Photo of Rita Moreno in Stephen Sondheim’s West Side Story, singing the song “America”. Rough translation: You gotta vote, it’s worth it, if everyone votes, PRicans gonna save it

Hope posting feels like the best thing to do rn

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    20 days ago

    I don’t understand, us territories like PR can’t vote.

    are they cheerleading voters in US States?

    I’ve never seen West side story, so maybe I don’t understand the context.

    • Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org
      21·
      20 days ago

      if they move to the mainland, they can vote and there is a HUGE Puerto Rican population in several of the swing states. they are encouraging the PR who are on the mainland to vote but I sure hope the rest of the population is listening too.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        20 days ago

        oh, i see.thanks for the context.

        That’s part of West side story?

        is she telling Puerto ricans to go live in the United States so they can vote, or is she cheerleading the Puerto ricans already in the United States to vote?

        I think there are so many versions of WSS that I haven’t watched any of them.

        • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          20 days ago

          Well, to start with, this isn’t the actual song lyrics, it’s playing off them.

          However, in West Side Story, the character is a Puerto Rican living in the mainland US, so she would have been eligible to vote.

          The original song has a lot of sarcastic banter, and celebrates and criticizes life in both Puerto Rico and New York.

          Love me some Rita Moreno, in everything she did!

          https://genius.com/Rita-moreno-america-lyrics

          Edit: Oops, here’s a non-Bezos clip of the song

          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AHewr2yqfDU

          Now go vote if you haven’t already.

            • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              20 days ago

              I said “if you haven’t already.” Good for you. I sent mine in too, all six pages and blue down the line. While you were down voting and commenting, I added a video clip that’s not linked to Amazon. You can watch, and then read the meme lyrics in the same voice.

                • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
                  1·
                  20 days ago

                  lol u went from “I don’t understand how voting votes?” to “I already voted and I’ll get the last word dammit” in like 4 comments so ok Varys

                  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
                    1·
                    20 days ago

                    nah, My question was about West side story, but i was correcting voting procedure in my first comment:

                    “us territories like PR can’t vote.”

                    their response was the straw man of “but if they moved to the US they can vote” which…yea, not a great answer, but I didn’t want to call them out for a non-answer misdirect redundancy.

                    when they toss further pedantic assumptions at me?

                    I’ll break it down.