• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Sux2B them.

    What’s there to celebrate? We’re 250 years in with a pedophile at the helm and average Americans being robbed blind. We’re pathetic.

  • limonfiesta@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    lol gutting Patriot Party 250 bucks to small town red America might be the only good thing DOGE did.

    At minimum, it’s pretty fucking hilarious.

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    21 hours ago

    To be honest, small towns are my favorite places to celebrate the 4th of July. You drive down to the high school parking lot (or middle school if they’ve only got the one) around 8:55 PM. Then you sit and wait 20 minutes or go mingle for 20 minutes if you’re in the mood for it that night. You get 1 or 2 minutes of wind up where they’re still trying to figure out how everything works, and then 10 minutes of the big stuff. A 20 second finale, and then you just crank the car up and drive home.

    And if you were the mingling type then you’d have found out about all the new medications Cindy Peterson is taking now and also you’d know that Gina and Henry got remarried back in March.

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      19 hours ago

      I have a lot of halcyon memories of 4th celebrations in smalltown midwest too but more because it was a night to get drunk and get laid. Now I’m sober and basically celibate and I legit didn’t watch the fireworks last night. Weird how time switches things around on you.

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        21 hours ago

        The main revolution I want to see is the rejection of ideas/cultures that isolate and divide us. I think if people are able to push past apathy and fear, we can make our communities and lives a lot more caring and growthful.

        Lots of other things need to change, but personal responsibility and stewardship of your own community can produce tangible results, show others that we don’t have to live in constant fear and anger, and eventually lead to more positive change.