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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We'll see how it goes. Politics in Hawaii are very.. different that the continent. There are very entrenched power structures still in place from the kidnapping of Queen Liluokalani. Effectively the same sugar planter families responsible for the coup still largely control business and politics on the islands. And they were eugenics practicing but jobs looking to maintain a plantation system modeled after slave systems in the American South and the Caribbean, complete with racial heirarchies and the Master and Servants act. The impacts of that history get largely glazed over with lei stands and Aloha.

Most people outside of the islands probably don't know terms like "Asian settler colonialism" or recognize that in large part, the modern Hawaiian sovereignty movement is as rightwing and reactionary as the boogalou boys, and as kookie as the sovcits movement. Hawaii might be a blue state but it's hardly a monolith.

Also, Green, Schatz and Case all suck massively. I can't find any one to run to replace Case.

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[–] agapecaptain@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The reasoning explained in the article makes sense to me, but as a non-lawyer I've learned that lawyer logic is not always the same as the kind the rest of the universe operates on. But I sure hope this works!

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does Citizens United even matter that much anymore? We're at the point where individual billionaires are making massive campaign donations and even transparent bribes. Removing the ability for corporations to contribute to campaign finance just reveals one layer of dark money, but it doesn't solve the problem of the power of wealth in politics.

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