The Forest Dark

If you’re in the mainland US, go to this site, educate yourself on your candidates at all levels of government, and if you already haven’t,VOTE.

(If you’re in Puerto Rico, there’s nothing to learn that the ear-piercing dog-torture loudspeakers haven’t told you, so just go ahead and vote too!)

So, go on, exercise your rights! Get your asses down to the polls and cast an informed vote!

I wish I had a flamethrower to incinerate the majority of Yahoo! commenters.

For every one nuanced and well-thought-out comment about Puerto Rico’s right to determine its political status, there’s

• three morons bitching about having more Spanish speakers in the country
• twenty douchebags ranting about the entire island being lazy and on welfare
• five more dumb fucks telling Puerto Rico to go back to Cuba
• ten shitheads accusing Puerto Ricans of being hubcap thieves that should be deported
• fifteen shitheads blaming ‘Obozo’ for whatever the fuck perceived slights unrelated to the topic at hand
• thirty more wastes of space claiming Puerto Rico is an island of foreigner parasites that would contribute nothing to the US

The invaluable strategic importance to both the US military and trade have been reiterated with more nuance and effect elsewhere, but I’d be remiss to mention them.

The global economic downturn has fucked the island over, true. Then again, it’s done so to practically the entire goddamned planet.

Of course unemployment is through the roof: big in heart, Puerto Rico is geographically miniscule and densely populated. It’s an issue that requires attention, but being an ignorant xenophobe doesn’t help it at all.

Puerto Rico has also sent soldiers to every major war since World War I, giving their lives for our rights, just as any other American soldier. In fact, more Puerto Ricans have given their lives for this country on a per-capita basis than any other state of the Union.

No matter where you stand on the issue, it’s undeniable that Puerto Rico & the US have a shared history and culture dating back to 1898, a fact that the average uneducated fuckstick in the mainland seems to forget.

We’ve been a part of the United States since citizens since 1917, so telling us to “go back to Cuba” or to “learn English or get out” is an exercise in uninformed banality. We’ve pledged allegiance to the same flag for years uncounted, so where the fuck do these assholes get off treating us as inferiors?

While I’m on the subject of language, may I remind everyone that there is no Federal law specifying an official language to the United States? Individual states have indeed declared English as the official language, true (as has Puerto Rico, where both Spanish are English are the official tongues; Hawaii lists Hawaiian as official as well), but people seem to forget that a certain amendment on the bill of rights stands in the way of English-only laws.

Don’t want Puerto Ricans speaking Spanish exclusively? Don’t fuck with education funding then. It seems to me that Republicans as a whole tend to complain a lot about the lack of knowledge going around, yet they’re the first to propose education funding cuts, and they’re the first to oppose any reforms in the education system (and this is without even touching upon their disgusting contempt of science, which is a whole other lengthy post.)

Honestly, it’s disturbing and infuriating how quick to spew idiocy these xenophobic jackasses are, and it’s quite troubling, to say the least. Puerto Rico’s political status is indeed an issue that bears discussion, but to do so, the xenophobia and rampant ignorance that the Republican constituents hold need to be fought and destroyed.

Learn the facts before discussing issues you know nothing about (a piece of advice that would do well to people of all sides of the political spectrum.)

Most importantly, don’t be a xenophobic douche (a piece of advice that is directly aimed at the Republican presence online.)

Can anyone tell me why is is that being a Republican on the internet goes hand in hand with being an ignorant racist cunt?