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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

I celebrate every Independence Day on the planet, they matter way more than most other holidays

I love the Englishmen on Twitter who posted about hearing a couple guys in a barber shop grumble that “everyone else has an Independence Day, why don’t WE??” He says he lightly asked, “Oh, really? Everyone? Well, who are they are declaring independence FROM?” and skipped out the door 😃

The romans? 😂

The French

The Danes

all of the above

The French and English mutually celebrate their independence from one another.

But went like half the British monarch’s French speaking colonizing ninnies

Britain is the biggest sponsor of independence days (65!) around the globe. If they must have a national holiday, they can either overthrow the British like the rest of us (unlikely) or pick a day when the British did something particularly cool for the nationalist day.

Maybe the Scottish and Irish can start the party.

It's unlikely to actually happen, but they COULD overthrow the monarchy and claim it that way

This year? From the Tories!

England has been invaded & conquered by so many it's difficult to keep track - just a few - Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Danes (Vikings), Romans......

but most of those just stuck around. they never really left, they just became the English.

and the lowlands Scots. while also sometimes doin it with some Celtic britons

And the Brits stuck around and never really left and became Americans.

difference being the danes dint rule from copenhagen, anglo Saxons didn't rule from Anglia, Norman's didnt rule from Le Havre, so there was no "foreign" govermnt to kick out.

Yup

Did you show him the Magna Carta? You celebrate it a few days before Juneteenth. Gonna have to wait for next year.

God willing someday the Saxons will throw off the yoke of their Norman masters and then they’ll have one too

From the hord of barbarians, of course.

Russians, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Belgians, Italians...

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I certainly will!

I dont think American "Independence Day" hits the same way as other colonies. Like "America" is still occupied. American "independence" led to settler colonialism.

Yeah it also lead to us not being under British control.

But you were British, all those colonies were stuffed full of Brits. Unless you have some Native American blood you are descended from colonists.

Swiss actually.

you should be ashamed of yourself for taking sides

Not to mention a massive chunk of what's now the continental U.S. wasn't even Anglo, but Spanish. For hundreds of years before Anglos.

Yeah...I know. I live in New Mexico.

And French, and Dutch, and so on; Brits like saying they were the only ones - they weren't. F - a lot of people trace their ancestry back to the sailors on the mayflower - 30 crew - none died, 102 pilgrims - 1 died bef reaching land, 50 died that first winter. Many pilgrims came from Netherlands.

My family came way after

Not a week goes by without an independence from Britain day somewhere

Mexican is bigger than US independence for me bc the US continued settler colonialism but Mexican independence helped the Union crush the traitors

Hell yeah

Strangely, Ireland's Independence Day was 6 December 1922 but it's not a national holiday. The civil war among compatriots ran from June '22 to May '23. The form of independence was felt to be too controversial and bitterly fought over to commemorate as a celebration.

My one question is: How's your liver health? You gotta pace all that celebrating.

I love this

Okay this is fair. As a Canadian I’ve never really had the chance… I’m from a country that’s 1/3 wannabe British, 1/3 wannabe French, and 1/3 really wishes the rest of us had never arrived…

that's a very Canadian way to grapple with independence though lol

Apologetically?

one of my favorite Kate Beaton comics

Hi it’s my grandma 😂

I love it: does anyone in Canada really love the monarchy? Hardly anyone. But replacing it would end up opening all these unseemly, difficult questions, so, well, better to just keep the status quo even if it's a bit embarrassing. Like Quebecois separatists not wanting constitutional repatriation.