To be clear, this is what you’re actually defending right now:

“Threatened his citizenry,” really? You know he’s not the one keeping the food warehouses locked, right? That he’s on the other side of that fight? Do you have that little idea what’s happening down there?

What in the world is a "populist police state," bro, are you just mashing words together now?

Yes with their damn dirty socialism disrupting our centrally... planned... economy? Most people aren’t yeomen and most countries aren’t self-sufficient because of things like electricity and treaty organizations that, I would guess, you actually think are pretty good ideas. But seriously, I refer you back to the…

Do you have anything to base that claim on, other than a tired ethnic stereotype?

We’re the largest food producer in the hemisphere and we’ve embargoed food products during a food shortage. How do we not bear responsibility there? Is it not good enough for every socialist state to be a military superpower, now they also need to each be agriculturally self-sufficient? That’s a standard you would not…

There was nothing confusing about it, and the difference between No votes and Statehood votes was closer to 150,000, strongly indicating that everyone understood that “Question 1" was followed by “Question 2" and was able to make an informed decision about the latter in spite of the nefarious presence of multiple…

That’s an extremely sad way of saying you don’t ever want to be asked to justify your opinions.

That’s 100% of all elections that have ever happened that you just described there. An electoral party staying on the ballot but claiming to "boycott” an election is a desperation move that no political organization turns to if they actually have popular support.

Well, a greater proportion of the Island's population voted for statehood in 2012 than Americans have voted for any presidential candidate in 55 years, so in the context of our broader political system, it's hard to get more straightforward than that.

Yeah, what kind of monster would verbally encourage people to vote for them during an election, how very repressive of him

If they wanted to depose him, they probably wouldn't vote for him in such enormous numbers.

I don’t think either of them would be bothered by the fact that an ethical economy does not always go hand-in-hand to martial strength, or agree with you that being able to keep the military upper hand should be the only criterion in an entire society’s political legitimacy. Opposing colonialism was a disadvantagous…

Yes, they have. They've voted overwhelmingly for statehood in referenda. The Commonwealth Government has ruined Congress for statehood. Several bills have been introduced in the house to make Puerto Rico a state 

Taste is, inescapably, a judgement. You need to get more comfortable with other people having opinions that contradict your own, or your life is going to be very long and lonely.

I read “gift” in the sense of “something you have no LEGAL right to,” which is pretty much the basis of the colonial relationship. Lacking a federal lockbox on funds to the Territories, you’re completely at the mercy of people you don’t get to vote for come budgeting time, so you’ll never break even on tax money. The…

She left to do a movie

How is not liking the same movies as you “entitlement”

Nobody’s "offended" you edgelord moron, they're just bad movies

Welp, there goes the 14th Amendment. Guess I better learn how to use a gun.