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~%3Atext=We+hold+these+truths+to%2Ctheir+just+powers+from+the

At this point, it’s more like a checklist to see how many amendments he can break.

Question: Do I have a choice on what controller I use?

For some reason, I imagined the controller scheme of a Wii and using the pointer controls to type each letter

No matter how much spray tan he uses, he could never take away Obama’s achievement of being the FIRST president of color.

Nah, I imagine bank robbers as classy. These thugs look like the “gang members” they’re so desperately scared of. They look like they’re hiding weapons in their pockets to cause public terror. They look like they’re about to jump me for being in their territory and mug me of all my belongings. They make me feel like I should avoid walking down whatever street they’re holding up.

These are straight up criminals, looking like they’re about to commit crime.

Dude is literally getting his parade rained on. I think even God is sending us signs

I just got one for work, and I kept giggling to myself because of this

Not to demean addicts, but is this saying that addicts are much better people than RFK BECAUSE they can get clean and learn from their mistakes

*citizens can too, but only the brown ones

This is the internet, you can say fuck. It was never meant for children under 13.

Huh, this reminded me of Five Nights at Freddy’s and how even with murderous robots around, there is a safety precaution where the doors open incase power goes out.

“Habeas Corpus is that bad thing Trump wants to get rid of. How dare you question him. You get habeas corpus!”

They died for our kinks. And after 3 days and 3 nights, we celebrate with a massive orgy

I hope this more of a “don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” and Trump recieves SOME kind of consequence. He’s been a conman for years, and at some point, CEOs should be able to see that. Like, do they really think he has THEIR best interests in mind? We’re lucky he’s even accepting that one plane as a bribe, since I expected him to sell out for the price of a big mac with fries (no drink).

Trailer Park Boys. I can never get enough of the chaos

You realize the people that don’t shut up about the 2nd ammendment, are the assholes who will join ICE for weapon upgrades

I don’t how long Hitler’s reign lasted, but for how short the Confederacy was, these losers began looking at other losers to try and become one giant loser. How our most “patriotic” nationalistic MAGA losers went to Nazism still baffles me, since the propaganda I was taught was that Naxi Germans were bad and evil.

In fact, I was taught alot of propaganda that Russia and China and Nazis are all evil monsters. Now these losers think Russia taking over Ukraine is a win, we’ve shot ourselves in the foot dealing with China and the world, and Nazis are mainstream.

Sometimes I wanna save our nation, but then I look at MAGA and how loud this “minority” is. Then you dig deeper into history and this isn’t even the first occurance this has happened in the US (concentration camps, slavery, war, citizen manipulation, etc etc)

Nuance about the police, government, and politics are gone. I used to have hope our system was initially working, and that it could be fixed. But now: I wanna burn it all down and start again like it’s 1774, or leave to someplace more empathetic where people can understand the basic concept of “don’t hurt others, hurting people is bad”

As a US person, all I’ve wanted to do is kill myself or do something drastic while doing it.

Why haven’t I? I don’t want my life to be a giant politcal statement. I don’t want to be responsible for the millions of people in the US, and the billions around the globe. I don’t want to make a mistake and inadvertly ruin my family’s life. I’m a 20 year old college student who was naively interested in electronics, only to see the tech industry is just as vile as real life.

I’m scared, I’m anxious, and I’ll admit that I’m a massive bitch. I guess I leave this comment behind because I don’t know what to do with these feelings, but I know that if I keep playing ignorant and stay silent that things will only get worst.

If this were to happen in England, I’d hope you would all hang them too. But I would understand if you don’t, because we’re all human, and I’d still like to be empathetic in these very hard times.

I dunno, I think the paramedics find the sight of you stuck in your seat a whole lot nicer than you stuck in the windshield

Seems like people already believe Canada is a US state. I dunno if I should laugh at the stupidity or cry that stupidity is winning