You don't think we care about Hawaii, huh? Then explain how a native of Honolulu got elected president. Next thing you'll tell me this country has a racism problem, to which I will again point to Obama.
You know what country never elected Obama? Racist China. The very racist Chinese are trying to take Obama's homeland because they hate your faded bumper sticker from 2008.
Tbh i find it entirely believable that your average CPC member regards Hawaiian peope more fondly than your average , if even just for a lack of racist propaganda as a child
You know what would really own the chinese and russians? Not neglecting Hawai'i.
This is like when Iran complained that LGBTQ-rights were used as a wedge issue by the US to foment revolution.
Oh this is one of my favorite lib narratives. Pointing out when the US does a bad thing is ENEMY PROPAGANDA. See also: pointing out when the ENEMY does a good thing is ENEMY PROPAGANDA.
Didn't this also happen in the UK when got hold of Conservative plans to sell out the NHS to US insurance firms
IIRC the conversation ended up just being about how the document was leaked by rUsSiAn HaCkErS and discussing its contents would be playing into Putin's hands or something
That narrative? The government should be helping its citizens. I am a very smart liberal and I definitely don't just categorize things as bad/right wing and good/liberal.
It's kind of fucked up how the overton window in the US has shifted so far to the right that the mere idea that a government should ever help its people is foreign to them.
government helping people is soviet ideology. the government should keep its corrupt bureaucratic hands out of the free market and its magical ability to innovate solutions (don't look up what corporate subsidies are)
Dunk on me all you want to, but just here to ask, what could be done better? As far as I know this was a natural disaster (probably worsened by climate change). I'm sure there are for profit groups that are helping Hawaii just out of monetary gains, but aren't government emergency services on the island helping?
I hope this doesn't come across as me defending capitalism, but is the argument here that it would better if Hawaii was independent of the US? And would that actually help their ability to respond to a disaster such as this?
already happened with the earthquake in turkey. tons of headlines like "THEY'RE ONLY DOING THIS TO TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP"
also similar normal ones are had any time china bails a country out of IMF debt to the USA by giving them a 0% interest loan (and subsequently forgiving it)