal motto was 'Endeavor to Persevere'
when the black dog of depression has latched on , it's my mantra . and I find myself repeating it often of late
Blessed are the flexible for they can not be bent out of shape
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr Sorry your mental health is suffering now, but also, OF COURSE IT IS. Being compassionate and living among monsters makes for insanity.
I haven't been enthused about "the fourth" for a while. Same with Thanksgiving. I observe it with my family because that's when certain relatives are in town, and between children and a disabled relative, it seems unfair to deprive them of that time.
Focusing on what/how I want to rebuild.
Maybe this is *not* a good time to leave fireworks around.
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@RickiTarr I've felt this way about the 4th for a long lime. I usually find ways to appreciate the part of the celebration that it about being with friends, and fume silently about the rest.
Me too. The thing I find abhorent about celebrating the Fourth of July is the fireworks. We literally stand and look up ooing at ahhing at something that is supposed to represent --The rockets red glare, the BOMBS bursting in air. I dont celebrate with BOMBS. Bombs are bad in my mind. Fireworks specifically on the 4th of July are bad in my mind because they represent death to humans so that others could be free. This in not something I deem worthy of celebrating in this way
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr If it’s any consolation, I feel exactly the same way about… waves hands widely… all of this
I made a comment to my husband earlier “I’m more interested in celebrating the 200th”
To which he said “you’ll be over 80 then.”
My response :
“EVEN MORE REASON TO CELEBRATE!”
I don’t know if that helps
Maybe we can celebrate 175 together with a better country and all of this horribleness behind us (and learned from!) (doesn’t mean it’s a guarantee but one can hope!) -
@Mwritter @RickiTarr
Freedoms for traitors & billionaires. Not for you or me.If you are a Trumper, you spell that Freeedom.
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My thought is that we did NOT make it 250 years in this Democracy. Trump broke that streak. There is NOTHING to celebrate. WE DID NOT MAKE IT.
That doesnt mean we cant recover what Trump took. It just means that we are not 250 years of a SUCCESS STORY.
WE FAILED.
That failure is what needs to be understood on the most deep and basic level so it doesnt happen again.
We are not a WHITE Country founded by WHITE people only doing WHITE things that are purely WHITE when "others" invaded us and sullied our WHITENESS. We are not a country of the WHITE GOD that looks over only WHITE PEOPLE and only allows the WHITES TO LIVE HAPPY when all those "others" tried to also worship OUR WHITES ONLY GOD. Which is what Trump and his ilk want the world to now all the sudden believe.
We
failed.There is NOTHING to celebrate. STAY HOME. Do not celebrate THIS. We did not make it 250 years. This FOURTH OF JULY, Trump will be forcing everyone to praise THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR, because he is a warmonging piece of shit that DESTROYED OUR FREEDOM AND OUR DEMOCRACY.
No one should be celebrating this weekend. To do so states that YOU BELIEVE TRUMP IS RIGHT and our country is a WHITE NATION with an immigration problem.
We did not make it 250 years with this Democracy experiment. You feel crappy BECAUSE WE FAILED.
Naw, we didn't make it 40 years. The trail of tears? Jackson straight up ignored a supreme court order and genocided multiple tribes. 15,000 dead, 60,000 displaced.
Hell, we didn't make it 1 year. Black people were chattel slaves the moment the constitution was signed.
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Naw, we didn't make it 40 years. The trail of tears? Jackson straight up ignored a supreme court order and genocided multiple tribes. 15,000 dead, 60,000 displaced.
Hell, we didn't make it 1 year. Black people were chattel slaves the moment the constitution was signed.
Fully and completely agree.
However by celebrating THIS weekend, you are adding to the success of TRUMP, not the USA.
July 4th was our INDEPENDENCE DAY.
We are not. We are currently considered a CORPORATION IN THE MIDST OF A HOSTILE TAKE OVER by a failed business man. -
It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
It's still a day like any other that ends in "Y". Just because it has a label on it that doesn't fit for the moment doesn't make it a required activity.
We celebrate when there's cause to do it, not because someone else does it blindly, or a TV ad or personality says it's time to break out your party hat.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
We all know the feeling, but I'd offer that you might want to simply save those fireworks for a day worth celebrating. I mean, dude's gonna die soon. That's an occasion to let off some bottle rockets.
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Me too. The thing I find abhorent about celebrating the Fourth of July is the fireworks. We literally stand and look up ooing at ahhing at something that is supposed to represent --The rockets red glare, the BOMBS bursting in air. I dont celebrate with BOMBS. Bombs are bad in my mind. Fireworks specifically on the 4th of July are bad in my mind because they represent death to humans so that others could be free. This in not something I deem worthy of celebrating in this way
Fireworks on New Years -- GREAT IDEA!
Fireworks when representing bomb flares, NOT.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr "what do we do, how do we help?"
Start local.
Here is one example - supporting a local candidate for state legislature. (The district is made up, according to the census, of about 30,000 people...and according to the county clerk, 20,000 voters.)
