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FEMA struggling to spend the money to get back on top from Hurricane Ian. If I was Boricuas I'd feel very "are we 2nd class citizens again?" about this.
“again” aside from it being trendy to say equality and espouse those values, what about PR’s status suggests the residents would be anything other than a 2nd class of citizen under the United States?
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“again” aside from it being trendy to say equality and espouse those values, what about PR’s status suggests the residents would be anything other than a 2nd class of citizen under the United States?
Puerto Rico keeps getting asked if they want to be a state and keeps saying no.
That would create additional outcomes to PR that they are never asked about
The insular cases are pretty unrecognizably appallingly racist for what we expect of the court, really go read them, so I could see them overruling it and wind up dropping Puerto Rico and Congress being unable to reach consensus on any other outcome
PC has removable SSD and many cheap options to buy new machine.
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Puerto Rico keeps getting asked if they want to be a state and keeps saying no.
The current Supreme Court has suggested being open to revisiting the insular cases That would create additional outcomes to PR that they are never asked about The insular cases are pretty unrecognizably appallingly racist for what we expect of the court, really go read them, so I could see them overruling it and wind up dropping Puerto Rico and Congress being unable to reach consensus on any other outcome
Puerto Rican's would gain some things in medicaid, have to pay different rates of tax, and lose some status in UN and LAC community contexts.
On the mainland, both major parties ostensibly support in principle self determination. That said, I don't see how the current political landscape could produce it, given the fracture lines.
I loved this footnote in the wiki page:
Another misconception is that the import/export taxes collected by the U.S. on products manufactured in Puerto Rico are all returned to the Puerto Rico Treasury. This is not the case. Such import/export taxes are returned only for rum products, and even then the U.S. Treasury keeps a portion of those taxesSince this kind of trade embargo is so lax, it can only be assumed to be formally a part of the foreign policy strategic goal: create sufficient internal backpressure to liberalise the market, that it makes sense for the Cuban government to give in. I wonder if it works? There is no specific "only apple" in this. So, all the anti-cuban government info is available via VPN from other places, via the local copy wikiped…
> create sufficient internal backpressure to liberalise the market, that it makes sense for the Cuban government to give in. I wonder if it works?
After more than 50 years, I think the answer is that it doesn’t work. And the US sanctions are illegal under international law, aside from being cruel and counterproductive.
Our old exchange student from Turkmenistan insisted that there was an Apple store in a couple of malls in Ashgabat, but I showed her that Apple doesn't officially sell anything in TM. She sent me some pictures and it was a complete clone of the official Apple store. Down to outfits, displays, the whole thing. Selling brand new, smuggled in, iPhones/iPads/etc. It was wild.
For the longest time there was a store in Akihabara Tokyo that wasn't a fake Apple Store, but really looked like it wanted to be one.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110426040855/http://www.mac-co...
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Another classic example of used products given new life in an organized matter: a lot of used cars end up in Africa.
I slowly hitchhiked from Europe to West Africa in 2007 and from Western Sahara on, my drivers were all French people driving some old car down to sell for a little quick cash. But already by that time Senegal had said enough already, and so drivers had to head for Mali or Burkina Faso instead. I wonder if the violence in those countries in recent years has put a damper on the used car trade, or if they too banned suc…
The peugeotard way is basically a tradition stretching back to the '60s; for many, it's just an excuse to have an epic road trip. I remember reading about it in the '90s in an excellent Italian book, Vado verso il Capo - 13.000 km attraverso l'Africa (Feltrinelli, 1996) by Sergio Ramazzotti.
Since this kind of trade embargo is so lax, it can only be assumed to be formally a part of the foreign policy strategic goal: create sufficient internal backpressure to liberalise the market, that it makes sense for the Cuban government to give in. I wonder if it works? There is no specific "only apple" in this. So, all the anti-cuban government info is available via VPN from other places, via the local copy wikiped…
There is nothing lax about the trade embargo. Tell that to the people who can’t get food and medicine. This stuff gets in because there’s still lots of travel and people are clever. > create sufficient internal backpressure to liberalise the market, that it makes sense for the Cuban government to give in. I wonder if it works? After more than 50 years, I think the answer is that it doesn’t work. And the US sanctions…
Cubans have all the food and medicine they need because China, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world still trades with them.
The US and Israel are the only countries that have imposed a (very lax) trade ban on Cuba.
Our old exchange student from Turkmenistan insisted that there was an Apple store in a couple of malls in Ashgabat, but I showed her that Apple doesn't officially sell anything in TM. She sent me some pictures and it was a complete clone of the official Apple store. Down to outfits, displays, the whole thing. Selling brand new, smuggled in, iPhones/iPads/etc. It was wild.
There are no official Apple stores in Malaysia. But there are Apple "premium resellers" [1] who have shops that strongly resemble Apple stores. The ones in Malaysia are sanctioned by Apple, since they appear on Apple's own store locator website [2]. [1] Google "machines malaysia" for example [2] https://locate.apple.com/my/en/sales?pt=4&lat=3.160000085830...
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There is nothing lax about the trade embargo. Tell that to the people who can’t get food and medicine. This stuff gets in because there’s still lots of travel and people are clever. > create sufficient internal backpressure to liberalise the market, that it makes sense for the Cuban government to give in. I wonder if it works? After more than 50 years, I think the answer is that it doesn’t work. And the US sanctions…
>There is nothing lax about the trade embargo. Tell that to the people who can’t get food and medicine. Cubans have all the food and medicine they need because China, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world still trades with them. The US and Israel are the only countries that have imposed a (very lax) trade ban on Cuba.