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If America happened in America, America would be indefinitely detained without a trial.
May we long remember the day when we overthrew a corrupt foreign power...
Let's hear it for homegrown corrupt leadership!
Huzzah! Huzzah!
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on July 05, 2013, 04:29:16 AM
May we long remember the day when we overthrew a corrupt foreign power...
Let's hear it for homegrown corrupt leadership!
Huzzah! Huzzah!
Hey, it sounded like a good idea at the time.
And they didn't technically overthrow Britain with the Declaration, it took quite few more years.
Quote from: Suu on July 05, 2013, 04:32:44 AM
And they didn't technically overthrow Britain with the Declaration, it took quite few more years.
True that.
We defeated a better trained (maybe) and better equipped (definitely) army through a war of attrition.
While drunk.
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on July 05, 2013, 12:37:09 PM
Quote from: Suu on July 05, 2013, 04:32:44 AM
And they didn't technically overthrow Britain with the Declaration, it took quite few more years.
True that.
We defeated a better trained (maybe) and better equipped (definitely) army through a war of attrition.
While drunk.
No, it was most definitely not attrition. For the most part, we hid in the woods until the war became too expensive for the British to continue.
REAL PATRIOTS WEAR DISGUISES AND CAUSE MASSIVE PROPERTY DAMAGE.
REAL PATRIOTS TAUNT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INTO THE USE OF DEADLY FORCE AND THEN CREATE PROPAGANDA ABOUT THE EVENT TO SUPPORT THEIR CAUSE.
REAL PATRIOTS ASSURE MINORITY GROUPS THAT THEIR GRIEVANCES WILL BE ADDRESSED AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 05, 2013, 02:46:46 PM
REAL PATRIOTS ASSURE MINORITY GROUPS THAT THEIR GRIEVANCES WILL BE ADDRESSED AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
:lulz:
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 05, 2013, 02:30:20 PM
REAL PATRIOTS TAUNT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INTO THE USE OF DEADLY FORCE AND THEN CREATE PROPAGANDA ABOUT THE EVENT TO SUPPORT THEIR CAUSE.
REAL POLICE SEND IN AGENTS TO HELP THIS ALONG.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 05, 2013, 02:54:02 PM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on July 05, 2013, 02:30:20 PM
REAL PATRIOTS TAUNT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INTO THE USE OF DEADLY FORCE AND THEN CREATE PROPAGANDA ABOUT THE EVENT TO SUPPORT THEIR CAUSE.
REAL POLICE SEND IN AGENTS TO HELP THIS ALONG.
Red coats didn't need to bother with that shit. Modern protesters are sissies.
Happy "war-debt default (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War#Outcome)" day, colonials.
Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!
WOOOOOT THAT LIMEY OLD QUEEN CAN'T TELL US WHAT TO DO!
OTOH, people in Canada seem perfectly happy. :|
Quote from: stelz on July 05, 2013, 09:03:12 PM
WOOOOOT THAT LIMEY OLD QUEEN CAN'T TELL US WHAT TO DO!
OTOH, people in Canada seem perfectly happy. :|
DERE KWEEN ALIZABITH:
WE WERE ONLY JOKING. CAN WE COME HOME NOW?
YERS TRULLY,
JAMES MADISON
Quote from: FRIDAY TIME on July 05, 2013, 07:03:07 PM
Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!
I went shopping for fireworks today determined to find something that was, if not made in the U.S., at least not Made in China.
I found nothing and went home empty handed.
Quote from: Emo Howard on July 05, 2013, 11:16:21 PM
Quote from: FRIDAY TIME on July 05, 2013, 07:03:07 PM
Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!
I went shopping for fireworks today determined to find something that was, if not made in the U.S., at least not Made in China.
I found nothing and went home empty handed.
Fireworks have always been made in China. They INVENTED fireworks.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 06, 2013, 02:14:01 AM
Quote from: Emo Howard on July 05, 2013, 11:16:21 PM
Quote from: FRIDAY TIME on July 05, 2013, 07:03:07 PM
Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!
