HAPPY 4TH OF JULY AMERICA

Well done for kicking George III's ass you guys.

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Hooray!

1993 - United States 2 England 0

Graham Taylor was not having the happiest time as England manager when he took his side to the States to face a USA side preparing for the forthcoming year's World Cup, and things got even worse in the USA Cup with Taylor's increasingly disspirited side falling to an embarassing defeat. Soon afterwards, their chances of returning for the World Cup were over, along with Taylor's international career.

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soccer lol

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Yes!

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Thanks for all the tea, lol. May we share our maize with you?

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one bit at a time

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Or is this thread only for love letters from non-Americans?

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MARK C TINKERHOMER A+++++

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(babelfish translation: "'For the reason.' 'Stand I on America!' That was the birth of two genuine American heroes!"

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fanfare.mp3

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lololol xpost

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Eh, he was a brit, but the poster has Mt. Rushmore in it. Didn't Clement Greenberg call it "the world's largest piece of kitsch" or something along those lines?

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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, BATCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (disco-related)

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Man, you guys are such fools. Look what you're missing out on

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oh no he diden't lolololxpost

I think my mother may have voted for dubya. I haven't spoken to her in years, nor do I wish to.

why the hell are there pictures of royals on America's Birthday Thread? Get your own damn thread.
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My Fourth summarized:

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11pm and they'll be setting them off for another two hours.

How can you possibly feel patriotic?

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How can you possibly be such a dick?

Ned, if you squint that fireworks display looks a bit like you.

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GOOULE

Happy bidet to our dying ex-democracy.

ooh Republican alert

If July 4th weren't my daughter's birthday I would just go on a rampage of destruction every year.

I'm not going to bother arguing with you, but it's ridiculous to assume that the people watching fireworks/posting to this thread/getting drunk on the fourth of July are all feeling jingoistic/patriotic/pro-war/pro-Bush.

And LOL at anyone ever accusing me of being a republican. I'll show you my RCP membership card sometime.

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Some assholes left all their discarded works in the parking lot at work. The fact that our building is right by a big-ass ripe for brushfire-type open field, which is next to a large lumber storage yard, should have maybe clued them in that this ain't the best place to be lightin' 'em off. Shit, weren't these people raised right? Everybody know that you put your expelled fireworks into a bucket of water to make sure they're dead.

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Or so it was claimed, August 4 is considered more credible.

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The idea of our troops gangbanging a coy, yet submissive cartoon mouse doesn't exactly juice my patriotic tendencies. In fact, I find it gross and disturbing.

WE ARE SO LUCKY TO BE FREE!!!!!

HOW LUCKY WE ARE JUST TO BE FREE!!!!

And all the men who gave their lives so we could be free!

cant forget the men who gave their lives so we could SB

Hahahah

Americans are proud and FREE baby FREE! Could you ever believe we're FREE, baby? FREE?

Sky sez: Only in America, man.

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We can speak our mind! We're free!

oh kenan! Kenan dude I think you're totally cool. You've put enough cool posts out there to seal the deal. I think you're very cool.

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we can speak our mind where we are not tempbanned

hopefully this sticks:
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The prototypical internet-evangelizing RON PAUL supporter.

DC fireworks were great. Earlier in the day one could see for free either salsa great Willie Colon and band; Hari Krishnas with multiple stages and tents; a smoke-in with bands; black christian rockers on another stage; traditional folk music from Wales at the free Smithsonian Folklife fest; danceable traditional Latin sounds from Colombia and elsewhere ("Viva Colombia, Viva America" went one song) at the Smithsonian Fest plus in another part of the fest hiphop poetry with one poet singing along with Marvin Gaye's rendition of the National Anthem; the Air Force Band in the Air & Space Museum doing "Foxy Lady" and "My Country Tis of Thee" and Barry Manilow and Aretha Franklin at the Capitol. A diverse enough mix to make you (or at least me) put away your(my) cynicism re politics for a day.

it is our anniversary. We got married on the 4th of July 2008!

good job dragging all your friends out on a major holiday

We were at the JP. No friends were in attendance.

