Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?
Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?
300 million lbs of fireworks and 2.7 billion dollars gone in a cloud of smoke.
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They’re just used by people that hate birds and/or war vets
Yeah no. We all joke at the VFW about this argument and I have yet to meet someone who actually experiences some shit that does the “fireworks scary!” stuff.
I am certain they are out, but most of us don’t care. What we do care about is being used as a whole to justify some anti firework agenda. Most of us like them.
Complain to VA
That’s just one of the thousand VA “The More You Know” documents they hand to us.
╭ ͟ʖ╮ Talk to them about it not being a real thing, I don’t know what you expect me to do about it
I have yet to meet someone...
Now you have. And as someone who gets panic attacks from them, kindly go fuck yourself.
Hey great. Next drink at the VFW is on me.
I hope you have made a claim for the PTSD, you can directly cite fireworks as an issue. Let me know if you need help filing. No personal information need be exchanged, just help in filling out forms and what to do next.
Try spending a new year's eve in e.g. Germany.
everybody above the age of 15 can and will start fireworks in close vicinity to everyone else doing it. You do not feel safe.
And dogs, horses, and other domesticated pets/ animals.
And coyotes!
I lost all love for the 4th of July when the sun was going down and I saw a beautiful coyote across my fence like 5 feet from me. He locked eyes with me and looked so terrified, it took a little bit of my soul. He was panting so hard. He was even looking at me like he was pleading me to help him, but I couldn't because he's, well, a coyote. He stayed looking at me for almost 2 whole minutes before he went back into the brush.
I still think about that every 4th.
Anyone that can feel pity for coyotes is a good egg.
Aw, thanks! I try!
or war vets
Elaborate on why that's a bad idea for Canadians and Americans in 2024
If you join the army because you're fucking stupid in your 20s, and by your 50s you've become a wise, anti-war person who still has PTSD, you don't deserve to get your PTSD triggered because you were dumb 30 years ago.
On one hand, yes, on the other, if you terrorized another group of people, don't you deserve to be punished?
We may be talking about someone who handled logistics, or cooking, or maintenance; they might have been punished by life enough in the 30 years have followed; they may be someone who didn't know what they were getting into, but once they were on the ground, tried to minimize the harm they brought upon others; they may be someone who realized what the army was doing was wrong too late, and was branded a traitor for refusing orders or revealing evil shit that was going on behind the curtains.
All in all, you're either defending that once a person does one bad thing, regardless of their context, they have become essentially tarnished forever, and no matter their growth or already suffered punishment they should continue to suffer forever; or else you're just rationalizing the fact that you want to throw fireworks no matter the harm you bring upon others. Think about this all for two minutes before you say something stupid.
Nah it's not about the fireworks, it's about bad people and those who support them
So you're now posting images of people being mocked for having mental illnesses. Yeah, sure dude, you're an exemplary pillar of morality. Perhaps hold on from having these discussions until you grow up.
That was a screenshot of a message I sent to a good friend after your reply. As much as I respect him as a person, the fact he went to Afghanistan and ruined countless lives means he was a real PoS and deserves his pain
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