+5 Yes, Puerto Rico is widely considered a colony—or often described as the world’s oldest colony—due to its status as an unincorporated U.S. territory. While residents are U.S. citizens, they lack voting representation in Congress, cannot vote for president,
the orange pedo clearly did not know Puerto Rico was a US territory during his first term… he also did not know it was an island
and this level of brilliance was rewarded with a second term by muricans… so yes, I tend to believe every stat that claims they are mostly ignorants
American here, if I could read I would be SO mad about what you wrote
thank you for your good humour… I know I am generalizing which is usually not a good thing, but the frustration mounting over the last few years is really getting me now
Believe me, you are not alone in that frustration. Living here is like watching your stove catch on fire and the one creepy uncle who no one talks to aside from major holidays is actively trying to block you from the extinguisher in the cabinet…while the rest of your relatives just sort of look away. Infuriated is a polite way of saying what I feel these days
~30% of voters will vote ® regardless of who. A smaller share will vote (D) regardless of who. The rest have to be convinced to vote for you instead of the other guy, and the largest group by far have to be convinced to get off their asses and vote at all.
Trump won a second term not because he had a massive upswing in popularity, but because Harris did the opposite of convincing people to actually vote and to do so for her. Apathy favors GOP, high turnout favors Dems.
Definitely agree with this, and also consider those who are unable to vote. By this i mean those who arent registered for whatever reason, or cant get to a poll. I encourage everyone to help with getting people to the polls this midterm: volunteer to drive people And share how on social media
Agreeing with your more detail breakdown, I cannot see how it contradicts what I posted before (which I think it’s your intention here).
At the end of the day, the USA thought it best to eat battery acid (trump) or starve to death (not vote) rather than eating the cold hamburger that was available (Harris)
We can argue a lot about the flaws of a 2 party system and, most importantly IMO, how deeply corrupt the USA’s version of “deMoCRacY” is… but at the end of the day, Americans decided to figuratively kill themselves and bring down the world with them, mostly out of fucking ignorance
I’m Native American and some whites don’t think I’m American.
Native also, I 100% got profiled by a white cop in a small town I went fishing in last fall. Got pulled over and he was surprised I wasn’t Mexican, fuck him.
Fuck da whites! We are in this together brother! Stand up and fight any ally is widely accepted.
Dude I worry about this so much. I’m not only native but I work in the construction industry and hauling all my ladders around in my tools around on my truck I’m so waiting for ice to roll up on my ass I’m going to have to get enough fight with them.
Same bro I work in the mining industry and so many people here are so happy about the ice raids even older natives are excited about it. What is really concerning is that puppy killer Kristie said last year before the 4th of July that natives should lose their status and there tribes.
This last week they tore down all of the plaques from Little bighorn
That is fucking bullshit.
This is actual “logic” my boss once used on this topic.
Native Americans arnt real Americans because they have native in front of them. Why would you need a different word to describe them if they were real Americans?
He’s Mexican, came over illegally and married into citizenship basically.
He also votes hard right maga and might be the dumbest man I’ve ever known.
You might be talking about an uncle of mine. You’ve described him perfectly. I feel your pain ✊
You should call White Americans “Euro Americans”, then. That may clarify things for this lost soul.
Those pochos are the worst kind, literally traitors to their country
Some of those whites have guns and “absolute immunity”
I’m as white as they come, moved to AZ for a bit and was ASTOUNDED by the number of people who think New Mexico is on the other side of the border or that every brown tinted person is clearly Mexican, despite like half of th state being Res territory. Now I’m in UT where the Utes are mostly a sports mascot
The fact that Reservations exist at all is a slap in the face, maybe this time instead of the Canadians yall burn down the White House, just sayin
Shhh don’t give away the plan…
To be fair, until a couple weeks ago, I didn’t know Bad Bunny is…
At all.