I went shopping for fireworks today determined to find something that was, if not made in the U.S., at least not Made in China.
I found nothing and went home empty handed.
Fireworks have always been made in China. They INVENTED fireworks.
Yeah, I know. That doesn't stop it from ruining it for me.
It's not the "in China" part that bothers me so much as the "by severely underpaid peasants with no rights in probably horrible working conditions with little concern for safety other than that needed to keep the facilities and inventory from exploding... maybe" part.
In celebration of "Freedom", of course.
Quote from: Emo Howard on July 06, 2013, 02:44:35 AM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 06, 2013, 02:14:01 AM
Quote from: Emo Howard on July 05, 2013, 11:16:21 PM
Quote from: FRIDAY TIME on July 05, 2013, 07:03:07 PM
Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!
I went shopping for fireworks today determined to find something that was, if not made in the U.S., at least not Made in China.
I found nothing and went home empty handed.
Fireworks have always been made in China. They INVENTED fireworks.
Yeah, I know. That doesn't stop it from ruining it for me.
It's not the "in China" part that bothers me so much as the "by severely underpaid peasants with no rights in probably horrible working conditions with little concern for safety other than that needed to keep the facilities and inventory from exploding... maybe" part.
In celebration of "Freedom", of course.
That's nonsense. Just because fireworks are made in conditions that diametrically oppose to the conditions they have come to symbolize in America is no reason to point fingers at people who use them to symbolize freedom. I mean, you have to have some kind of symbol for freedom, and no matter what you do that symbol is going to be mass-manufactured by people who have no access to that freedom. The idea is more important than the reality anyway. In fact, maybe if you buy enough fireworks and display them prominently enough, that idea of freedom will spread all the way to the fireworks factory where it can be appreciated by those workers. Through the window, of course.
I was just thinking more along the lines of it being one of the few heritage industries in China that's been located there since its invention and is highly unlikely to take off anywhere else, both due to secrecy of the formulas and methods and due to the fact that no one else is going to be able to compete price-wise.
Sort of like Italian glass.
I do wish that the True Patriots of 'MERICA had the capacity to sense dilemmas. They might think twice about the weird paradox of buying fireworks from foreign companies (or domestic ones who outsource all their labor) to celebrate the greatness of America. Sadly their brains are overpowered by shiny objects as it is, so things that shine AND explode? The poor saps have no chance.
Quote from: V3X on July 06, 2013, 03:20:30 AM
I do wish that the True Patriots of 'MERICA had the capacity to sense dilemmas. They might think twice about the weird paradox of buying fireworks from foreign companies (or domestic ones who outsource all their labor) to celebrate the greatness of America. Sadly their brains are overpowered by shiny objects as it is, so things that shine AND explode? The poor saps have no chance.
That, and all the cheap Chinese-made shit in WalMart and Dollar General. You know, the JERB CREEATERS.
Oh, and Dok:
:spittake:
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 06, 2013, 03:12:07 AM
I was just thinking more along the lines of it being one of the few heritage industries in China that's been located there since its invention and is highly unlikely to take off anywhere else, both due to secrecy of the formulas and methods and due to the fact that no one else is going to be able to compete price-wise.
Sort of like Italian glass.
They are
authentic. I'll give them that.
Quote from: V3X on July 06, 2013, 03:20:30 AM
I do wish that the True Patriots of 'MERICA had the capacity to sense dilemmas. They might think twice about the weird paradox of buying fireworks from foreign companies (or domestic ones who outsource all their labor) to celebrate the greatness of America. Sadly their brains are overpowered by shiny objects as it is, so things that shine AND explode? The poor saps have no chance.
:lulz:
Just thought I'd look this up...
http://www.fmaa-usa.com/resources_links/usflag_statistics.php
Quote$3.8 million
In 2012, the dollar value of U.S. imports of American flags. The vast majority of this amount ($3.6 million) was for U.S. flags made in China.
We are so screwed.
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