Happy Independence Day America! :D

Muto · 2018-07-04T22:43:39.000Z

WHATEVER

This just in, there is just one USA.
No North, South, East or West.

Just the effing USA, United We stand,
Divided we Fall.

And we ain’t gonna fall.
HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE !!!

AlexGT · 2018-07-04T22:46:17.000Z

Happy 4th of july…!!! :partying_face:

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

NeutralFan · 2018-07-04T23:46:19.000Z

Happy 4th of July!

RobertB · 2018-07-04T23:50:33.000Z

And people wonder why people hate facebook

Big League Politics – 4 Jul 18

Facebook Flags Declaration of Independence Text as 'Hate Speech' - Big League...

A tech giant has flagged text from America’s most important founding document because it is not “politically correct” enough in

Lightbringer · 2018-07-05T00:46:50.000Z

:person_facepalming:

Never mind, I’m off to watch the Cleveland Indigenous Americans play the Kansas City One-Percenters on teevee…

Kindle · 2018-07-05T01:39:45.000Z

RobertB:

And people wonder why people hate facebook

Facebook Flags Declaration of Independence Text as 'Hate Speech' - Big League Politics

A bot made an error, when notified the company corrected it. Not much of a story.

gchart · 2018-07-05T03:12:12.000Z

NeutralFan, I had a similar thought. I just whipped up a Red, White, & Blue tailcap for my Convoy L2. Happy Independence Day!

Robowski · 2018-07-05T03:08:21.000Z

Happy Independence day from Australia

teacher · 2018-07-05T04:34:56.000Z

Robowski:

Happy Independence day from Australia

Thank you!!

Great thread Dale! Thanks for posting. Hope your 4th was good!

Hope everyone’s was good…… :+1:

Boaz · 2018-07-05T05:17:23.000Z

happy 4th of july

light the fuse and ….run

ryansoh3 · 2018-07-05T07:03:13.000Z

Are those your photos Dale?

They look amazing.

toddcshoe · 2018-07-05T08:12:06.000Z

Ya know, I fly this flag on one of the two flagpoles I have on my house daily. I don’t have dedicated lights for my flags so I take them down every night and put them back up every morning. Now the flag above isn’t a confederate states flag, it’s a battle flag. I was born and raised in Missouri but spent lots of time with family on farms in rural Louisiana and Oklahoma. That flag to me means a way of life that is missing now days in this over sensitive world and something I am willing to fight for so my children will grow up knowing how to be respectful individuals. Yes ma’am, yes sir, thank you and nice to meet you are never phrases that need to be reminded to say in my house. You give respect and you get it in return. So that confederate battle flag reminds me everyday what I need to fight for to make my children good decent people who will never waver from what they are. They will never have to explain who they are nor apologize for it.

In the 30 plus years I have flown that flag I have only had a few people stop at my house to confront me about it. Two are still really good friends of mine to this day and the other three didn’t see the dead end sign at the end of the road.

Hope everyone enjoyed the 4th.

scrumpypaul · 2018-07-05T08:23:06.000Z

Happy belated Independence Day from the other side of the pond. I grew up in the original Washington, the ancestral home of George Washington. It was just last year I visited Washington Old Hall again.

My eldest daughter is lucky enough to be experiencing the American way of life, soon to enter her second year at Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia.

Hope you had a nice day.

SP

klrman · 2018-07-05T08:32:53.000Z

Happy 4th July to all our southern Neighbors

Kindle · 2018-07-05T08:44:52.000Z

Just a friendly reminder to remember the rules (specifically #3) that everyone agreed to when they joined the forum.

Zulumoose · 2018-07-05T08:53:34.000Z

In the 30 plus years I have flown that flag I have only had a few people stop at my house to confront me about it.

Toddcshoe

I’m all for people standing up for what is important to them, and having the courage of their convictions.

The thing is though, no matter what the flag means to you, the effect of displaying it in public is that people will associate with you, whatever it means to THEM. For every one who spoke to you about it, how many just made the association that was logical to them and moved on?

Whatever your intentions, the results are quite probably the opposite of what you would like.
We have the same situation here in S.A. where flying the old flag is seen in the same light as racist hate speech, regardless of whether the person flying it was just feeling a bit nostalgic for a way of life that may, for them, have had nothing whatsoever to do with race.
Without context, the flag means what it means to whoever can see it, and if that is not the intention, then to fly it is perhaps counterproductive.
Just something to be aware of.

toddcshoe · 2018-07-05T08:59:51.000Z

Kindle:

Just a friendly reminder to remember the rules (specifically #3) that everyone agreed to when they joined the forum.

None broken, Thank you.

toddcshoe · 2018-07-05T09:13:19.000Z

Zulumoose:

In the 30 plus years I have flown that flag I have only had a few people stop at my house to confront me about it.

Toddcshoe

I’m all for people standing up for what is important to them, and having the courage of their convictions.

The thing is though, no matter what the flag means to you, the effect of displaying it in public is that people will associate with you, whatever it means to THEM. For every one who spoke to you about it, how many just made the association that was logical to them and moved on?

Whatever your intentions, the results are quite probably the opposite of what you would like.
We have the same situation here in S.A. where flying the old flag is seen in the same light as racist hate speech, regardless of whether the person flying it was just feeling a bit nostalgic for a way of life that may, for them, have had nothing whatsoever to do with race.
Without context, the flag means what it means to whoever can see it, and if that is not the intention, then to fly it is perhaps counterproductive.
Just something to be aware of.

Well I live in a place where I will not apologize for who I am. I don’t really care what people think of me. Everyone’s interpretation of that flag is their own issue, not mine.

I don’t have not a single intention when I fly that flag so the opposite of what I would like is pointless. I don’t have an intention. I fly it for my own reasons, not anyone else’s.

You are correct, the flag means what it means to whoever can see it, and since I have no intention, it can be neither counterproductive or productive. Seeing as I am not pushing an agenda on anyone.

I am a single solitary person that lives by my own values. I support what I want and stand for what I support. Now you can go on about this whole racist thing all you want, all that does is make it your problem not mine.

Good day my friend.

Zulumoose · 2018-07-05T09:31:25.000Z

I live in a place where I will not apologize for who I am

1) That wasn’t my point at all, the point is that people will make assumptions about you that DO NOT represent who you are. They will expect you to apologize for being someone else that they THINK you are.

I don’t really care what people think of me

2) All good then.

Now you can go on about this whole racist thing all you want, all that does is make it your problem not mine

Completely misreading my intentions, see 1 above. My concern was the potential for it being counterproductive, see 2.

toddcshoe · 2018-07-05T09:57:39.000Z

Zulumoose:

I live in a place where I will not apologize for who I am

1) That wasn’t my point at all, the point is that people will make assumptions about you that DO NOT represent who you are. They will expect you to apologize for being someone else that they THINK you are.

Luckily in this day and age I don’t have to apologize nor will I for what they THINK I am. Again, that is entirely THEIR problem.

This social problem plays out everyday where there are people who fly a flag or have a belief that doesn’t suit an entirely different group of people’s feelings.

There are tons of flags, religions, ways of life, values, etc……… None of those have to answer for whatever color or flag they choose or choose not to fly. They also get to deal with the other side if they do decide to fly that flag or color.

I’ve chose mine. I assume nobody else would take theirs down so don’t expect me to.