He was on a late night show with Linus from Linus Tech Tips. That was my first time seeing him. I’m glad Linus was able to give this small creator the break he needed (/s but it was the first time I saw him…)
I have almost no idea who that Bad Bunny person is but I do know that fascists/republicans hate him so he must be pretty cool.
They really need to make Puerto Rico a full-fledged state at this point.
IIRC they’ve voted multiple times to stay away from the US, but yeah we should add DC and Samoa too
Kind of a have your cake and eat it scenario but I wouldn’t want to become part of America either.
I fully understand. I’ve lived here my whole life and I am disgusted at our current leadership.
85% of memes with made up percentages to make a point end with “let that sink in.” Let that sink in.
Wow, guys. I’m Mexican and not a fan of Bad Bunny at all, but you seem really out of the loop with this guy.
He is a Puerto Rican, and in that sense he is an American citizen, but Bad Bunny is a sovereignist that would very much prefer to be free from the USA. The song Ricky Martin sang during the SB halftime show is just beautiful (listen to the Tiny desk version!). The name of the song is “Lo que le pasó a Hawaii” (What happened to Hawaii) and the lyrics talk about a strong, deep feeling of belonging to the Puerto Rico island. He talks a lot about the simple life in there and some of their traditions. In the end, the song calls Puerto Ricans to hold their flag and don’t allow “them” to do to Puerto Rico what happened to Hawaii.
I was in awe to listen to at least some of these lines in the middle of the Super Bowl. Honestly, don’t even try to ask me about the rest of the show.
The dumbest man you’ve ever known is your boss? Maybe time to switch careers. What type of work do you do?
Wrong OP, I think.
PR would be better off as a state, something they rejected doing at least 2x in referendums. There is zero chance the us lets them be independant, as a state they would be treated better. Although with the whole fascist one party state fixing elections thing it could be s moot point.
But not lately. They’ve been voting for becoming a state since Obama iirc, and they’ve been systematically ignored by Democrat and Republican administrations.
I must add, independence movements are rarely allowed by the oppressor. So, they shouldn’t be bothered about what the USA will “let” them do, if they were inclined for independence, which, I repeat, is not the case with PR.
Have they had a vote endorsing being a state? That’s news to me, I remember a vote losing, don’t remember one since. Yeah I mean PR could fight a guerrilla war to become independent if they didn’t want to concern themselves with what the US will let them do. They are stuck with the US, as we are.
Every ~4 years. Latest vote was taken in 2024, and they voted to become a state. It’s been like this for four consecutive plebiscites, but even before, it was kind of a popular option.
I remember one in the 00s where they said no anyway, don’t recall an exact frame of reference for the year.
PR should get to decide if they want to join this clusterfuck or not. The bare minimum the US should do is allow PR to join if they want to, and guarantee military support if PR asks for it.
“Should” is neither here nor there.
- they will not let puerto rico be independent.
- PR would get treated better as a State
- The republicans will not admit PR as a State right now, unless they could be sure their people would be elected there.
I don’t know what you mean by military support. Are you saying if they are allowed to go independent? They won’t, there is zero chance they will be independent.
Why is it a problem if he sings about that? Being a Puerto Rican is something to be proud of and it’s appropriate if he has opinions on what future they should seek.
I personally think they’d be better off as a state and would welcome them, but it starts with people there deciding what they want to do
I didn’t say it was a problem, on the contrary, I found it admirable.
They, contrary to all my hopes, want so bad to be a USA state, but it’s looking like they are too brown to be “Americans” or they are far from being a priority for the government. The Trump administration seems fixated with the idea of a 51st state in the north. But, hey, at least they are not being economically blocked since the 1960s.
Cool, good for him. I would be too.
I don’t understand what the issue is here…
While I understand most Americans are apparently racist idiots, I find that stat hard to believe.
In all the hoopla around the halftime show, I never once read anything other than he is Puerto Rican. Not even in the maga content the algorithm insists I want to see (to the extent I didn’t immediately block).
