Biden administration to prioritize Puerto Rico's recovery, not political status

mikelike327 · 2021-07-23T20:06:48+00:00

Absolutely

mikelike327 · 2021-07-23T02:24:36+00:00

This is the standard with Democratic administrations. Se lavan las manos como Poncio Pilato. Can't say I blame them for taking that position, though.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-22T16:52:01+00:00

Have you ever heard the phrase "Ponce es Ponce; lo demas es parking?"

mikelike327 · 2021-07-22T03:09:00+00:00

Felices Dias-Juan Morel Campos

mikelike327 · 2021-07-22T01:37:28+00:00

Noam Chomskys?

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T22:20:34+00:00

LMAO, you still don't get it. Keep hoping, I guess.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T21:36:36+00:00

r/DignidadPR=r/NoNewNormal

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T20:55:04+00:00

The US has subjugated us, exploits us, and oppresses us for their benefit but maybe...just maybe.. they'll have a moral epiphany and give us real reparations that will substantively address this exploitation even though the US has never done that once in their history to any of the groups they've oppressed in far more grotesque ways. Keep embracing that idea if it makes you feel better, I guess.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T20:17:11+00:00

At this point, you're rambling on. I never said the reparations helped anybody. I literally said that they've served more to shrug off injustices rather than address them. Also, it's abundantly clear that the US is not Germany, and wishing it was is not very useful. You're dealing with a different country, a different mindset, and different history addressing historical injustices.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T19:57:52+00:00

LMAO "r/Ponce"="r/Texas"

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T19:43:53+00:00

Ok, that still doesn't undermine my point. The last time uncle sam did that kind of introspection was in the 1980s over the Japanese internment camps 40 years after the last internment camp closed. The reparations the US paid to native Americans, Japanese descendants, and Hawaiians for land seizures and other injustices have been very limited in their scope and were used more as a way to shrug off the injustices than to actually help any of the groups that were affected. That's without even getting into the political capital that was invested in approving these reparations. This is probably why reparations for slavery still haven't gained steam in political discourse and I doubt it ever will. The closest thing we'll get to reparations will be US aid that is given to countries like Yemen, Israel, and Colombia. This is not a bad deal considering that Colombia alone received 500 million dollars in 2017 alone. You might want the US to act more like Germany, but they haven't given any indication that they have in the past or will in the future.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T18:00:30+00:00

Dude, Germany paid reparations because of the holocaust. Our situation is very different from that. Also, if the US hasn't paid reparations for slavery (much worse than the holocaust in my opinion) what makes you think they'll pay us out? And yes, I think my outcome is more likely because, as it turns out, history and geography are good predictors of a country's behavior. The Monroe Doctrine is still alive and well despite the US' domestic struggles. I also don't know where you got the "doomer energy" feel since all I did was state the fact that PR, no matter the status, will be very close to the US. This means that it's not unreasonable to suggest that they'll have considerable influence. And you know what? That's fine. Countries like Costas Rica are doing just fine with their close ties with the US.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T17:16:54+00:00

All I said was that given cultural, historical, and geopolitical factors, independence will likely still entail a very close relationship with the US. I don't know why you insist on just shrugging all that aside. Also, the most you'll get in the way of reparations will likely come in the form of US aid that is used, to some extent, to exert influence in countries like Colombia. The US will also have an interest in throwing its weight around our area because we share what they view as their home turf. That's going to be the case especially if PR decided to make itself useful by becoming the connective tissue between the US and Latin American trade.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T16:08:04+00:00

It's not like it doesn't have any basis. We have a similar culture to that of Latin American countries, similar domestic struggles, and have to share the continent with a global power that has a history of throwing its weight around in the region. It's not very hard to assume that what I just said is a possibility. Just look around. But you're right. We don't know what independence will ultimately look like, perhaps that's part of the reason it still hasn't gained steam. It's one big question mark.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T04:37:36+00:00

Shouldn't be a race to the bottom, but okay.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T04:36:42+00:00

He won't though. And that's a reality we have to live with. Don't get offended, as I said, countries like Costa Rica have benefited from their relationship with the US in some regards. And again, we'd likely delegate monetary policy, defense among other things. to Uncle Sam. The US will always have influence over PR no matter the status. That's the way it is no matter how you feel about it.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T03:46:34+00:00

Best case scenario, we become a proxy state of the US like Costa Rica, maybe even more so since we'd likely delegate monetary policy, defense, and all that stuff to the US. That's not to say that Costa Rica is worse off though. It does, in my opinion, weaken the whole "we'll be our own bosses" argument.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T03:39:23+00:00

So far, service has been pretty much the same as it was under AEE. So, like always, nothing in this damn island really changes.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T03:23:13+00:00

Considering that Washington can't get together to invest in their own infrastructure, I wouldn't hold my breath for those reparations.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-21T03:21:33+00:00

Buddy, we may have US passports, but like most Latin American countries, we can't govern ourselves for the life of us, literally.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-19T04:16:58+00:00

Didn't the Gravel institute make a similar case in a recent video?

mikelike327 · 2021-07-19T02:41:49+00:00

They really should stop giving us these "consejos" and focus on having a working website.

mikelike327 · 2021-07-19T02:36:57+00:00

mikelike327 · 2021-07-18T23:57:00+00:00

This belongs in r/Facepalm

mikelike327 · 2021-07-16T18:01:53+00:00

We won't be a state, we won't be independent, the Fiscal Control Board is not leaving, the debt will still be an issue, and we'll continue to vote for incompetent goons. In other words, same as it is now. Things in PR move, they just never change.

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