Can American citizens living abroad vote?
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Puerto Rico needs to be a state already. Washington DC too.
Puerto Rico periodically votes on whether or not to pursue becoming a state, becoming a state doesn't win except in one vote that was specifically a non-binding vote on the topic and that had much lower turnout than other votes on the idea.
DC was literally created specifically to not be a state, so that no state held the seat of the federal government.
What happened "no taxation without representation" that the colonists fought for in the war of independence? Apparently it only applies to white people.
It was a lie from the start, it only ever applied to a few wealthy old white men who didn't want any cuts to their profit margins after the British fought a costly war to defend them from French and Native retaliation.
If definitely only did apply to white people. And only men.
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Edit: my information was out of date
Tell the Puerto Ricans that, we're waiting on them reaching 51% in favor.
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But first you should probably fix those islanders that aren't even citizens.
Iirc making people citizenshipless is even against international law?
Which islanders are you referring to?
People born in Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa all have American citizenship (just like Puerto Ricans).
American Samoans don't get citizenship
https://ballotpedia.org/Citizenship_status_in_territories_of_the_United_States
Ok, technically they are US nationals but not US citizens. They still have US passports, but their passports are slightly different.
International law defines a "stateless" person as neither a national nor a citizen of any country. So the UN Conventions on Statelessness do not apply to American Samoans. Likewise the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights provide guarantees of "nationality", not citizenship.
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Sadly it’s not like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness
Canada, for example, withdraw the citizenship to children of Canadians that haven’t lived at least 1 year in Canada before 18yo
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Combine the Carolinas and Dakotas, add DC and Puerto Rico. No flag change.
Got it, so North Carokota, South Dakolina, and DC and Puerto Rico. I think it’s a great idea.
ok but why does carakota go kinda hard
I have no problem with Dakolina either
I was gonna say it's ridiculous to make DC a state, it's just a city!
Turns out more people live in DC than Wyoming or Vermont LOL. So I'm down!
Also I've heard that monkey's brains, although popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often found there.
But it doesn't have an airport. Or a car dealership. There's a car dealership a few blocks from the Capitol building, but it doesn't have one.
(This was an actual argument from the GOP on the floor of Congress.)
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I can just hear those MAGA morons smugly chuckling, "What can they do LOL they can't even vote, fuck 'em!"
No, fuck you.
Why the fuck are US citizens not allowed to vote in a US election?
Because each state is given the power to elect a president, not the voters. Puerto Rico isn’t a state so their voters aren’t represented properly.
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