Good job dragging the JP out on a major holiday

lol

well, at least you kept it to yourselves - i still want to murder that family acquaintance that dragged us all out to the West side on a July 4th a few years back

but happy anniversary, i wish everyone would just get it done court-style

well, I brought my husband on a fiance visa, and we had to apply for his green card and advance parole quickly as he had to go back to Germany to settle his mother's estate...we went to the jail, they have a judge there 24/7/365.
Still. Day off work! Fireworks!

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bf and i are doing an indoor picnic, flanked by air conditioning and internet access. we've got burgers, chicken sausage, deviled eggs, and watermelon. we might watch a dvd later.

just put the AC on, watchin baseball.

I really can't wait to see how the media make Labor Day all about the military and nothing but.

I don't care much about America's birthday, but it's also my daughter's birthday, so I'm grilling some Italian sausages later.

On behalf of all dogs and dog owners nationwide, fuck this fucking bullshit holiday forever

I just gave sincere advice to the kids setting off M80s in front of my building: "DIE."

the cherry bombs my friends used to set off when I was a kid were terrifying

I fucking love explosions, feel for the PTSD sufferers, though.

Happy 4th bros and dudettes

*valley girls

Mentioned on CSPAN channels' History TV, BookTV: there were a lot of British loyalists, and I'd like to know more about how they fared, adjusted, because now I'm one, because yadda yadda did away with slavery with nothing like the US Civil War. I like to think that if things could have been worked out soon enough, also no American Revolutionary War, but either way, to have gone from Empire to Commonwealth might have spared North America and the rest of the world a lot of horrible things, though not all of 'em. Maybe American resources would have had corrupting, delusional effect on Empire, dunno. But mainly thinking about slavery.

Nothing bolsters an argument like “yadda yadda”

Seriously, avoid roads at night if you can. It’s as scary as Super Bowl Sunday with drunken assholes on the streets

Nothing bolsters an argument like “yadda yadda”

― calstars, Tuesday, July 4, 2023 8:48 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

here's to you, bumping a 4th of july thread on ilx, really reading the room. i'm sure you're better at starting fun conversations at the bar. have a marvelous 4th of july, dickweed.

i grilled all day! sloooooooow ribs and then sausage and hot dogs and corn and potatoes and carrots and peppers. we got a grill awhile back. i didn't think i'd really take to it late in life but it was enjoyable. started prep at 10 am and we ate at 2:30.

grills are great though. for all kinds of things. we got a propane one. can't believe i haven't been eating like this forever.

sadly, the 4th was my day off anyway cuz my store is closed tuesdays. i LOVE closing on holidays. you know, so that i can spend the day in prayer or so i can clean my guns or whatever.

i think some of the satisfaction of grilling is getting everything ready at the same time. its a trick. my food competition show juices start flowing.

Nothing bolsters an argument like “yadda yadda”

― calstars, Tuesday, July 4, 2023 8:48 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

here's to you, bumping a 4th of july thread on ilx, really reading the room. i'm sure you're better at starting fun conversations at the bar. have a marvelous 4th of july, dickweed.

I shouldn't have said "yadda yadda," but find the rest of it more and more appealing. The Constitutional compromises made to get the slave states into the Union led to tragedy, tragedies.

History is usually meager pickings if you're looking for uplifting inspiration. I'm speaking here of every nation's history. But if you're a US citizen there are a few glimmers of goodness intermixed into US history and if there's any day to reflect on those highlights instead of all the bloody minded rapacity and cruelty, then today is a good day for it.

Also true.

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Which then of course always reminds me of

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Happy 4th fellow ‘Mericans
What are y’all up to today

go fuck yourself loser

burning flags

Having a military parade in my honor

i'm sure these things have been mentioned here but...

- in the funding bill, ICE is going to receive eight times the entire fbi budget each year.
- laura loomer, trump's rumored girlfriend, tweeted about feeding "65 million" people to alligators at that florida facility. 65 million is the number of latinos in america, not undocumented immigrants.
- also in the bill, benefits were cut dramatically and new work requirements were imposed on medicaid during a time when employment is harder than ever to find. just look around at all the people you know who have sent hundreds of applications to no avail.
- i still see trump flags all over the place even though the election is over. what do people actually think they are celebrating? mindless hatred? who benefits from any of this?

from a substack called "dissent in bloom"

To put that in perspective, if you make ~$50,000/dollars a year, you would have to work for about three MILLION years to earn what ICE gets in ONE.

