@riposteking@___FirstAIDs___@Tzn747@BrianPThomas That having a plurality of votes does nothing for you. It’s not a majority. The US is under no obligation to act at all, much less when more than half the population does not prefer statehood.
@StarsBright_29 PR has not been annexed. It is an unincorporated territory which literally means it belongs to but is not part of the US. And the majority do not favor statehood
@riposteking@___FirstAIDs___@Tzn747@BrianPThomas I don’t know how to explain to you that statehood is not about “democracy”, because it’s not a right. The US is under no obligation to give even if we voted 100% for it. The expansion of a union is fully a discretionary decision of a sovereign nation.
@riposteking@___FirstAIDs___@Tzn747@BrianPThomas Statehood, but less than half the people voted for that. Most people 50%+ do not want that. Now go tell Congress to admit a state where 51% don’t want to be one.
@msmashamartin “More aid”. We don’t need “more aid”. Dependency and the colonial welfare economy is the problem. We need an economy that produces, not promises of more aid.