Maybe this is being too pedantic but it would be more believable if
- “73% of Americans don’t understand that puerto ricans are us citizens”. Because we are that dumb.
Replying to that German guy somewhere in the comments - Spanish is spoken all over the us as the second most common language. Certainly anywhere in the south you’ll hear it all the time, but even up here in New England it’s very common. There’s no reason to be surprised by hearing it nor to think they are anything other than Americans who are speaking Spanish
There’s an entire TikTok side, not just one influencer but several, that have centered their accounts around random chat apps where they ask north-americans if America is a continent, for comedy. Now, this is truly just anecdotal, however. I’m talking about several influencers who pump dozens of this kind of videos each, every day. Every video has 2 or 3 video chats, sometimes multiple people per chat. There’s so much content that they are their own hashtag and tiktok sphere, of videos making fun of north americans for not knowing basic geography.
I like to introduce myself as coming from America’s biggest country. I might then mention that we only speak French here.
If you ask South Americans, at least some of them will tell you that America is one continent.
The day I told my 3rd graders in Colombia that there were 7 continents, it sparked a conversation I was not expecting (because that is what every social studies textbook said when I was in school in the US). Here, they only count five. That was the day I learned there is not an international consensus about what constitutes a continent.
Here, they only count five.
Which other two get combined or does one get wholly discarded? Like the seven I’m used to are N. America, S.America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania and Antarctica. Is Eurasia a single continent to them, does Antarctica or Australia not count, or something else?
Eurasia counts as one continent for my students.
But in some places, apparently they don’t count Antarctica because it isn’t populated by a permanent human civilization.
And if you do try to define object science-based criteria, you get things like New Zealand is a continent
Same thing with planets. Rather appropriately the now-classified-as-a-dwarf-planet named Eris (after the goddess of strife and discord) being discovered was what set the wheels in motion that led to Pluto losing it’s status as a planet.
Yeah, this is such a shame: we could have been at like 13 planets by now!
Film yourself asking 100 people the same simple question
find 5 who are clueless
Only post the 5% of people who make for good content, never mention the other 95%
Morons lap this up as real
The ole Charlie Kirk youtube method didn’t die with him I see.
There’s no reason to… think they are anything other than Americans who are speaking Spanish
The vast majority of Americans speak English in public. People who speak Spanish as their primary language in public are usually assumed to be foreigners.
It’s amazing how many Lemmings claim to be above billionaire propaganda and yet sit here jerking themselves off about, both, knowing Bad Bunny is a U.S. citizen and him being at the Super Bowl.
Here’s a thought: don’t watch the fucking Super Bowl. Crazy, outlandish idea — but as a U.S. citizen I can guarantee that it is possible for you to do this. Break your chains.
I watched the Super Bowl for 15 minutes.
Wait, so why is that part of mexico american, I am confused? /s
mexico gave it to murica as a gift because mexico very nice 😊
71% of Americans have no idea that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
Included in that 29% are all the people who are Puerto Ricans
I made these numbers up, but they’re likely not that far off.
You forgot to put “let that sink in” at the end.
I could, but mostly I’m preaching to the choir here.
It’s already sunk in.
Old stats but: 5.8 million Puerto Ricans in the US and 3.3 million in Puerto Rico in 2021 (about 340million total in the us in 2021).
I would say 29% is accurate if you include people that would rather be Puerto Ricans right now
Lol you had me going with the 29%!
Americans elected a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who is now tanking our economy and making enemies of all our allies.
Set your expectations low.
Let that sink in.
Fucks sake!
Someone is letting that sink in.
Finally someone letting that sink in.
Oh no, the Gen Alphas are infiltrating Lemmy
GenX, actually. But I’ve got a kid.
Idk. I think Elon killed this joke?
So bad bunny isn’t a chick? Feeling out of the loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhad_Bhabie
You’re probably thinking about the cash me outside girl.
