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A certain Empire was certainly busy once upon a time!
Keep fighting and voting my fellow Americans!
We're 247 years into this and we're not all free until we all have rights!!!
GanondorfLink
#7 So it's a scale where the lower you are the more free you are?
Lampmonster
#4 Seriously, feel like my neighborhood has been at war for three fucking days now. Glad I don't have a nervous dog and am not a veteran with PTSD.
zanaria
You know, I just realized that the shape of Texas looks quite similar to the hand of a moron who held the firework too long....
ImCommanderShepardandthisismyfavoritepostonthefrontpage
#2 good point. Gonna go drink some sweet tea like a true american
PortableTractor
I like that meme doing the rounds of "America was known as the land of the free, which must have been co fusing for all their slaves"
spacestationnumberfive
newsguycraigevans
fishbicyclerepairman
Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. - J. Harrington
AbhainnFuil
If you had stuck with Britain, you’d have 28 days paid leave, minimum, 52 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave, waiters would be paid by the employer and free healthcare. But I guess having mass shootings every day, KKK cops, no codified right to abortion, child marriage and being packed off to work at the meat plant at 14 is adequate compensation for your loss. Well done.
OppaGangnamPyle
Go ahead and take a day off from killing each other with guns so you can mangle hands.
ApparentlyIcantcomeupwithavalidusername
Ireland gained independence in 1922. 1916 was the Easter Rising
urrugtheorc
Australia was federated in 1901. 1931 was the Statute of Westminster, and that wasn't adopted by Australia until 1942 anyway. There's also an argument to be made that independence wasn't achieved until the Australia Acts of 1986, or that we still aren't technically independent.
BonafideHomicide
#12 I was sitting here like, HOW DOES THAT SPELL "LOVE???" Oh... Nevermind...
JustEatTheDamOranges
#2 Stay free from something that no longer exists (while your country is the modern equivalent)...... ok
noccymcchunkchunk
If you’re having healthcare problems I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but medical debt ain’t one 🇬🇧
SwissScars
pity US couldn't pay taxes,,, good to see that they preserve the privilege for those poor deserving billionaires.
AbhainnFuil
#1 That’s Trumps motto. You guys should make up your minds, either you’re for the violent overthrow of a legitimate government or you’re not.
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
#2 Funny choice of words, considering his slave ownership.
SophieClockwise
Come on now, we have to let Americans have this *one* day so that they can pretend the other 364 days aren't full of, you know, *gestures at everything on fire, getting shot, being arrested, and dying from deliberately withheld support services (not necessarily in that order)*.
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
You think today is any different?
TI99Kitty
Right? Today is the same as any other day, but with more fireworks, flags, and cookouts.
TussleTheCat
And blown up fingers.
SinisterSlaw
The winners are always "revolutionaries" while the looser are usually if not always the "traitors". Thats kind of how history works its written by the victors. Its all about your perspective.
Dogstar23
Is it really winning if you have to ally with the French...
AndrewBuggy
You fled Europe to escape Kings and religious persecution. Now you have the most religious nutjobs on the planet and are run by Oligarchs.
6313326
The spiral into fanaticism and oligarchy seems to be humanity's version of entropy.
stopitcharlesgetoutofmyhead
The funny thing is that the Puritans went to America so that they could persecute and that taxation without representation only applied to the extremely wealthy and overrepresented.
jfitz
"It's only treason if you lose". Uh, I think the jury is still out on whether you won anything.
DudeMagoo
"FREE" lol
jimbobular
You'll be back
RelentlessDevastation
Shit don't give the red hats anymore ideas
pocketcthulhu
@op absofuckinglutely
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
“Quality of leadership in any revolution is difficult to assess by any criterion other than the eventual outcome.”
2old4
Our future is looking questionable right now...
snikpmupgnihsamseht
Could have had healthcare, instead we got "freedom" to die.
Guttfunk
Well you have a ridiculously large army as well.
Codecomp
It's horrible, I sent a message to my GP and the bastard phoned me, prescribed my medicine and had it delivered the same day for an insanely expensive £9! Please America, free us from the crippling horrors of our healthcare bills!
mas0chist
USA! USA! USA!
IONE007
"Give me Liberty or give me death." We got both.
davcam
You get Life, Liberty or the Pursuit of Happiness.
snikpmupgnihsamseht
We only get to pursue happiness though, we aren't allowed to obtain happiness.
davcam
You get to live but not with happiness or with liberties.
DreadzkieOnTwitch
Happy freedom day to all my British friends
iMcFly
Gorgoror
ChazzK
It came true... For people whose dream was "own everything myself and fuck everyone else"
DickbuttPrivate
Damn it wasn't too long ago. My grandpa worked through school all the way through his PHD and did it without needed extra years in school or loans and then bought a 2 story house and a brand new car his first year of working as a teacher. Just a music teacher. Just a dude who liked to play saxophone would have had to be a millionaire to do that these days. He said it wasn't even hard. We FUCKED ourselves.
LuLuPennyAndOdium44
It was the progeny of the greatest generation that brought us here. Decades of unfettered conservatism.
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dudedude09
Maybe the Brits will come save us from the fascism “patriots” now?
fireclanninja1337
They've been playing the same stupid ass game we have since the 80s. No one is coming to save us. We're the enemy of half the world.
ChloeRed
We are having problems with our own. We're in no state to save anyone.
tygerpsimatrix
Although it's kind of ironic that our King is making plans for social housing and such while the politicians are screwing the poor.
Artebudz
When the monarchs seem to care abkut the people more than the elected officials...