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I like fireworks. I don't like when people continue to set them off at odd hours weeks after the 4th.
I think complaining about fireworks on a day of celebration is some grumpy old NIMBY shit.
I agree. There's a time and place. It's the 4th, and maybe new years
Honest question: What the fuck do American's have to celebrate?
Not being British. It's all we got left
Yo mama
Yeah caring about the environment is nimbyism...
You ever taken a look at your local level politics? It's mostly NIMBYs trying to use environmental law not to protect the environment, but to protect their property value and keep out "undesirables."
They're also trying to shut down night clubs, roadblock any method of transportation that isn't car-oriented, enact curfews, and generally just suck all the joy out of life like these no-fireworks having fun police.
The primary perpetrators of environmental law in my city are people who genuinely care about it.
Fire works are not the same as the other things you have listed(well, not the car part); as they do actually have a substantiable effect on the environment and local air quality.
My argument is what the fuck are you celebrating? Did you get enough of your freedums this year?
As a white property owning male it's my day of freedom 🦅🦅🦅
Okay, now say that about literally any holiday aside from the one you personally dislike and see how it holds up.
Halloween. Celebrating recruitment into the skeleton army. Duh? What an insane take. My valid criticisms are invalid since other holidays exist.
You used a bullshit apples to oranges comparison for your bullshit criticism. You didn't say New Years or Juneteenth, actual fireworks holidays, because it highlights how stupid your "get over it" argument is.
I'm just going to chalk this up to either you misreading, misunderstanding, or just being a fucking idiot.
I really have no idea what you were saying then. Are you saying people shouldn't celebrate the 4th because a rapist is currently in charge? Or that doing it every year ad infinitum is too much?
Either way I stand by what I said. Let people have their fireworks and stop being a grumpy old fuck about it.
Sure buddy.