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

  • 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.