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

  • Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org
    21·
    17 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·
      17 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
        31·
        17 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
            21·
            17 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.

            • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
              12·
              17 days ago

              boo, get out of here, justifying your negative presumptions.

              have a nice day though.

              • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
                11·
                17 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·
                  17 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.