It’s the 4th of July! 🇺🇸 What does freedom mean to you as an American today?

[Anonymous]

Today we celebrate America’s independence but freedom means different things to different people.

For some, it’s about rights and patriotism.

For others, it’s about living how you want, loving who you want, or just being yourself without fear.

So what does freedom mean to you in 2025?

[MisterWack]

It is more than just waving a flag and smiling at fireworks in the night sky or the amount of ‘Patriotism’ you can squeeze into your daily life.

It is about direction you want to go in this life, and seeing the trajectory we are headed. I see this Constitutional Republic with Democratic Values as the corner stone for liberty, rights, pursuit of happiness, and that all its people are free also seen as equal under its jurisdiction since limited rights for some, would be allowing silencing for all justified by one man’s vision which goes against everything Our Founders set forth.

I believe in Natural Born Rights endowed by Our Creator and instilled / upheld by the institution of man has created 250 years ago. I believe in the duty and the privilege to uphold the sacred rights as a public servant, to stand up for all even if they didn’t vote for you. You are there to govern for’ We The People’, not the few. The Amendments, The US Constitution, The Rule of Law are there to help guide us and we must stand by them.

I’ll celebrate by looking at my freedoms, freedoms and rights of others, and championing expanding freedom not taking it away. Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Healthcare are some taken away to give freedom to their wealth. A freedom to not pay taxes.
Congress in 2009 took away the freedom to get wages that met the rate of inflation so, now inflation is cracking down on American families, and let us not forget 1980s when government took away freedom of a well established pension for 401ks freedom for the rich, etc.

Look at freedom, be thankful for freedom, and remember freedoms can disappear under any Administration so be awake and alert, call it out and make your voice heard… Not everyone has the backbone to do it.

[Jackblue]

Full freedom of speech which no other country even Western Europe really offers. https://www.voanews.com/a/swedish-court-sentences-far-right-politician-for-insulting-muslims/7852800.html https://www.opindia.com/2021/11/sweden-lund-university-researcher-faces-prosecution-for-study-post-rapes-committed-by-immigrants/ https://freespeechunion.org/hundreds-charged-with-online-speech-crimes-under-online-safety-act-amid-us-free-expression-concerns/

[Screenwriter]

The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

[avery58]

It's been freedom of speech, and I hope it doesn't get lost.

[andreasderjuengere]

I am not American. But ''freedom'' is not a monopoly of one specific nation only.

I take my free liberty to put on the table:

To me 'freedom' means that

- I am willing to listen and to compromise/cooperate with people around me even if they have a different opinion.

- that I don't - and others don't - dictate what to think, what to say and what to do as long as I don't cause harm to them... or to others

- that I can make my own decisions in life - if others approve, or don't.

I see the 'freedom' of individuals like balloons in a room

(room= limited space=our planet) ...

we should be allowed to inflate our balloon as much as we like - but if this leads to a situation where individual balloons are forced to remain smaller than the ones around... that's the moment when ''freedom'' either causes explosions/implosions - or becomes meaningless overall.

On 4th of July, or on any other day.

[QuestionObsession]

What freedom? 😂

America was founded by slave-owning racist separatists of the crown's rule who betrayed the crown and then committed the genocide of the native Americans to colonize the lands.

And then after a century of "freedom" became slaves to the Zionist Jews.

Even whistle-blowers who exposed all the truth, illegal surveillance policies and violation of civil rights by the government administrations were not able to bring people together against the invisible oppression. People are still dumb and enslaved.

American freedom is a joke at best and a scare-tactic at worst.

[blueonblack22]

Isn’t ironic how Americans died to protect the freedom of speech and the pursuit of happiness. Then we gave the freedom of speech to radical leftists who in turn want to limit the freedom of speech and the pursuit of happiness.

[lilBigPotato]

Ah yes, praise the right wing populists who defend freedom of speech by banning books, excluding journalists and unwanted media, etc. /s

Yes how ironic, you're right...

People like Trump, Musk or DeSantis only believe in freedom of speech as long as it's something that matches their ideology, or at least makes them a lot of money.

[blueonblack22]

@lilBigPotato and who again was a fan of cancel culture during the BLM heyday?

[lilBigPotato]

My point wasn't saying leftists are perfect but that pretending that they are the evil while right wing populists are probably even worse is silly.

[blueonblack22]

@lilBigPotato the left just makes up the rules as they go along. They also have a lot more INFLUENCER POWER then the right does. Sure Trump got back in office but the left still dominates the mass media, public education, big tech and now even many corporations.

Also the left is much more firm believer in the “ends justifies the means” attitude. It was beyond appalling how many people are supporting the cowardly murderer Luigi Mangione just because they don’t like health insurance companies. Luigi shot a man (who was a husband and father) in the back and fled like a little bitch. It also says a lot about leftist women who are thinking he’s “brave and innocent” just because he’s good looking.

On top of that the left is CONSTANTLY rioting over anything and everything. From Ferguson to BLM to “no kings” they are constantly destroying things when they don’t what they like.

At last but least leftists are insane hypocrites. They now have moments like “gays for Palestine”. Do these people have Down syndrome or something? Don’t they know that many Islamic countries still throw gay people of buildings?

You don’t see conservatives acting this way. But let’s all fixated on the one isolated J6 incident and pretend nobody else is noticing that absolute insanity.

[Oinkophobic]

@lilBigPotato you're dumb af, white woman. You talk as if leftists/liberals didn't have their own brand of censorship. Their answer to everything is "white man bad," and —in their POV— everything that challenges this narrative must be censored.

[lilBigPotato]

@Oinkophobic new account just to insult and put sexist comment. Waste of time, bye

[Oinkophobic]

@lilBigPotato you could've just said you have no argument to rebut what I said, sweetheart.

[blueonblack22]

@Oinkophobic 💯 spot on about the leftist “white woman” part. Woke white women are BY FAR the worst of the worst. As a white man I can’t stand them. They all act like they “care” about people but in reality it’s about “look at me! I’m woke and fighting social injustice”. I HATE LEFTIST WHITE WOMEN. Just hate them. They’re chiefly responsible for all the bat shit insanity we see today. They voted all deranged bs in just so they can have social “woke kudos”.

[Anonymous]

If patriotism means voting millions of people to die the day before the birthday of the country. Then the country died before its birthday. Nothing to celebrate anymore. Just left with empty embarrassment and death.

[Firesparks]

In the words view freedom is no control from another country or a thing... freedom is strive for n want is the freedom from this world but in the arms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

[DrPepper12]

Balanced reasoned compromise between individuals & civilization in a continuous dialogue with each other

[Anonymous]

It's about the independence of our country from the British empire..

It's also about freedom of speech, religion, expression. The right to bear arms. The right to have a voice in how our government operates.

[TonyMetal___86]

I'm not an American but freedom to me is limited, no one is 100% free, we are just free until we reach the line that the system had drawn for us...

[Anonymous]

No American but my husband was. Let's just say that yesterday morning the British were cumming and I let the neighbours know.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

being free to have a president who is fighting hard for us to keep the independence we got that day

[Anonymous]

Possibly losing some fingers today via the finger blaster.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xeb3-8JeuuE

[beefcakebradybatson]

African Americans have SURE been free since 1619 !!!

[Anonymous]

I'm not American, and I think their "freedom" is just propaganda.

[JJones03]

Apparently it means being fine with 16 million people losing their healthcare and cheering for Nazis...

[LiaRaven]

It means nothing lol

[wolverin38]

freedom of thought

[Skyros]

Everything 🇺🇸