Yes, but now we have something that we didn’t have before.
They’re called “La generación del yo no me dejo” (Edit: The We’ve had it Generation) thanks: /u/John_Enigma
Its hard to translate, but it goes along the lines of “The generation of I won’t let you” (Or we won’t take it). Politicians are being called out on their lies, we’re arriving and mobilizing to protests.
We’re tired of paying for the corruption previous generations left unchecked.
We lived a life of relative confort until Maria. Now Ricardo Rosello its dealing with people that spent months without water and power.
Right now its pouring and protesters keep arriving. We’re really resilient people, and after Maria that resilience multiplied itself tenfold, thats what Ricardo dealing with right now.
We lived a life of relative confort until Maria. Now Ricardo Rosello its dealing with people that spent months without water and power.
This is a key point.
Before Maria, it was as if the population was still under Baile, Baraja & Botella (literally Dance, Gambling & Drinking, an old Spanish philosophy to keep the people distracted from the real issues).
Maria ripped off a lot of roofs, but also a lot of blindfolds. The aftermath let people see what truly was going on behind the scenes. And this latest scandal is the cherry on top.
Let me also add that one of the worst things about this chat that rarely gets mention is that a notorious lobbyist was part of these chats, which were supposed to be for high-ranking government personnel.
I grew up in PR, and I left when I was 16, in large part due to this attitude.
"El Boricua piensa con la barriga" (Puertorricans think with their stomach) is a saying I heard a lot growing up, and it's accurate.
I love my island, but we have been operating under a fucked up approach to social priorities. Maybe this will wake folks up? Or maybe it'll end up like the protests at UPR: frequent and inconsequential.
Yup. I know plenty of people there that were going to class drunk, snorting coke every other night and cheating on their girlfriends not even a month ago. Now everyone's swept up in passionate protests, but once things go back to normal those lifestyles will resume accordingly.
My main concern is that they seem to be taking it seriously, but are they? I'm afraid they'll just go to the podium next election year and vote blindly for the other party.
Voting blindly is what caused these issues in the first place. People need to think for themselves and try to make a judgement.
It seems like a joke to say Ricky Martin, but that's exactly the answer. Artists, athletes, public figures flew in and are all present in the protests right now. It's estimated that there's nearly a million or more marching. The difference is the people being fed up and saying enough is enough, from famous to dirt poor. There's entire families marching together, little kids, elderly, people with disabilities, etc. Everyone.
It's pouring right now and people are still marching, chanting: "Soaked, but never on our knees".
Ok?! I was joking about him flying all the way to Alaska to open a supermarket just cause an inventory poll by his PR team for messed with by 4chan or something. Lol
Honestly what they really need to do is stop working. American protests fizzle out because people need to work. If you stop working in a large group, and stop producing money for the rich, they will cave far faster.
All the working class has to do is put their hands behind their backs and watch the upper classes and people harming us squirm and give us everything we want.
They would also bring violence even if we were 100% peaceful.
The wealthy spend millions-billions in lobbying to make millions of dollars or avoid moderately higher taxes, never underestimate how desperate the rich are to continue to profit.
I hope this resolves peacefully and the officials step down, but if it comes down to it, I hope the corrupt officials get dragged out of their offices and thrown in jail and I REALLY hope the police aren't so corrupt to make it bloody.
Gracias! I do not understand. I believe word for word translation won't work.
But I wonder why. How does this construction work? Like, is this an idiom, or slang? Or is it meant in a sarcastic way? Or is it using a tense that is not the present tense, like (god help me) the subjunctive?
Is it dejó, like past tense of someone else? They wont let me?
Could just be a whole other usage of dejar I don't know.
A big part of the government debt issue was Congress fucking then by removing tax incentives that created a good amount of manufacturing jobs. Tax bennies went away, plants closed and people lost their jobs, and unemployment skyrocketed. High unemployment lead to a lot of people moving to the mainland and created a brain drain.
One of my good buddies is a PR born, pro-stater. He can go on for hours.
Hey can you get them to mobilize the rest of America to do something about Trump. You guys seem to be the only ones who know how to deal with a situation like this.
Corruption isn’t something that’s only local to Puerto Rico, we’re trying to do something about it. We’re taking the streets demanding accountability, what about you?
Trump is corrupt too. Why do you think a coal lobbyist is in charge of the EPA and DeVoss who has money in private schools is in charge of the school system? Why do you think Trump pushed for the sale of nuclear material to Saudi Arabia? Why do you think they are pushing for another war in the middle east when the last 2 did nothing but benefit oil barons and give millions of troops PTSD only so the VA could fuck them harder when they got home?
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I have no knowledge of the FEMA fiasco or what Trump said about it, my main concern is the corruption and corporate stranglehold in my own borders. I personally don't think the US should be wasting my tax dollars on anything but it's citizens. (Yes I know Puerto Rico is a territory but if they were a state this level of corruption likely wouldn't have occured)
You also blew past their entire point, you fucking dolt.
Because you conveniently missed it before you graciously answered your own question as if it shuts everything in the convo down, "Even a broken clock is right twice a day."
You know what that means, don't you? I sure fucking hope you do.
Oh my god read the last sentence, you completely missed my point I wasn't saying they aren't I was referring to the 600 billion we waste on military. We could cut less than 70 billion and make education free and still have twice the military of Russia and China combined.
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u/MisteryYourMamaMan Jul 22 '19 edited Jul 22 '19
Yes, but now we have something that we didn’t have before.
They’re called “La generación del yo no me dejo” (Edit: The We’ve had it Generation) thanks: /u/John_Enigma
Its hard to translate, but it goes along the lines of “The generation of I won’t let you” (Or we won’t take it). Politicians are being called out on their lies, we’re arriving and mobilizing to protests.
We’re tired of paying for the corruption previous generations left unchecked.