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I feel like a lot of people in the notes donât really understand this fully.
As a Hawaii resident, and someone who saw this headline and the many others from this same news source, this rubs me the wrong way a bit.
This tweet isnât necessary wrong, but itâs worded in a way to prioritize outrage, which as I understand it is how Twitter works.
The point is that yes, Hawaii has a problem with the prioritization of tourism, which takes resources away from residents.
But with this particular headline, itâs framing the issue kind of misleadingly.
These tourists are being kicked out so residents have the room and resources to recoup. Theyâre being moved to Oahu because thatâs where the main international airport is, so itâll be easier for them to leave when there are flights available.
Theyâre not being given luxury accommodations and allowed to live out their original vacation plans while residents have to just sit in the charred wreckage of their homes. Theyâre getting kicked the fuck out, as they should be in this situation.
There are resources available for Maui residents right now, including shelters and organizations collecting money specifically for community needs. (Source, source 2, both from the same news outlet that this headline is from)
So, again, itâs like kicking out house guests from your party when you need to deal with a sudden house fire.
Now, what you CAN be outraged about is the need to spend this amount of time and money kicking out house guests from a party during an emergency in addition to saving yourself and loved ones at all, BECAUSE THOSE ARENâT INVITED GUESTS
-they just showed up and started hanging out in your house and eating your food. Sometimes they leave money but usually they just leave trash
-your local HOA has seen this and looooves it because actually theyâre getting lots of money out of it, so they start catering towards your uninvited guests and handing out invitations to your awesome house party. Which you didnât plan or want and would like to stop
-your house is a permanent party house and you canât even get to work or a quiet minute to yourself
-and now itâs on fire
The point is that, even though these resources need to be used to get tourists out for legitimate reasons right now, a disaster like this in most other states would likely not include a headline about how moving visitors out of the area is a needed priority. (Bc there wouldnât be as many proportional to the population, except for other obvious tourist-y cities.)
And while there are shelters and other resources for residents right now, by necessity some of those resources are going to tourists, because thatâs how things are here.
Iâve seen some people who seem to think that the news agency who wrote the headline is biased or that itâs a wording/framing issue, which I donât think is the main point here.
I just felt this tweet was more focused on making people angry than actually providing information, although Iâm not on Twitter so who knows, maybe thereâs a whole thread diving deeper into the issue. But for tumblr, hereâs a little more of the story.
Tl;dr: This is a tweet with limited context if you havenât been following the story; this isnât a case of tourists taking 100% of the resources leaving none for residents, they are being kicked out so residents can recover. But this extra step would be unnecessary if Hawaii wasnât so commercialized.
And if you want to help Maui residents, the second source link up there leads to an article listing some orgs that are collecting donations. Iâll put it here again for convenience.
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returning, disloyal tumblr users (TWITTER DEVIANTS) should know about the WIZARD TITHE !
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people in the notes suggesting it was "improper" for the juror to do this or that it "introduced bias" to the court proceeding đ the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in
A juror was held in criminal contempt and fined more than $11k for researching his case online. The man, named as Stephen Miele, told other
As a member of the worldâs SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.
For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:
First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors canât just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury thatâs considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, âI think the victimâs expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.â
And you might be like, âBut WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert youâre talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.â But this person cannot be swayed.
Like, we can all agree that would be bad.
So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didnât fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why itâs a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.
So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?
The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.
The key term you want to use here is âcredibility.â
The job of a jury is to decide what are called âquestions of fact.â Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the âquestions of lawâ --- like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court youâre in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which sideâs version of the facts has more credibility.
For instance, if the prosecutionâs witness says X and the defenseâs witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.
So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, âIn order to properly assess the ICE agentâs credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?â
There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors arenât educated about what they can and canât do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.
Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, âwhat to do as a jurorâ is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.
this is so compelling and heartbreaking and important and i wanted to share it. this is the reality of getting an abortion even with roe v wade in place and it's about to get worse.
sure! maybe the u.s. lied about and/or caused mass death in japan, china, korea, the ussr, guatemala, indonesia, cuba, congo, peru, laos, vietnam, cambodia, grenada, lebanon, libya, el salvador, nicaragua, iran, panama, iraq, kuwait, somalia, bosnia, sudan, afghanistan, pakistan, bulgaria, macedonia, bahamas, cuba again, south africa, bolivia, marshall islands, greece, portugal, philippines, ecuador, albania, argentina, angola, jamaica, indonesia, seychelles, haiti, guyana, chad, thailand, algeria, brazil, dominican republic, ghana, mexico, uruguay, colombia, chile, russia, venezuela, yugoslavia, palestine, yemen, cuba again, the u.s. itself........ but! ....and hear me out here..... maybe this time they're telling the truth & they really have the interests of people and democracy at heart :)

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Iâm about 90% sure the economy is never gonna âimproveâÂ
this is capitalism in itâs final form
this is it honeyÂ
except, you know, those companies that do a charitable thing for every thing they sell
thatâs kinda new and interesting. benevolent capitalism
Pay attention, class: This is what it looks like when one is unwilling to consider new information.
Itâs not new information, though. Itâs misinformation.
First, itâs not that new.
Did you know that there was a time in U.S. historyâwhich is by definition recent historyâwhen a corporation was generally intended to have some sort of public interest that they served? I mean, thatâs the whole point of allowing corporations to form. Corporations are recognized by the commonwealth or state, and this recognition is not a right but a privilege, in exchange for which the state (representing the people) is allowed to ask, âSo what does this do for everyone else?â
The way the economy is now is a direct result of a shift away from this thinking and to one where a corporation is an entity unto itself whose first, last, and only concern is an ever-increasing stream of profits. What youâre calling âbenevolent capitalismâ isnât benevolent at all. Itâs a pure profit/loss calculation designed to distract fromânot even paper over or stick a band-aid onâthe problems capitalism creates. And the fact that youâre here championing it as âbenevolent capitalismâ is a sign of how ell itâs working.
Letâs take Toms, as one example. The shoe thatâs a cause. Buy a pair of trendy shoes, and a pair of trendy shoes will be given away to someone somewhere in the world who canât afford them.
Thatâs not genuine benevolence. Thatâs selling you, the consumer, on the idea that you can be benevolent by buying shoes, that the act of purchasing these shoes is an act of charity. The reality is that their model is an inefficient means of addressing the problems on the ground that shoelessness represents, and severely disrupts the local economies of the locations selected for benevolence.
(Imagine what it does to the local shoemakers, for instance.)
The supposed act of charity is just a value add to convince you to spend your money on these shoes instead of some other shoes. Itâs no different than putting a prize in a box of cereal.
Heck, you want to see how malevolent this is?
Go ask a multinational corporation that makes shoes or other garments to double the wages of their workers. Theyâll tell you they canât afford it, that itâs not possible, that consumers wonât stand for it, that youâll drive them out of business and then no one will have wages.
But the fact that a company can give away one item for every item sold shows you what a lie this is. A one-for-one giving model represents double the cost of labor and materials for each unit that is sold for revenue. Doubling wages would only double the labor.
So why are companies willing to give their products away (and throw them away, destroy unused industry with bleach and razors to render them unsalvageable, et cetera) but theyâre not willing to pay their workers more?
Because capitalism is the opposite of benevolence.
âCharityâ is by definition exemplary, above and beyond, extraordinary, extra. âCharityâ is not something that people are entitled to. You give people a shirt or shoes or some food and call it charity, and youâre setting up an expectation that you can and will control the stream of largesse in the future, and anything and everything you give should be considered a boon from on high.
On the other hand, once you start paying your workers a higher wage, youâre creating an expectation. Youâre admitting that their labor is more valuable to you than you were previously willing to admit, and itâs hard to walk that back.
Plus, when people have enough money for their basic needs, theyâre smarter and stronger and warier and more comfortable with pushing back instead of being steamrolled over. They have time and money to pursue education. They can save money up and maybe move away. They can escape from the system that depends on a steady flow of forced or near-forced labor.
So companies will do charitable âbuy one, give oneâ and marketing âbuy one, get oneâ even though these things by definition double the overhead per unit, but they wonât do anything that makes a lasting difference in the standard of living for the people.
Capitalism has redefined the world so that the baseline of ethics is âHow much money can we make?â and every little good deed over and above that is saintly.
But thereâs nothing benevolent about throwing a scrap of bread to someone whoâs starving in a ditch because you ran them out of their home in the first place.
This is one of the best anti-capitalist posts on the entire site.