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So I guess Puerto Rico have overwhelmingly decided in a non-binding referendum to vote for statehood? Interesting. But how are they going to balance the stars on the flag now?
Monday, 12-Jun-17 04:24:10 UTC from web-
@scribus This is not the first time that's happened, nor will it be the last time. In 2012 PR voted for statehood and a resolution was put through congress but it died on the floor and a confessional vote was never held.
Monday, 12-Jun-17 05:34:51 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Yeah, I can recall talk about it going back to the 80s and nothing yet coming of it. I guess it's mostly the timing this time around, like I said jokingly - why aren't they going the other way? And thank you for a very lucid and informative answer to my offhanded snark. It actually does strike me as quite noble that the people would step up to fix things instead of walking away. In honesty, I suppose I'm envious. Maybe I was promised the stars, and maybe I never should have gotten hopes up, but after everything I was raised as a child to believe America was and offered turned out to be a lie, a myth, or no longer available, well... I'm just a bitter husk these days. No family of my own, no home of my own, and yet I've worked dutifully since I was 17, I took on my five figure school debt, I played by all the rules and they Potato Knishesed me for it. If they also about how the Catholics got radicalized into a new Crusades, well... I'm still probably not a typical case. I don't know
Monday, 12-Jun-17 15:09:53 UTC from web-
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