03-07-2021, 12:45 AM
(03-06-2021, 11:22 AM)hollodero Wrote: Already said it once, but the fact that the USA is still owning colonies like Puerto Rico kinda undermines this whole beacon of democracy idea a bit.
US citizens with no right to vote, facing taxation without representation. And getting mocked at presidential elections by meaningless ballots put in place. Look, you can vote, it just means nothing and we don't care.
(03-06-2021, 11:43 AM)jason Wrote: Clears his throat...
We prefer to call them "territories".
It's all about perspective.
In World War II, the Germans used Prisoners Of War as "Slave Labor" in their labor camps.
My German Grandfather that was a Prisoner Of War didn't have to be subjected to such a inglorious title as "Slave Laborer" in his two and a half years in an American labor camp because he was "Working Off His Debt To The American People".
If Republicans weren't afraid of two more Democratic Senators being added(Same by Democrats if Puerto Rico was mostly Conservative), they would have been a state a long time ago along with Guam and American Samoa. I say go through the process of adding them if Republicans continue to keep pushing for voter suppression laws.
Only users lose drugs.
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