It's also bizarre reckoning on American's parts given they only really inflect upon the supposed self governance seldom, are functionally detached from decision making between those inflections, only have supposed recourse in ejecting bad actors but not undoing their mandates and policies, and so on and so on and so on, where...yeah, the day to day life isn't exactly that different and the special days where it is just contribute to self deluding farce of differences.
@ciggysmokebringer I mean there’s stuff like ‘as an immigrant you can probably be involved in some protests and in some causes and be fine’ in most of the U.S. vs ‘Dubai and Singapore will deport you as a foreigner immediately for saying ‘Burma should be free’ or ‘we shouldn’t enslave foreign workers from South Asia’ (actual things that have happened to people I know), but I get what you mean about the day to day / making a living stuff.