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      They take pride in how they’ve convinced themselves they don’t. That kind of doublethink can’t be pulled off by just anybody.

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        It can if your target demographic has been consistently consuming lead and avoiding therapy for their entire lives.

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    The Fireworks were more subdued this year where I live.

    I don’t know if it was because people are ashamed of what we’ve become or that the tarrifs have put people in a pinch. Or both.

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        I bought $200 worth of fireworks 20-ish years ago and have never used them. its like 50 mortars and a fuckton of firecrackers.

        honestly, I never used them because I lost faith in my country back then. anything I feel for my country now resembles a dried up desiccated corpse.

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      It was the opposite in SLC, fireworks were going off all over for a good 5-6 hours. I surmised everyone was just lighting off all the stock they had since tariffs and drones are going to make them more expensive and dangerous than they’re worth.

      Still got a pile of bottle rockets and Roman candles in the closet but lately I feel more like pointing them at masked white dudes than doing anything to celebrate America

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    It’s not meant to be.
    I/we shit on America’s residents a lot, but there are several things to be proud of as a decent American. Start with Ben Franklin.