Everyone is just there for cake and a chance to see the spoiled birthday kid get hamiliated in front of everyone.
Birthdays in general. ‘Oh, your parents had freaky BDSM edgeplay sex and 9 months later you popped out? Wasn’t that great, we should do that again soon. Oh the freaky sex, not the baby stuff. But to celebrate our freaky sex remembrance, here is some cake and a card with a fold-out diagram of all the positions we tried that night. We didn’t have a camcorder back then, too bad really…’
I’m American, and I can genuinely say I feel absolutely nothing about the 250th anniversary. Any vestiges of patriotism I had have been pretty effectively amputated over the last 25 years or so.
Ya and 99% of us will never get any cake.
I feel sad. When I think about what this country could have become…
Despite what the news says, on an individual level we are overwhelmingly a nation of friendly, hardworking people. Can you imagine how truly great we would be if we had been programmed to genuinely work together using our differences to make us strong instead of weak, if the concept of “liberty and justice for all” didn’t actually mean rich white people only, and if we had taken all the billions and trillions of dollars floating around and invested it into education, healthcare, infrastructure and useful technology for the people, and if we shared our wealth with other nations and invited people from other nations in to benefit from our strengths instead of starving our people and spending our wealth on things for the rich and powerful few as well as bombing school children in random countries we’re mad at today.
This country could be the best, happiest, most respected nation on earth where riches abound and we share the wealth with other nations simply because a happy, healthy, well educated workforce is going to be a far more productive workforce, but those in power are too fucking greedy and they can make their money keeping people poor, sick, and squabbling with those around them so they do that because this way they don’t have to share and risk anyone else being rich and happy too. They have their cake and they don’t even have to lose it, but they’re too immature to want the masses to also be able to enjoy cake.
They understand that’s their position is by chance. In a parallel universe with the exactly sent things happening, there’s still a chance they’d have nothing they have here. They’re terrified of losing what they have, not understanding that would make them free, losing everything. Plus, I genuinely believe they’re simply dumb enough to not understand many simple things.
party hard, it might be the last one.
It will be the last 250th birthday of the usa…and the last 251st…
If it was the 100th, the 200th, or even the 300th I would get it. But the 250th? That literally means nothing. It’s like celebrating my 25th birthday as if it’s as big a deal as my 21st or 30th. In reality I don’t even remember my 25th birthday because nobody, including myself, gave a shit.
I’m pretty sure it’s literally just because the majority of those in power right now won’t be alive for the 300th birthday and they just picked the next best looking number they found find.
The big “birthdays” of cities, universities, etc. are always 250, 500, 750 etc.
With Trump taking the spoiled child lead.
Though that’s a role he plays every day.
It’s their 243rd birthday. The USA wasn’t given independence until 1783
The U.S. was never given independence.
The Declaration of Independence wasn’t asking for it. It was stating it as established fact:
“We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”
It would have been different if Britain had won the war, but they didn’t.
It would have been nice if we managed to do better with the independence we have, but that doesn’t change the reality.
Typical Yankee woke nonsense.
So it only counts if the British agree to it?
Yes.
Sounds like edging but for geopolitics
It’s 243 years old
get hamiliated in front of everyone
I’d love to see Trump hamiliated in front of everyone
He might like that too. I bet he likes ham.
He is ham.
The USA has the oldest written constitution in the world, as far as I know.
It could be worth celebrating, but it is in desperate need of extensive revisions for the 21st century.
If I was still in charge you lot wouldn’t need a sodding constitution. I am a very modern man!
“No! Those racist, drug-addled, perpetually drunk rich assholes wrote the PERFECT document that must NEVER be changed!” - America
no its fine, they changed it with amendments. surely over the years they’ve had a bunch of changes
only 27 amendments
the 18th and 21st amendments just cancel each other out
the most recent amendment was 34 years ago, and was proposed in 1789
yep, amendments are keeping up with the times
