I was born in 1980. I remember as a kid reading the sanitized, patriotic revisionist version of American history, and thinking with pride how exciting it would be to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary when I grew up.
Now the Semiquincentennial is here, and I want nothing to do with it at all.
I was 8 years old in 1976. The bicentennial was exciting and fun. This is pathetic and fitting of a terrible country that has given itself away to its worst people. America 250 is utter garbage.
The double-think in all of the petty bickering is what defies logic to me. When we invite them, they’re the best in the world. When they decline the invitation, they’re the deplorable worst and we never wanted them. Like, what? It’s their approach to everything! And it’s mind-boggling
I think our local county fair with corn dogs, a ferris wheel, 4H animals and handicrafts, nurtured on sugar and ketchup and teenage sweaty angst trying to find a friend through the dust of the farm combine demotion derby has more to offer than this overwrought spectacle....
"When you walk around Washington, D.C.,” said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, one of the night’s warmup acts, “not only is it safe again. It’s beautiful again.” This is such a powerful statement and you allude to it's danger, ..."have been made both safe and beautiful, simply by fencing them off, filling them with soldiers, and redesigning them as a suburban lawn. First, these blocks, and next, the world."
The event was a testament to their success, thus far, in creating two versions of America. An America where might makes right, those in power rule over law, not with it, and where being an American is narrowly defined but always nebulous; to keep you loyal it has to be that way. The other version, a diverse but fraught America trying to be a more perfect union is being dismantled by, to use your description, a suburban lawn. An astro turf suburban lawn, rolled out over that diverse ecosystem in order to stifle and then kill it.
It's pretty sad. He's confusing people laughing at him with people laughing at America. Well people are still laughing at him. I don't think people in other countries are have enough time to be laughing at America. They might have thoughts and feelings as they manage their own business but I don't think they are laughing.
Saw the headline, thought of the post-Tuesday 23 June national Democratic Party in which one longs for the party of the New Deal and Great Society, one is told to get the fuck out of the party.
I’ve ranted forever that the national party’s been an alt-Republican party since Slick Willy and his DLC and libs snipe at me.
I was born in 1980. I remember as a kid reading the sanitized, patriotic revisionist version of American history, and thinking with pride how exciting it would be to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary when I grew up.
Now the Semiquincentennial is here, and I want nothing to do with it at all.
I was 8 years old in 1976. The bicentennial was exciting and fun. This is pathetic and fitting of a terrible country that has given itself away to its worst people. America 250 is utter garbage.
[ … prompting a petulant President Donald Trump to declare that he would “take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists’ … ]
So he originally wanted third-rate artists for the most epic party ever? Only the best for America!
The double-think in all of the petty bickering is what defies logic to me. When we invite them, they’re the best in the world. When they decline the invitation, they’re the deplorable worst and we never wanted them. Like, what? It’s their approach to everything! And it’s mind-boggling
I think our local county fair with corn dogs, a ferris wheel, 4H animals and handicrafts, nurtured on sugar and ketchup and teenage sweaty angst trying to find a friend through the dust of the farm combine demotion derby has more to offer than this overwrought spectacle....
Oh, it definitely has more to offer than...whatever this is.
"When you walk around Washington, D.C.,” said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, one of the night’s warmup acts, “not only is it safe again. It’s beautiful again.” This is such a powerful statement and you allude to it's danger, ..."have been made both safe and beautiful, simply by fencing them off, filling them with soldiers, and redesigning them as a suburban lawn. First, these blocks, and next, the world."
The event was a testament to their success, thus far, in creating two versions of America. An America where might makes right, those in power rule over law, not with it, and where being an American is narrowly defined but always nebulous; to keep you loyal it has to be that way. The other version, a diverse but fraught America trying to be a more perfect union is being dismantled by, to use your description, a suburban lawn. An astro turf suburban lawn, rolled out over that diverse ecosystem in order to stifle and then kill it.
beautifully written words on our Helldivers ass zeitgeist
This event wasn't a celebration, it was an auto-da-fé of the US of A
It's pretty sad. He's confusing people laughing at him with people laughing at America. Well people are still laughing at him. I don't think people in other countries are have enough time to be laughing at America. They might have thoughts and feelings as they manage their own business but I don't think they are laughing.
Saw the headline, thought of the post-Tuesday 23 June national Democratic Party in which one longs for the party of the New Deal and Great Society, one is told to get the fuck out of the party.
I’ve ranted forever that the national party’s been an alt-Republican party since Slick Willy and his DLC and libs snipe at me.
Maybe now realization is dawning…?
It sounds incredibly scary 🫣 😨
Thank you for enduring it to give us this report.