Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-28 days agoI get that america is failing in it's duty to suppress the rise of fascists but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket?message-squaremessage-square66linkfedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down124
arrow-up1255arrow-down1message-squareI get that america is failing in it's duty to suppress the rise of fascists but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket?Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-28 days agomessage-square66linkfedilink
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agopuerto rico was in that and still hasn’t gotten statehood OR independence. incidentally puerto rico is more populous than 7 countries in the EU
minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoTo be fair on that one, Puerto Ricans seem torn on what they want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_political_status_for_Puerto_Rico Up until Trump the US has been reasonable about independence questions since WW2, for the most part. (Highlighting that independence is different than being free from interfering)
puerto rico was in that and still hasn’t gotten statehood OR independence. incidentally puerto rico is more populous than 7 countries in the EU
To be fair on that one, Puerto Ricans seem torn on what they want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_political_status_for_Puerto_Rico
Up until Trump the US has been reasonable about independence questions since WW2, for the most part. (Highlighting that independence is different than being free from interfering)