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+5 Yes, Puerto Rico is widely considered a colony—or often described as the world's oldest colony—due to its status as an unincorporated U.S. territory. While residents are U.S. citizens, they lack voting representation in Congress, cannot vote for president,

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Agreeing with your more detail breakdown, I cannot see how it contradicts what I posted before (which I think it's your intention here).

At the end of the day, the USA thought it best to eat battery acid (trump) or starve to death (not vote) rather than eating the cold hamburger that was available (Harris)

We can argue a lot about the flaws of a 2 party system and, most importantly IMO, how deeply corrupt the USA's version of "deMoCRacY" is... but at the end of the day, Americans decided to figuratively kill themselves and bring down the world with them, mostly out of fucking ignorance