#american independence

[alwaysbewoke]

Did you know that the famous line "And what the hell is that smell?" from 'Independence Day' was improvised by Will Smith? While filming the scene on the salt flat near the Great Salt Lake in Utah, nobody warned him about the strong odor caused by billions of decomposing brine shrimp in the lake.⁠

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[emilythedog661-tf2]

American Day Date

Soldier asks Engineer out on a 'American Themed' Date which was then having a evening picnic and then watching the fireworks display 😊

(Happy american independence day to all you american, i'm british so i don't celebrate the day but i know about it 😁)

[professor-venturer-mod]

HOPPY 4TH OF JULY MOTHERFUCKERS

[stone-cold-groove]

Cover illustration detail from The American Weekly magazine - July 4, 1948.

[ifwebefriends]

My problem with July 4th is that it’s all one flag, one color palette. At pride, there’s dozens of different colors and flags around, it’s more exciting. July 4th enthusiasts need to branch out

[thinkbolt]

Bunker Hill Bunny (WB, 1949) dir. Friz Freleng

[animatejournal]

Yankee Doodle Cricket Director: Chuck Jones | USA, 1975

[mayday396]

Regulus from Reverse 1999 is basically

"Born to be an American on the 4th of July, forced to be a Brit"

[ausetkmt]

‘ ‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech  | NPR

[konzenkoryuu]

"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

"He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers."

"He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries."

"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation"

"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers . . . whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

Who did you think I was talking about here? Who was the first person that came to mind on reading that? I was revisiting the actual Declaration of Independence for America's birthday...a document some 248 years old, and several of the crimes we charged King George with sound suspiciously familiar to a current former president, just changing a word here and there to match modern times.

This came to mind today when I was watching the musical 1776. Granted, it is historical fiction. However, as I was watching, the dissenters for American Independence were sounding familiar, and it finally occurred to me that people who were against American Independence were saying the same things then that the modern Republican party is now. And if your modern, 2024 political party sounds like the slightly fictionalized version of people who were against American Independence...

I will leave you with the song that Richard Nixon wanted cut from the musical because he thought it would give Republicans a bad name. And I will leave you with one last quote from the Declaration:

"A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

[kindercelery]

Happy independence day to all Americans and Filipinos :3

[i-give-u--art]

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!! 🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🦅🦅🦅🦅

[ft. Fox (my sister)]

[secretlykim]

[stone-cold-groove]

Stock up for July 4th!

[maysshortmoviereviews]

Franklin (2024 -)

Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklin's career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778.

A really interesting series and a side of history I was not too familiar with. It has definitely made me want to read more about the American War of Independence and America's Founding Fathers. I really enjoyed the diplomacy, the agreements, and the espionage aspects of the series, but I found the side stories involving Temple Franklin's friend and their parties very boring. I would have preferred the series to be shorter, with more time spent on politics. I am also now quite keen to read up on Marquis de Lafayette. It was interesting to see the seeds for the French Revolution being sown. Overall, it is a very good series and worth checking out. It is not a fast-paced story, but it is still very enjoyable.

[anthony-usa-today]