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We own you but we don't want to give you more rights because we can't figure out how to profit enough of you. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Assuming you were born in the USA, why were you born there rather than in Puerto Rico? Was this a matter of skill and judgment on your part, or just luck? If so, what basis do you have for denying the rights you enjoy to others who live in a territory rather than a state?

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Bingo!

Welcome to Earth?

U.S.A was also once owned by another country and it managed to figure something out.

I lived in PR for a few months in 2014, every week I would learn more and more about how much of a disaster that island is.

I wish them luck cause it's going to be hard to get things going again.

So you're suggesting they go to war for independence?

This is the 21st century - any self-respecting democracy should respect the right to self-determination.

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