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       2025-07-04T18:11:38Z
       
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       With a surprising amount of people wishing a happy 4th of July (or at least using patriotic tones to advocate against fascism in the US), I thought I'd add my two cents.As someone whose ancestors were among the first in New Amsterdam/New York in the 1650s, who fought for the colonies in the American Revolution, who fought for the Union during the American Civil War, yet were never very wealthy or powerful, I speak as someone who is about as much of a cultural product of the American project as one can be.My ancestors were wrong to colonize these lands and genocide the Native Americans, as wrong as those currently genociding the Palestinians are today. The founding leaders of the United States transitioned us from monarchy to a capitalist oligarchy, a similarly regressive system that will be the death of many more of us if we don't resist it effectively.I'm not particularly close to my extended family, but I have blood relatives who are Mexican, Black, and even Israeli. It has never been more obvious how deeply we are all interconnected. It pains me that the United States never lived up to the ideals of freedom and equality it always claimed to uphold.I think it is naive to expect the US judiciary or existing democratic structures to get us out of this mess, when those structures put us here. It is my hope that a new world is (painfully) being born, and that it will be a world I will be proud to call home in my old age.#USpol #fascism #Palestine #democracy #4thOfJuly #capitalism