• HelixDab2
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    3 days ago

    I’m not sure that more than 50% of Puerto Rico wants to be a state.

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      They vote on it rather frequently. They do at the moment but it does waffle a bit.

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            Poor people voting against their own interests because a rich asshole told them to is an American tradition, I guess they’re definitely ready!

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        I’m sure there’s good reasons involving Cultural identity and policy disagreement that they wouldn’t want to become a state, but it really seems like it would be a huge win financially.

        It would be Missouri yet again holding the bag. They’d no longer be able to plead poverty for more federal funding.