Grace is now an official candidate:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/116814587248706664She is building the campaign one neighbor at a time, one neighborhood at a time, one organization at a time:
https://www.facebook.com/GraceForHD51/posts/pfbid02oBxGn9YZfjuEbcVCHet8nDzfdpVSUzVgaWLZ4RN2Mf7UhLFaJZinZGFFr6ZS9RUHlHere is Grace's post if you're not on FB:
I am deeply honored and incredibly grateful to receive the support of Ashlie Myers’ campaign, including a generous donation to my campaign.
Although I did not have the privilege of knowing Ashlie personally, I have heard so many wonderful things about her heart, her dedication, and her unwavering commitment to serving others. It is truly humbling to be entrusted with carrying forward a small part of the work she cared so deeply about.
In Ashlie’s honor and memory, I will continue to be a strong advocate and champion for the rights of women and for our at-risk communities. Her legacy of compassion and service deserves to live on, and I will do my very best to honor that legacy through my work and my commitment to the people of House District 51.
A heartfelt thank you to Alexis Romo for your kindness, your generosity, and for presenting me with this donation on behalf of Ashlie’s campaign. I am also deeply grateful to everyone who continues to carry Ashlie’s vision forward. Your support means more than words can express, and I sincerely appreciate the trust you have placed in me.
Together, we will continue building stronger, safer, and more compassionate communities while honoring Ashlie’s legacy of service.
With sincere gratitude,
Grace Nagamine
Candidate for New Mexico House District 51======================
You know, supporting local candidates...is about as 4th of July as you can get without launching fireworks.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr solution is to not celebrate. fireworks are terrible for veterans and wildlife anyways.
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My thought is that we did NOT make it 250 years in this Democracy. Trump broke that streak. There is NOTHING to celebrate. WE DID NOT MAKE IT.
That doesnt mean we cant recover what Trump took. It just means that we are not 250 years of a SUCCESS STORY.
WE FAILED.
That failure is what needs to be understood on the most deep and basic level so it doesnt happen again.
We are not a WHITE Country founded by WHITE people only doing WHITE things that are purely WHITE when "others" invaded us and sullied our WHITENESS. We are not a country of the WHITE GOD that looks over only WHITE PEOPLE and only allows the WHITES TO LIVE HAPPY when all those "others" tried to also worship OUR WHITES ONLY GOD. Which is what Trump and his ilk want the world to now all the sudden believe.
We
failed.There is NOTHING to celebrate. STAY HOME. Do not celebrate THIS. We did not make it 250 years. This FOURTH OF JULY, Trump will be forcing everyone to praise THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR, because he is a warmonging piece of shit that DESTROYED OUR FREEDOM AND OUR DEMOCRACY.
No one should be celebrating this weekend. To do so states that YOU BELIEVE TRUMP IS RIGHT and our country is a WHITE NATION with an immigration problem.
We did not make it 250 years with this Democracy experiment. You feel crappy BECAUSE WE FAILED.
@LaNaehForaday @RickiTarr We "made it" as a representative democracy for 16 years. From 1964 to 1980. It took all of 188 years just to get to "all [people] are created equal", and then 16 years until "...but some babies get trust funds on their first day out".
Building civilization is difficult. Tearing it down is easy. And profitable for the ones doing it.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr I love my local community. The country left me when it chose fascism. As it turns out, we're out of the country for the event that I do not want to be party of. Which was a good decision. We'll be back soon enough ...
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr My American friend lives here in the UK (English mother), with family in California (her dad's American). She worries about visiting due to Trump rhetoric & passport control checking phones/social media. My view, the USA let in 1000s of British football fans not shy about flapping their mouths, who welcome a fist fight with anyone up for it. Cue anti-Trump/Epstein chants. Bullet-headed UK fans do like Tommy Robinson (friends with the Trump administration), but they hate paedophiles.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
Focus on The Moneyed who made this world ...
1. Spending millions to get corrupt Republicans entrenched in the Courts, Congress & Presidency
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations
2. Spending millions to get legislation that favors themselves. Climate denial. Predatory finance. Economic immiseration. Mass layoffs. Wage suppression. Wars. High gas prices. Public corruption. Fossil fuel subsidies. Lax pollution rules
https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116819681970264434
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr I'll add my voice to the chorus of those who share the feelings you expressed so well. Told my wife a few days ago I see no reason to "celebrate" the vicious, evil, genocidal, ecocidal monstrosity engulfing the land where I was born.
A commemoration in the form of grieving would be more apt. Or maybe rage...
All the best. Be well. -
@RickiTarr
I cannot celebrate, since the America we were striving for never came to pass and the efforts we were making toward it were strangled by rich men filled with hate.Every year we re-watch 1776 and marvel that the country even managed to happen.
This year is a year of mourning, not celebration.
@realtegan @RickiTarr I stopped celebrating when Roe was reversed. It's hard enough to live under patriarchy but now we're 2nd class citizens. SMH
#freedomofchoice
