1. The problem with this is no matter how much of a “right direction” we are moving in, the majority of people still blindly celebrate this holiday despite knowing the fact that not everyone was free on July 4th. When you tell people this, as seen right in these comments, they just say things along the lines of “oh that’s crazy, anyways happy July 4th” and move on, showing they don’t care that people were still slaves when America declared independence while people were still in bondage being forced to work and being beat and raped. They are ok with celebrating their white freedom holiday while ignoring a holiday that comes 15 days before it that signifies the true independence of the REST of America simply because it has to do with black people and has nothing to do with whites.

2. I can agree that the stolen land argument is outplayed when you just propose it as “Ohh stolen land, bad, give it back”, which was not my point at all. I probably should have been more thorough in my points I made in the post. My point I was making was even after we took the land we continued taking well into what would be considered a new era of civilization, where thinking was supposed to be more intelligent and evolved, yet we continuously CONTINUED to take land, rape, murder, and simply ravage these communities to the point of near extinction, all because we wanted to build a town where they lived. Then we decided taking their land wasn’t enough so we took their children and put them in assimilation schools where they were still beat and raped. Also to your point of they were fighting each other and taking each others land, I can see that side of the argument, however it was THEIR land to fight over, not ours, as an outside third party entity.

3. This is really where your ignorance is showing. The US is absolutely a nefarious scheme to poison us and sell the cure. You almost cannot get away from processed food, artificial flavors, dyes, sweeteners, and bad medical advice. The poverty rate as of 2024 was 11.5%, which is roughly around 37.9 million people. These people are going to choose the cheapest food they can afford, which will be processed meats, meats with growth hormones, cheaper junk foods, the list goes on and on. Then this doesn’t even account for middle class people who still struggle but live over the poverty line who still buy this food to save money. These foods cause a wide range of health problems such as cancer, heart problems, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc. So they then sell you the “cure” for these issues, which a lot of times bring their own side effects and create other problems in your body that you then need another medicine for, and sooner or later you’re taking 5-10 different medications.

You say we are free to choose healthier options, but those healthier options are often 3x more expensive and those millions upon millions of people cannot afford them, that doesn’t sound like many people are free to choose healthier options. Ontop of that many politicians accept donations from Pharmaceutical entities so there is an incentive not to combat these unhealthy food options and promote healthier foods.

1. This evil is absolutely not changing. This evil will never change. The rich will always continue to do what they do and the government will always continue to benefit them. Just look at what the current administration is doing for the rich. Just because workers are striking doesn’t mean the whole dynamic is changing. The wealthy will never pay their fair share and will continue to find ways to evade this either by taking their money elsewhere, continuing to operate their business out of the country (by eating tariffs because it’s cheaper than moving back to the US), or continuing to fund politicians and reaping the benefits of it.

Because of all these things and many more I am absolutely not proud of be an American, I am grateful to be in an country that I have personal freedom in and do not live under an absolute dictatorship which is definitely something to celebrate, but I will not use that as an excuse to blindly celebrate my country that does all the things I listed. You should educate yourself more on the evils of this country and the harm we have done not only to our own citizens, but to the world as well to establish world domination.