Red White and Rainbow stripes

As an immigrant, at first i thought it was crazy how extremely celebrated it was (not complaining about it happening though). But now that I studied US pol sci, govt ans history, I think the huge celebration is warranted. State constituion is POWERFUL. It's nearly improbable to get a law that has nothing to do with national security on the federal level. The states are like mini countries, with their own criminal codes and whatnot. So yeah, it was really celebrated coz it's so hard to get 50 virtually autonomous states to all agree at once

@MaviMavi Yeah, I keep telling my non-American friends "Don't think of America as one country, think of us as about fifty little countries that can all barely stand each other."

@gamerlen That quote is going to be written down and put on my wall, I've never seen something about the states that is this true my whole life.

@snakebird9 at this point, I don't even think some of the states can stand each other at all.

Sister America be like: TASTE THE RAINBOW MUTHERFUCKER

AMERICA IS THE WHOLE WORLD

@JAKE hahahahahahahahahaaaahahhhhhahahhahahaahahahahhaha
No we're not

@JAKE Oh, so you call me an odd mutant with a special language?

@JAKE Remember the song "We Are the World?" Written by two Americans, arranged by an American, produced by an American, and recorded by a group called USA.

QED.

to be fair that's most likely because a lot of the big companies like microsoft are american

Whenever it became legal in separate states, we were pretty calm about it too. If it's the entire country, THAT'S when we get excited.

It was so annoying -_- its like the Americans have to overdo EVERYTHING-_-;;

@FromTheRiverKent It's because Americans are especially resistant to change. So when something progressive like this happens, they have to go bloody nuts.

@Medktz_2 And because America regularly forgets that they aren't the only country on the planet

@FromTheRiverKent But that's no fun...

I always get a chuckle when the states are discussing changing something and i hear a bunch of butthurt 'murrican's bitching about how their countries going to shit and proclaiming "I'm leaving! I'll move to Canada!". Like, 90% of the time i'm thinking "Err, sorry to break it to ya mate, but we did that like, years ago, eh?".

To be fair, we were forged with the ideals of Freedom, it's the thing drilled into our culture, so any triumph in the name of freedom we will party so hard it can be heard from the goddamn moon. S'kinda what we do.

@AgentSparkz
You CAN'T be serious... Dear Lord, you really are. >.>

You were "forged" by Puritans so vehemently against all forms of personal freedom they were thrown out of ENGLAND, of all the uptight places, and by claiming land already occupied, by means of mass-murder, broken treaties, and lies. You had to fight a war with yourself to finally let go of slavery about a century later than nearly every other first-world country (and racial inequalities are still a huge issue with you to this day... probably rooted in the very concept of "race" as though we were separate and distinct species, that you can't seem to let go of) and finally you currently have almost 1% of your entire population held in prison (more than 1/5 of all the prisoners in the entire world) overwhelmingly for minor, non-violent crimes (most of which could be categorized as individuals behaving as though they HAD real freedoms to do what they wished, as long as they didn't hurt anyone else in the process, that at least in your country, they don't have.)

Freedom is something abhorrent to your entire culture and its demonstrable values. It's a word you shout loudly that means nothing to you but abstract symbols of white-faced birds (no surprise there) and a flag mostly copied from a 17th century corporate logo. Actual, tangible freedom is something you expend all your efforts and considerable resources to stamp out, both home and abroad, in the later case, usually in the name of "help" that no one asked you for.

So yeah... congrats on (finally) taking a single step in the direction of becoming a modern civilized nation, decades behind most others. Way to catch up, but if it's a race with "Freedom" as the goal, you've been spending too many years running in the opposite direction to make anyone else believe you'll ever be able to cross the finish line as you are, never mind earn a place on the podium.

@Hinoron lol someone saw that whole thing you wrote and couldnt find a respond so just responded with downvote

@mesterG
It IS hard to argue against.

@Hinoron Absolutely true! Wish that people in USA stopped act like they are the whole world & that they are a free country with no problems *sign*

(for those who don't get the Canada part - Canada legalized same sex marrige 5 years ago)

"If same-sex marriage becomes legal, I'm going to move in with Canada!"

*snickers coming from Canadians on the internet*

"Who's gonna tell them?"
"Let them figure it out themselves"

@OperativeSushi7 Where I live, homosexual unions, while legal, are not recognized. Many people also will hate you if you support it.

@OperativeSushi7 I won't be telling America. Also, Canada passed that law almost ten years before America. Someone's really not been keeping up to date on Canadian Politics.

@Atrombonist
I suggest you lower your expectations brother. Something like 40% of them can't find Canada on a map.