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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

It's the perfect time to reiterate that we won't suffer kings.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I mean yeah, fuck kings, but IMO we really need to stop tolerating presidents too ๐Ÿด๐Ÿด๐Ÿด

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know America is a giant cesspool right now, but I still like to cling onto the values and lessons I was raised on as a kid.

Today on 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by congress and the United States was born. I was taught that the founding fathers were fighting for freedom, liberty, representation. These were the first Americans who wanted to be heard and declared themselves a new nation from one of the biggest empires in the world.

Now there are multiple opinions on the past, present, and future of the US, but I was raised on the notion that the American spirit means standing up for ourselves. This nation is for the people, and we will not listen to any tyrants. To quote the actual document in question:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Source: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript#%3A%7E%3Atext=We+hold+these+truths+to%2Ctheir+just+powers+from+the

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm celebrating making a plan to get the fuck out.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Good. More people need to follow suit.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Okay but will you take us? Where are we supposed to go?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

If you find out, let me know.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

The 2nd amendment, at least for now.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It's a bit late now but tomorrow would be perfect for an massive uprising against Trump and the oligarchs

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Nothing because we never had anything to celebrate

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The only correct answer.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well, I'm sure there will be no shortage of "at least the libs were owned" going on this weekend.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
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