Huh. Today I learned 

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Replying to @spacekookie
She came in second in American Samoa, netting a total of 1 delegate. Sleeper comeback candidate IMO
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Replying to @sgrif @spacekookie
unironically into whatever spotlight makes CONUS remember that prisoners aren't the only non-voting citizens
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Replying to @myrrlyn @spacekookie
It is ridiculous that I can move to Canada and still vote, I can be in space and still vote, but if I move to Puerto Rico I cannot vote.
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i was explaining this to a non-citizen friend and it took extremely long for her to process this because she thought that I was saying that those *born* in PR can't vote, because that would be the "logical" (still shitty) one
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Yeah, I find it interesting that folks think those born in the territories are anything other than full American citizens with the same rights as any other American citizen.
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uh but that's actually true, people from territories *other than Puerto Rico* are nationals, not citizens.
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I thought this applied to Guam as well?
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oh, right, that one as well
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Replying to @ManishEarth @sgrif and
also the virgin islands but by default folks from territories are nationals-not-citizens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#Nationals …
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Thank you colonialism for all these fun and "interesting" special cases
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not just colonialism, also bird poop law (almost all of the uninhabited island territories are because of this one) https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title48/chapter8&edition=prelim …
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bird poop law is my favorite kind of law
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