so several years ago I spent a summer working at a beach resort and I worked with this girl and we were talking about independence day, and she asked if it was celebrated in the UK. I asked if she knew what the fourth of july actually commemorated and she shook her head no, so I explained to her that it was when America, formerly a British colony, filed for divorce from the UK and started a war for independence. Her response? “Well, why wouldn’t they celebrate that?!”

thetygre:

July 3rd, 11:59 P.M.: This country is a festering cesspool
of corruption, ignorance, and violence. Every achievement is built on
the backs of millions of dead. The Founding Fathers-

July 4th, 12:00 A.M.:

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July 5th, 12:00 A.M.: -would shake their heads in shame if they could see the state of this nation.