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Apparently there isn’t much news coverage of this outside of the islands

Towns are flooded, homes destroyed and collapsed, roads collapsed, lives at risk, gas leaks from the flood damage

Haleiwa and Waialua are currently evacuated because the 120 year old dam is at risk of bursting

Mind you that damn is owned by Dole. Theyve known about it needing to be fixed for years and years and years. Despite having more than enough money they refuse

The state has been trying to buy it out from them for years so they can fix it, but the sale hasn’t gone through

Keep in mind that the Dole family were the ones who illegally imprisoned Queen Liliuʻokalani and illegally overthrew the monarchy.

If I see another goddamn person say how sad this is for the tourists whose “trips were ruined” and compare a messed up vacation to people losing their homes, belongings, and livelihoods, I’m going to lose my mind

I am so lucky that my family or friend’s are safe and the few whose houses flooded didnt have it too bad, but so so so many were not as fortunate

If you haven’t heard anything about this until now, I suggest looking into it

The sirens didn’t go off until the flood had been going on for hours. Our state government is spending so much money on a fucking monorail we don’t need rather than fixing the infrastructure.

It’s been the locals and Kanaka doing the most to help get people to safety from the start

I don’t really know how to end this

I just need to know people are aware

i am a cis passing trans guy. i wear a mens uniform, have a deepened voice and am on a high dose of T. i am consistently gendered correctly everywhere i go. i regularly call myself a guy and hang out almost exclusively with other guys. i am the clean cut image of a teenage guy.

since reaching this point, whenever another person uses they/them for me, it has always been because they are aware i am trans. the only time someone suddenly becomes "gender inclusive" is when they know i am trans, in which that "gender inclusivity" seems to manifest solely as the bare minimum of not calling me a tranny faggot and instead choosing to use they/them for me despite me consistently referring to myself with he/him and as a guy. its like non-confrontational assholelery.

"oh i wasnt sure what your pronouns are!" arent you people famously the "girl is she, boy is he" crowd. i thought me stating im a guy and visibly presenting as such would produce a pretty clear message. me being trans doesnt make me second to being a guy, it doesnt make me some sort of nonbinary inbetween. im a binary trans man, there is no non-binary aspect to my identity and i make that abundantly clear in every aspect of how i refer to myself.

i used to be pretty comfortable with the idea of being openly trans but everyday im on T and realise more and more how many cis people care less about how you present/identify and more about the fact youre trans makes me more and more enthusiastic about going stealth eventually. i swear theres like 10 cis people capable of seeing past the trans bit, all the rest hear trans and hear "technically not a guy/technically not a girl" and either immediately default to being a blatant asshole or, if theyre non-confrontational and want to die on the hill of "im not transphobic!" but refuse to address their feelings and treatment towards trans people, then they'll just aggressively they/them you no matter what context clues state. i shouldn't have to directly say "stop calling me they/them, i use he/him like all the other guys here, i dont know why you're assuming im even vaguely comfortable with you treating me different."

all the love to nonbinary trans people it sucks that cis people use your existence as a scapegoat to misgender binary trans people under the guise of "being progressive" but realistically are just choosing to deny a trans persons identity because they havent reached the point of actually viewing trans people as their identities. ill make a damn good focaccia for you guys.