It is more than thirty times what the IRS gets to go after tax fraud.

It is twenty-one times what the ATF gets to stop gun trafficking.

Thirteen times more than what the DEA gets to fight drug cartels.

Eight times the entire FBI budget.

This is more money than all the federal agencies get in a year combined.

Of course, the MAGA loyalists say this is about border security. National security. But the numbers don’t lie. This is about building a national apparatus of control, one that targets immigrants now but sets a precedent for broader domestic repression later. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: there are only so many immigrants.

The federal government knows this. ICE knows this. They are not preparing to police immigration.. they appear to be preparing to police everyone.

this combined with the palantir stuff really makes sense to me. trump is making his own secret police apart from other established law enforcement agencies.

posting this here bc i can't find the politics thread.

yep sucks

i like this holiday. there's a lot to like about the land and the culture even though the present moment is fucked up. but here's the thing, when wasn't that true? never. anyway i have the day off, 420, chips and guac for later, it's high summer, did a beautiful run this morning in a beautiful lil gully. i feel celebratory. but i'm holding space for all the really bad news and the really angry people. who have every right to be angry and so forth. did i say holding space, i meant scrolling past. tee hee.

I'm having a rare afternoon martini before a party at my cousin's, for which I'd have needed the fortification anyway.

I love the lot of you.

aw love back to you sweetie

do yall remember when our country genocided a whole continent's worth of people? and like everyone was in unanimous agreement that it was not only cool but righteous? both parties iirc. but we're def "doing the work" now with land acknowledgements. ice kinda small potatoes next to all that. and yet here we are.

anyway here's a cool story: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/07/02/utah-garden-celebrates-native/

Happy 4th fellow ‘Mericans
What are y’all up to today

― calstars, Friday, 4 July 2025 bookmarkflaglink

go fuck yourself loser

― budo jeru, Friday, 4 July 2025 bookmarkflaglink

Community

like everyone was in unanimous agreement that it was not only cool but righteous?

it wasn't unanimous (e.g. see Wm Penn), but the anti-racists were always a fretful minority mostly concentrated in the areas already ethnically cleansed, whereas the murderous racists operated with complete impunity at the frontiers.

Theme this year: America: We had a good run.

'celebrating' by listening to hair metal

we had a massive fireworks warehouse explosion in Northern California, that appears to have killed a bunch of people.. so I'm really not into the fireworks AT ALL this year.. also, I feel for the dogs, the poor dogs

in normal years it's probably great to celebrate our hard-won freedom from tyranny, but 2025 is not one of those years

just heard my first fireworks pop of the day, 2:51 PM

Like fools the daughter and I are in DC today trying to see the city and avoid parades and whatnot. Lotsa maga looking folks on the streets today. I saw a dude in full Captain America gear hold a sign that revealed Trump to be the red skull. Gave him a thumbs up.

The entire mall and all the stuff I wanted to show the kid was closed because of the stupid fireworks event later.

you should go to Trump's picnic

only time i went to the (national) mall on july 4 was in the late 90s and basically all i can remember is lounging on the west side of the washington monument and this large barely dressed pot-bellied guy, who was out of his mind on something, was meandering through and past everyone's blankets

and he had an outie bellybutton that was the size of a fucking silver dollar

might of already happened, but there is supposed to be a B-2 bomber flyover when he signs the Bad Bogus Bullshit Bill... straight up N Korea shit

I thought you were from the UK for some reason

Sault, Michigan fireworks very visible and audible from 'cross border to my balcony

My first fireworks pop of the day was two days ago.

It's also triggering my PTSD, although it's not as bad as it was five years ago.

After the Eaton Fire, no one here in the cities surrounding Altadena wants to do much of anything with fire and I agree with them

Attempting to trick the brain into thinking of (night six of) fireworks not as a stressor, but as an apt soundtrack for an apoplectic state.

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— 𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵 𒉭 (@angelaundead) July 4, 2025