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It’s a day.
It’s a day of celebration! Our city hosts various public summer gatherings and activities in the annual Summer in the City program, including open-air events at the Ville de Luxembourg.
Not as much as I’d like it to.
My sister’s birthday!
Only one thing: Sun’s out = gun’s out!
(Meaning biceps of course. We have very well working gun laws in my country, and very hot summers nowadays)
It means douchebags in lifted trucks proudly displaying their complete ignorance of proper flag etiquette.
It means my cat hiding under the couch all night.
It means glazing the very institutions of authority we purportedly were to have wrested ourselves free from 250 years ago.
It means ugly, flagrant displays of nationalism from people who don’t actually believe in liberty and justice for all.
But on the bright side I get a day off and I like fireworks and it won’t cost me anything to go watch them. So I will, and I’ll pretend they’re in celebration of something noble.
My old ballet teacher’s birthday.
It means it’s going to be hot. I suppose that tells you what hemisphere it’s in.
I’m aware it’s also the 250th anniversary of the United States this year, but I don’t really care. If they were doing great things, I’d say I’m happy for them.
I’m sat at a cafe supporting a local, women-owned and LGBTQ+ owned business on my laptop browsing Lemmy. I should be writing. That’s what I do on cafe day. I’m just not in the mood.
Happy insurrection day, ungrateful colonists.
Legally being able to blow stuff up.
I get a day off work
The celebration of the independence of the United States of America, and starting a young country full of culture. It does not help though that we share a land filled with idiots who really don’t understand the definition of the Merica Irony and just blind patriotism. I love this country, because at the end of the day, I compared most of the countries and holy shit we may not be doing good at all but fuck me, the level of crazy I be seeing out there is nuts.
A movie starring Tom Cruise.
Also:
Nothing. Until the movie Independence Day, I never knew it was a thing.
Nothing. A young clearly immature nation barely out of their teen years making a ruckus about being ‘independant’. Well, prove it! Be an adult for once!!
Uh… The US government is one of the longest continually running ones. Most other countries were either formed later or had some major revolution.
The only 2 older governments I can think of are the UK and Japan
My dude, There’s a pizza place at the corner of my street older then the USA.
Ah, yes. How could I forget the most notorious country: your local pizza place
There are plenty older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation
It’s the 22nd oldest country
Not according to that wikipedia page
Literally where I got that information
Your reading comprehension is lacking.
I was referring to current governments, and even noted that revolutions change that.
“Aquisition of Sovereignty” doesn’t fit that definition.
“Date of last Subordination” is closer, but still not correct (US is #3 oldest in this category btw)
Check the 2nd section titled “List of countries by current form of government”. Aka, exactly what I was referring to. And it turns out that the only country the US government is younger than is San Marino.
Turns out that colonialism, 2 World Wars, and the Cold War weren’t particularly conducive to longevity of governments
My dude I ain’t reading all that, you’re putting way too much energy into this interaction
Are there?
Just went through each table on your link sorting by founding date, and only 1 was older than the US: San Marino, whose furrent government was formed in 1600.
