• Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netB
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    Hawaii is a victim of colonialism to this day. The sovereignty of hawaii was illegally stolen. Every day natives of hawaii are priced out of their own homes by their alleged fellow citizens. A genocide beneath the very fingers that so like to point towards other nations.

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    Would Hawaii live in peace and prosperity if it were suddenly its own independent state?

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      It would be up to the people who live there to figure out how to run things. This is certainly not an argument for US to continue occupying them.

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        how is it an “occupation” when Hawaiians themselves voted to become a state by a 94+% majority?

        On June 27, 1959, a referendum asked residents of Hawaiʻi to vote on the statehood bill; 94.3% voted in favor of statehood and 5.7% opposed it. (source)

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          The choice was to become a state or remain a territory. Either yes or no would have had Hawaiian peoples occupied. Statehood could be seen as a regaining a scrap of self determination but all it ended up doing was impoverishing the natives and ceding all wealth to colonizing capitalists. This is a primarily function of bourgeois democracy.

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            by voting to become a state - especially to such an overwhelming majority - you can hardly argue a dispositive attitude towards the US being there or towards joining the union. so, not only have you moved the goalposts, you’re arguing a straw man and your own emotions.

            I’m sticking with provable facts.

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              Once again they were given a choice between becoming a state or remaining a territory. Not for independence. It’d be like offering a scrap of bread to a starving man in exchange for the man legitimizing your ability to keep him malnourished.

              The ole adage of "the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited " comes to mind.

              Since you can’t be assed to read your own damn wiki article I assume you’re just in bad faith.

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                Once again they were given a choice between becoming a state or remaining a territory

                Hawaiians could have protested, revolted, or one of many other options. But they didn’t.

                That’s the thing about facts— your opinions don’t magically make them untrue, regardless of how many folksy sayings or logical fallacies you conjure.

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            sigh…

            Should I kill you with my sword or with my gun?

            Sorry, “I want to live” was not an option on the ballot

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                your lack of ability to imagine another option (such as revolt, etc.) does not mean you “win” the argument. it just means you lose because you lack imagination.

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                  YOUR ARGUMENT is that the result of this referendum matters. It doesn’t because, as you’ve identified, both options are the same. As for Hawaiian resistance, they’ve been fighting continuously for a hundred years and, like every other liberation movement against the USA, have been ruthlessly suppressed by the fascist police and petty-bourgeoise militia of the “middle class”. And, like every other liberation struggle, victory is inevitable as the empire continues to crumble beneath the weight of its sins.

                  Also, neat how you’ve got five devoted followers upvoting you within two minutes on every one of your shitty empire-shilling posts for the last several hours thinkin-lenin

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            note the dates. it was forcibly annexed by a coup government

            the facts don’t support your assertions. even if they did, it’s irrelevant because….

            the later vote to join as a state took place well afterwards

            just as I said and the facts I gave support. since 94% of people voted to become a state, no rational person would call it an “occupation”.

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              lmao you illiterate jackass. a sham vote to join a nation that overthrew your actual government by a bunch of people who moved there specifically to move the needle on that exact vote means nothing. christ, you liberals really love white nationalism as much as the flag fuckers do

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          from your own link

          In 1897, over 21,000 Natives, representing the overwhelming majority of adult Hawaiians, signed anti-annexation petitions in one of the first examples of protest against the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalaniʻs government.[143] Nearly 100 years later, in 1993, 17,000 Hawaiians marched to demand access and control over Hawaiian trust lands and as part of the modern Hawaiian sovereignty movement.[144] Hawaiian trust land ownership and use is still widely contested as a consequence of annexation. According to scholar Winona LaDuke, as of 2015, 95% of Hawaiʻiʻs land was owned or controlled by just 82 landholders, including over 50% by federal and state governments, as well as the established sugar and pineapple companies.[144] The Thirty Meter Telescope is planned to be built on Hawaiian trust land, but has faced resistance as the project interferes with Kanaka indigeneity.[clarify][145]

          If you think a referendum from 1959 fairly represents the interests of the native population then what else is there to say.

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            If you think a referendum from 1959 fairly represents the interests of the native population then what else is there to say.

            that it does, and you have failed to prove otherwise despite quoting a block f text you clearly don’t understand— OR are intentionally misrepresenting, hoping everyone else here is too stupid to realize you’re trying to pull a fast one on them.

            Fortunately, I’m not the idiot you think I am.

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                A referendum to either become a state or remain a territory is not relevant to the question of the occupation.

                only because you’ve moved the goalposts when you couldn’t win that argument with facts.

                People were never given a choice of independence

                the people always ave that choice. they can protest, revolt, etc. Did the Bolsheviks just ask the Tsars to pretty please step aside?

                Seems that you’re intentionally arguing in bad faith here.

                I’m not the one ignoring facts, employing logical fallacies and hurling personal insults when I don’t “win” online arguments.

                Clearly you’re a much bigger idiot than I thought you were.

                can’t argue with facts, so playskool insults it is. classy. no wonder I see he molding full of you getting posts and comments removed, and you’re totally banned form lemmy.world.

                also explains this post https://lemmy.ml/post/2756876

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                  only because you’ve moved the goalposts when you couldn’t win that argument with facts.

                  I didn’t move any goal posts. I said Hawaii is an occupied territory, and you came back with BuT ThEy HaD a RefErEnduM. Forgetting to mention that the referendum wasn’t actually about independence and that the people of Hawaii were never given a choice of independence by their occupiers.

                  There is no false dichotomy here. It’s hilarious seeing your comment history where you communicate through memes like a 5 year old child.

                  the people always ave that choice. they can protest, revolt, etc. Did the Bolsheviks just ask the Tsars to pretty please step aside?

                  People in Hawaii are revolting against your regime as we speak.

                  The facts are that you made false claim and now you don’t even have the decency to admit it. No point having further discussion with a liar.

                  also explains this post https://lemmy.ml/post/2756876

                  love living rent free in your collective heads

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        True, just clarifying the best case scenario. Did the Hawaiian people recently vote to leave the union that I am unaware of?

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      Judging by their history, probably not. Just like people’s everywhere, Hawaiians have a very violent history full of warfare!

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nuʻuanu

      “Caught between the Hawaiian Army and a 1000-foot drop, over 700 Oʻahu warriors either jumped or were pushed over the edge of the Pali (cliff). In 1898 construction workers working on the Pali road discovered 800 skulls which were believed to be the remains of the warriors that fell to their deaths from the cliff above.”

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    The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, let us die in Maui fires, devastated our universal healthcare, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother’s hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon, but the destroyer of independence.

    Always has been.