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The dream of #PRStatehood:
“It was [allegedly] Edwin Miranda, Ricardo Rossello’s press secretary, who stated in the #RickyLeaks chat that, ‘He had a vision of the future and it was beautiful—there are no Puerto Ricans.’ ”
#PRFree #LibreYIndependente #PRIndependence #NOtoStatehood
“The chat[s] also reveals that Ricardo Rosselló’s administration inquired about the opposition and their families to obtain information that was later shared on social media through accounts linked to an army of bots to generate adverse public opinion…” #PRStatehood #PRFree
Este es el tipo de personas que apoyan la #PRStatehood: homófobos, intolerantes, misoginos, troles y perdedores, que estan dispuestos a destruir su propio país y gente para llenarse los bolsillos y reírse del sufrimiento de aquellos a quienes se burlan y degradan. #PRIndependence
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I’ve been asked why Americans should care about events in Puerto Rico. Here are some reasons (among many). #thread #Telegramgate #RickyRenunciaYa #RickyLeaks 1/
Demonstrators in Puerto Rico are demanding accountability, an end to cronyism, misogyny, racism, homofobia, media manipulation/attacks, and lack of empathy at the highest levels of power—this should all sound familiar to a mainstream US audience.
Puerto Rico’s political problems are not disconnected from the problems of US governance at large—they are similar but with the added intensity of an inherently anti-democratic imperial system of governance which makes change harder to enact and even imagine.
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