Happy Birthday to the Indispensible Nation

[tommy525]

4th here haven’t heard any bangs yet.

[Dr_Milker]

@tommy525

haven’t heard any bangs yet

Sounds like you and your wife need to get busy.

[anon76032781]

@tommy525

4th here haven’t heard any bangs yet.

Wait til nighttime. but you already know that I’m sure.

[bojack]

Anybody in the US headed out to any big fireworks shows tonight? I know there’s a huge show in DC. Anything in California? Or?

[tommy525]

Buncha fireworks in different spots

[OysterOmelet]

There’s a big one in DC tonight complete with a orchestra, but I’m leaving for Chicago.

[Dr_Milker]

@bojack

Anybody in the US headed out to any big fireworks shows tonight?

I’ll be celebrating with earplugs and an Advil.

@tommy525

Buncha fireworks in different spots

Hopefully some of them not obscured by fog. I remember hearing fireworks in the Bay Area, but rarely seeing them.

[Gain]

@OysterOmelet

The U.S. is the longest-standing democracy in the world.

That is not true.

What is the world’s oldest democracy?

The title of oldest continuously functioning democracy is more hotly contested. Iceland, the Faroe Islands and the Isle of Man all have local parliaments founded in the ninth and 10th centuries, when Vikings pillaged, plundered and set up legislative bodies on the sea-islands of far northern Europe. Iceland’s national parliament, the Althing, dates back to A.D. 930, but it spent centuries under Norwegian and Danish rule. Man and the Faroes, meanwhile, remain dependencies of the United Kingdom and Denmark, respectively.

@OysterOmelet

It has been the most successful in creating a common identity based on freedom (this administration notwithstanding).

This freedom is just a rhetoric. In what ways has America been freer than other countries? I can only think of the guns.

@OysterOmelet

Not to mention defeating totalitarian regimes abroad.

Only when it suits your interests.

[OysterOmelet]

@Gain

@OysterOmelet

The U.S. is the longest-standing democracy in the world.

That is not true.
What is the world’s oldest democracy?

The title of oldest continuously functioning democracy is more hotly contested. Iceland, the Faroe Islands and the Isle of Man all have local parliaments founded in the ninth and 10th centuries, when Vikings pillaged, plundered and set up legislative bodies on the sea-islands of far northern Europe. Iceland’s national parliament, the Althing, dates back to A.D. 930, but it spent centuries under Norwegian and Danish rule. Man and the Faroes, meanwhile, remain dependencies of the United Kingdom and Denmark, respectively.

@OysterOmelet

It has been the most successful in creating a common identity based on freedom (this administration notwithstanding).

This freedom is just a rhetoric. In what ways has America been freer than other countries? I can only think of the guns.

@OysterOmelet

Not to mention defeating totalitarian regimes abroad.

Only when it suits your interests.

You can’t wait till tomorrow to do your fact-checking? I’ll wait till tomorrow to offer a rebuttal.

In the meantime, let freedom ring.

[tommy525]

Yup best one I ever saw was when my bud had this apt high up and it overlooked one of the fireworks barges at the pier

Talk about a ring side seat
That was unbeatable

Otherwise seeing the fireworks in sf involved standing with a huge glob of people in the cold waiting for 9pm

And walking miles from your car

Not doing that again

Apparently the retired aircraft carrier anchored in alameda has a special today

Bands playing Americana music and fireworks being set off near by all for 25 a head

But wife wants to go to the mall instead

Of course

[Gain]

It is tomorrow now. I think you mean the morning.

[OysterOmelet]

Not in the united States.

[Rockefeller]

Fireworks at the Dodger Stadium

[DrewC]

I didn’t hear a single firework in Kaohsiung. Only nonstop, torrential rains pissing down from the heavens all day.

[the_bear]

@OysterOmelet

let freedom ring

If your glorious democracy produces a cunt like Trump as generalissimo…well I don’t even know how to end this.

[Dr_Milker]

@the_bear

I don’t even know how to end this.

Like this.

[rowland]

[the_bear]

Can’t see any Harley Davidson’s in that pic.

[Dr_Milker]

They’re shitty motorcycles anyway. There, I said it. Harley-Davidson has been flirting with bankruptcy for years, and for good reason. I’ll take a rice burner over a Hog any day.

[the_bear]

In my opinion, there’s nothing in this world
Beats a '52 Vincent and a Redheaded girl.
Now Nortons and Indians and Greavses won’t do.
Oh, they don’t have a Soul like a Vincent '52