democracyatwork.info
This article makes me want to vomit.
How has Puerto Rico not had an uprising and reclaimed its independence yet?
This article makes me want to vomit
Parker Baker
Evan Walker
No class consciousness. Also U.S has its economy by the balls.
Isaiah Reyes
Have you read this PROMESA shit the US is trying to pass right now OP? It effectively turns Puerto Rico into a colony of debt slaves.
Joseph Sanchez
AW SHEIT this is my kind of thread. Hey I'm Puerto Rican and I post here a lot, mostly about Puerto Rico. They're going to vote on PROMESA today which is sure to pass, hopefully it gets amended up the ass.
Nicholas Rogers
Something will be getting it up the ass either way
Chase Butler
Most people believe the current crisis is all the fault of the local government, and they think federal intervention will fix everything and that implementing such horrifying proposal is necessary and that the US government can do nothing wrong and will save us all. Also some of this
Also, a lot of people are leaving, so they don't worry too much about the future of the island.
Same here brodel. I'm legit worried. We are gonna get fucked and we are gonna get fucked hard.
Colton Parker
Puertoricans Butcher Castillian in ways that not even Mexicans do.
I have a personal autistic grudge with you boricua fucking shits for that… and for reggaeton too.
Anyways, how terrible is PROMESA in relations to Puerto Rico's economy today?
Thomas Sanchez
Woops, didn't mean to sage.
Robert Myers
Mexicans, except for the Chilangos, do not butcher Spanish. Puerto Ricans piss me off when they speak. Pronounce all the letters you shits!!
Ayden Ross
Puerto Rico is about to get fucked up by moronic austerity measures even harder than Brussels is fucking Greece.
Justin Ross
washingtonpost.com
It passed with no amendments, brodel.
Well, nobody asked for this, so we don't have to feel bad about abusing this for accelerationist purposes. I debated moving back there for college and participating in orgs should it pass, and now it's passed. 69% of Puerto Ricans were against this bill. The land is fertile for revolution, and it will only increase as the new FCB screws us over more and more. The people will never forgive Padilla or the PPD, we just have to make sure the NPP can't capitalize on this situation. Let's make Puerto Rico the birthplace of modern revolutionary socialism, me and you.
Puerto Rico has like 5 accents. I think what you're hearing is kind of a San Juan. Don't generalize. And also the rest of the Caribbean also does it, and I'm pretty sure large parts of the rest of Latin America. So.
We hereby apologize for reggaeton though.
Also, the ultimate irony is the number of libertarians supporting this bill.
Christian Hill
So much for Libre Asociado.
I moved back here mainly for university (much cheaper, did not want to go into debts or burden my parents with shit). I do hope people take action, because considering past actions, most will just stay at home and go business as usual. I hope young people specially start mobilizing, considering we're being targeted hard with such measures.
Kevin Powell
UPRM or UPRRP?
Holy shit I just read the comments on that blog. I was about to reply angrily to everyone until I realized that it was a blog and the readership is going to be shitty conservatives. But for real, there's people calling Puerto Rico "useless" and saying it "got what it signed up for" with "spending" (which is what the Republicans have been feeding Americans about what's wrong with our economy which is the opposite of true and always has been)
Charles James
Puerto Rico is completely fucked now. Get out while you can.
Ryder Moore
naturalresources.house.gov
Among other things, it establishes an unelected "Oversite Board" that has unlimited power to control the government of Puerto Rico in the interests of paying back PR's loans, and lasts indefinitely or until such time as PR's debt situation is "resolved"–effectively never.
Hunter Flores
US military, balance of forces…class consciousness can come later, since they could have a nationalist revolution instead of a socialist one.
Andrew Allen
Didn't puerto rico vote to become a state?
Ian Jenkins
No. That's only if you count non-protest ballots.
Statehood would be shit for everyone involved. We really want independence, we're just not sure we can pull it off.
Joseph Jenkins
If you become independent but don't delet debt, you're not independent.
It's like giving land to the farmers, but the land is shit, so they have to buy fertilizers from the previous landowners and now they are in debt to them and they own them again.
Hudson Hughes
did you ever think you'd be a literal colonial subject?
Asher Wright
Well, a coup (which is looking more and more likely) would automatically free us of debt.
Caleb Carter
I like the attitude, but the US military would put a lid on that in a hurry. And they're allowed to get a lot bloodier than you see on TV.
Carter White
I wouldn't be that quick about it. There have been peaceful revolutions too. Most of them were even successful. Trust me, if the US came in and started gunning down ebin memes of color peacefully trying to make change the UN wouldn't hear a word of it and all the casualties would be instant martyrs. Plus if Bernie DOES become President he'd probably support it behind the scenes. A hostile revolution would be pants on head stupid, though.
en.wikipedia.org
Kevin Ross
Deep down? Yes, many of us feared America would come to take what was theirs, and it was the subject of many conspiracies. We also knew the ELA wasn't going to last and we'd either be brought into the fold and completely Americanized, losing ourselves in the process, or go independent and perhaps form some sort of Caribbean Union for stability.
Joseph Cooper
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Kayden Bell
Cod blease
Put that pinko shit in my ass daddy, direct democracy and socialism nao