Lol. Ok. Good talk.

None of your post has anything to do with why the holiday is named “Independence Day.” The blog post wonders why the date is even named that, attributes a nebulous concept to its naming, and based on this incorrect reading, proposes the name be changed. That is what I have been responding to. This is the opposite of…

Wow.

Read what I’ve written again. I’m responding to specific things, largely in the article itself. It isn’t pedantic; it is accurate, and the reason the name of the holiday doesn’t need a change.

This is all true information that has absolutely nothing to do with independence day and why it is named independence day. There is nothing disingenuous about the name of the holiday—it is named for something that indisputably happened and makes no commentary on anything other than that.

Sure I haven’t.

Yes—not pedantry at all, we clearly can’t assume people know basic things any more. I should have been more specific.

Why don’t we skip to the part where you reveal why you’ve incorrectly assumed I haven’t read it. Should be fun. Have at it.

My mind’s a little blown, not gonna lie. I never even saw Hamilton! :)

Who got their independence?

Not just that, but the holiday, despite what a bunch of chodes have turned it into, is commemorating the anniversary of that declaration of independence and *not* some imagined subsequent American exceptionalism.

I am all for criticizing the places this country falls woefully short, and I have no problem highlighting these instances in any way a person sees fit.

The thing that confuses the hell out of me, having not seen the film, is this—for better or worse, the Beatles had a seismic impact on how rock formed itself from the 60s on, and how pop culture took shape as well. How we relate to our favorites, how we relate to our least favorites, the whole thing.

We were told, growing up, that the burnt hot dogs, sweaty macaroni salads, and underripe watermelons were patriotic. It had to do with independence! Or something about the troops. Maybe it was the founding fathers? Fireworks!

The cover for the single (album?) with Corinne and Janet flanking Carrie with that bizarre butt shot/ stare into the camera bit was something on those lines too.

White dude checking in here: fucking yes to all of this. I’m fucking sick to death of literally every one of us!

Couldn’t agree more. If I hear one more white liberal Boomer whine and tell me they just don’t like how “they” make everything “racial” I’m going to explode.

He’s an old Red Sox t-shirt with holes all over it, coming apart at the seams

It is literally brain poison. Fox is a whole other animal of awful but it is all brain poison. I never, ever put that shit on my TV, even for an instant. I hate that its on at the gym. It is bad for everyone’s mental health to watch it.

Chris Matthews will always be the Awful White Boomer Liberal personified to me.