First the Rewatchables and now this article and suddenly I’m starting to like Bill Simmons like I used too.

I saw him in the 2000s I think (or 2010s). It was like watching a concert by Bip Fortuna. Still it’s not the worst concert I’ve seen.

He said it’s in 10 years which would make it 50 to 100 a year which is nothing to a guy thrust into the media the way they did.

I’m totally agree with your point but with the difference that Splinter would be a guy coming back home from the story and when his SO said “How was your day? I totally beat up on some guy making a stupid comment about a church being burn down. What a NUTJOB........By the way, I also saw Notre Dame burn down.

Oh I totally agree that it’s a stupid suggestion and he deserves to be dragged for this. But for it to be the fist reaction about it on this site makes it look that it’s the more important thing when right now it’s not even close.

I’m not American and I’m as against Trump as anything but to me the fact that Notre Dame church is burning and Splinter’s first thought is to drag on Trump’s statement and not a story about how one of the World’s most historic buildings is burning to the ground, is INSANE to me. For all the criticism of how the…

Did you see the comments section on the Brunei anti gay laws? It was immediately taken over with “whataboutism” about US christian zealots. Imagine being from Brunei and going to the piece to see the issue be covered around the US. A lot of times it shows that even with liberals, americans are super ethnocentric and…

Yeah a lot of people are conservative in PR although not necessarily Republican. I would think that if they get thru with the “republican are racist” they would support the democrats but of course the huge part Christianity plays might make it vote republican. That being said it can’t be stated enough how little…

Because it’s as close to an agreement in their minds in which there are still a Puerto Rico and they fell Puerto Rican. A lot of people don’t grasp that. There is no logical reason why if a person feels they are American and that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, they would support a commonwealth over…

I already explained how the statehood party connived for both referendums. I think it might change in the future (especially with the impact from all the people that went to live in the US) but the thing is far from settled whenever they don’t arrange things for their benefit.

The pro statehood party won but it came after the pro commonwealth party had won in 2012 (which made the 2012 referendum moot). It mostly won because of the problems with the debt but because of the whole disaster that has been Rosello’s tenure (which definitely was exasperated by Maria but it’s can all be blamed on…

The US Citizenship is big but it’s mostly the mentality that people will “starve” without the US and I think the mentality predates the US arrival to the island in 1898.

They are probably the more conservative type although I guess they do what they need to do for their agenda. I know a lot of supporters and they are cool but as a party it just stands for what I’m against. I mean it would be like here in Mexico, the conservatives were for Maximilian and France to set up the kingdom in…

Statehood had never won a referendum until the statehood party started playing tricks. In 2012 they scratched the normal thing of voting for the prepared status and made it a 2 part question. In the first it said if you agreed to continue the current system. The 2nd question was then which status you preferred. Thus a…

A lot of Puerto Ricans have been moving to Florida for a while and they still voted for the Republicans. Lots of people voted for Rick Scott I’m sure and people in the PR government campaigned for it. This is just another thing that shows how Puerto Rico is in that they only pay attention to PR politics. US politics,…

Independence has never been popular in Puerto Rico and I’m sure they would be a panic, since people in Puerto Rico have always been scared of the United States leaving Puerto Rico. I think the majority of people liked the Commonwealth thing but I don’t know if it will change with the large amount of people that moved…

Huh? What a random age. Also it’s extremely YMMV. For me it hasn’t been true at all although like I said, I think your range is pretty random.

Yeah the situation of the commonwealth is a bid debate between it’s supporters but there is a reason why it has always won in each referendum. It’s unreasonable that somebody who truly feels american would prefer his land were a commonwealth and not a state. It make no sense to not be officially part of the country if…

Neither has the believe for a significant portion of our population that we are not americans and are Puerto Ricans. I don’t know why after the racist treatment you expect the people that had this idea to come running like a battered bride.

I’m in Puerto Rico and you’re totally right but like many things, it doesn’t count at all and people talk over us. Every time this comes up, I have to say “it’s not as simple” but I’m grey so it always falls on deaf ears.