• LupusBlackfur
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    3 months ago

    FFS…

    Actually found something even more gaudy, tacky, and embarrassing than hosting a car dealership on WH grounds or forcing a military parade for a birthday…

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    3 months ago

    I hate living in this stupid trashy country. Fuck the Fourth of July.

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        3 months ago

        With the amount of damage it does to local ecosystems (like birds), nah. It also traumatizes many veterans with PTSD.

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          Ya know, I had a thought about this yesterday. The sound of fireworks isn’t traumatic for me, but it’s easier to tell people that as the reason I won’t celebrate the 4th rather than telling them I’m deeply disgusted by our actions on both the global and domestic stage and I am ashamed to be an American, not proud. It’s easy to say here on lemmy, but no amount of “being a hero” in the past will prevent the communities veterans tend to be part of from ostracizing you if you question the myth of American greatness.

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    3 months ago

    It’s stupid and tacky so of course he would.

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    3 months ago

    I am surprised he didnt want it for his birthday