stupid fucking holiday
July 4th (America's Independence Day) is a stupid fucking holiday.
The positive side of it is - some people get time off work, we hang out with friends & family, we eat good food1. A lot of people also enjoy the fireworks - I do too. But also some people are traumatized by fireworks & so are some pets.
But the thing that made me really hate this holiday was seeing a post from my white supremacist congresswoman who said something about how in 1776 we got "liberty".
And like, ... no "we" didn't. Wealthy land owning white men got liberty. Black people weren't legally considered real people. Women couldn't vote. Etc Etc.
It's just hard to celebrate a country that was founded on exclusion, a country that gaslights us into believing it's built on inclusion, a country that commits endless war crimes, a country that calls others terrorists while calling its own terrorists "soldiers" and "presidents" ... Not a fan.