It’s 250 years of freedom for white men only.
It’s 106 years of voting freedom for white women.
It’s 72 years of voting freedom for Asian immigrants.
It’s 61 years of voting freedom for Black people.
It’s 51 years of voting rights for Native Peoples, but we all know that’s a farce when their lands were stripped from them and their ways of life were classified illegal.
It’s 10 years of marriage freedom for queer couples.
It’s 0 years of voting freedom for Puerto Ricans.
@TristanKPugwash@SamaHoole Did you see Ken Burn's American Revolution? Great series. 2 points: 1) Redcoat Grenadiers used to lead charges. Elite troops, taller than average, they wore tall fur hats & shoulder pads to look even bigger. 2) They wrecked us with bayonets until we also learned how to use them.
Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars. Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. All we want is clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
250, y'all. Thinkin' about the melting pot today. Folks who came here outta hope or by force. Folks who were already here, minding their own damn business. All of us in this sometimes rocky boat, trying to make it work. I love y'all. Let's keep meltin' and whatnot.
On this July 4th, with #FIFAWorldCup delighting the globe here on North American soil, consider this beautiful fact: In every stadium, at every game, there is at least 1 native-born American citizen supporting every team, tied to that nation by immigrant ancestors.
#Happy4thJuly
To all the MAGA fucks telling people not to celebrate the Fourth of July if they oppose Trump...
We celebrate the Founding of the United States, not loyalty to one president.
That's kind of the whole point.
On America's 250th birthday, remember that less than 6 months ago, civilians were hunted down and executed on the street in broad daylight in a U.S. city occupied by armed federal agents in masks.
If you display the confederate flag at any time during the year, you should not be celebrating July 4th because you actually support the traitors that tried to prevent this country from existing.
Socialism is a scare word they've used for every good thing to happen in society since the 1950's. At some point, you become the boy who cried socialist.
Hilarious coming from the South African Space Nazi who would have nothing if he hadn’t been born into a fortune in Apartheid blood emerald money and handed billions of taxpayer dollars. And Elon Musk hasn’t built shit. He just slapped his name on other people’s accomplishments.
@ThatEricAlper Maybe they are listening to the lyrics. Maybe they understand pointed critique is necessary now more than ever. Maybe they see through the propaganda, haven't drunk the Kool-aid, and are comforted by knowing they're not crazy, they're not alone, that others see the problems, too.