Biden has expanded the Medicare privatization schemes of Donald Trump. It has not been good for patients, but it’s been a boon for private equity firms and m...
I’m not gonna redact this jerk’s name, he posted it, it’s his.
the reason I’m posting this link and this comment is because it really eats at me, that so many people of the “younger generations” think my brown polynesian mother who was born into deep poverty and the violence of a military-occupied homeland is, by virtue of being born in 1945, “cruel and shortsighted”, and has oppressed this probably white child somehow.
this rhetoric has been everywhere online for years, I know, the whole “okay boomer” har har bullshit, in which you get to opt out of any actual analysis or praxis because of a fucking fiction that is “generations” with cute names. the last three presidential administrations/congresses/state govts not to mention corporate entities have had millenials top to bottom, and this most recent one has “z” riddling the decaying facade of empire just as thoroughly as any other randomly born humans, you ain’t helpful or special, son.
this shit is just hateful and vile and wild. this dude. this guy, whatever the fuck generation he is, he’s a hateful creep with daddy/mommy issues, and I hope I’m right in not writing off a whole entire generation of people based on LITERALLY THE HAPPENSTANCE OF BIRTHDAY, just because of this prick and his ilk.
In a 1995 law, the U.S. promised to pay its land debt to Hawaiians, thousands of whom are waiting for homes. But Congress, including the state’s own delegation, voted to give the land to other parties.
since there’s been talk about hate towards AAPI people, here’s an article on hate shown towards specifically PI people, Native Hawaiians. excerpt:
The circumvention of the landmark 1995 Hawaiian Home Lands Recovery Act, which has not been previously reported, sent the excess lands to a variety of buyers instead: the Catholic Church; the nonprofit operator of a private school; a developer that intends to sell a site to another company with plans to construct hundreds of private-sector homes there.
The transactions mostly involved lands on Oahu, the state’s most populous island, and were executed during a period in which the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, which manages the trust, faced a severe shortage of developable residential land there. About 11,000 Hawaiians are now seeking residential homesteads on Oahu, nearly double what the figure was when the recovery act passed. As the Star-Advertiser and ProPublica reported in December, the trust has only enough land to accommodate less than a third of those homestead-seekers in single-family homes, although it is moving to develop more multi-family housing. Many waitlisters are homeless, and thousands have died without getting a homestead lease.
Even as the federal government was selling excess properties to private buyers, it offered only two parcels to the trust over the past decade, according to the news organizations’ investigation. And one was for a remote mountainside location that DHHL rejected because it determined that the property — a former solar observatory — wasn’t suitable for residential use or to lease for other purposes.
The findings confirmed the suspicions of Mike Kahikina, who said he had a hunch something was amiss during the eight years he served on the Hawaiian Homes Commission, which decides policy for DHHL.
Kahikina joined the commission in 2011, 16 years after the recovery act was signed. Along with eight other commissioners, his job was to help the department get beneficiaries onto residential, ranching and farming homesteads in a timely way — a task DHHL has struggled with historically. By the time he left in 2019, the federal government’s debt was the same size as when he joined.
Kahikina said he periodically raised questions with DHHL about the land debt, but they were never satisfactorily answered.
The news organizations shared their findings with Kahikina — an Air Force veteran, former state legislator, ordained minister and outreach worker for troubled youth — as he sat outside the West Oahu homestead residence that has been in his family for three generations. With his long salt-and-pepper hair tied back in a bun, Kahikina, who now heads the Association of Hawaiians for Homestead Lands, a statewide nonprofit organization of waitlisters, was stunned as he learned details of the private deals. “You connected the dots for me,” he said, repeating himself to emphasize the point. “It’s like we’re an invisible people.”
not gonna lie, I loathe “aapi” as a lumped-in description, like “asian americans” and “pacific islanders” automatically have something in common, and I’m literally both of those things.
in fact I hate all of those shorthands. the worst is “bipoc”. my tumblr pard complains jokingly of bi-erasure, but if there’s an example I see every day it’s this bipoc-shit. that should definitely stand for bisexual people of color. since when does “bi” mean “black and indigenous” I mean wtf
it’s not just twitter, it’s an academic and media fixation as well. in fact it’s a corporate fixation. over on this side we have the fiction that is WHITE, and on the other side is everyone else, and everyone else is actually kinda all the same, apparently, which is where you get dumb shit like aapi and bipoc.
asians along with everyone else have taken over indigenous pacific islander’s lands. I mean how do these things combine comfortably? indigenous people have been put on the back burner while “reparations” are discussed, which is extremely weird given yeah, black people have been colonizers as well. barack obama and his real estate mogul pal are both actively undermining hawai’ian land, literally and figurative, as I type this, and they’re both black-- how do our interests actually align?
there’s a limitation to race as an analytical tool to begin with. I have a lot of extremely complicated thoughts on this subject and I don’t really want to get into it here or now, but every time someone uses “aapi” I’m like
had to take screenshots of this but since it’s still going around
I read some of this stuff and feel like everyone’s speaking a totally different language that has stipulated to tumblr-speak instead of using a word as what it actually means. the word “asexual” has a specific meaning, which was not once used here, and it’s borderline weird to see it bandied around radblr like it’s the thing to do. I don’t know what’s wrong with some of you, that this is so important to you, when it is so, so very unimportant, on every level.
asexual is not a qualifier, any more than lesbian or straight is. those aren’t qualifiers. the split attraction bullshit is absolutely unhealthy and, frankly, doesn’t exist, but asexual is not a qualifier. “demi” is a made-up thing designed to assign an identity to common sense, but asexual isn’t an identity any more than lesbian or straight is.
this is obnoxious. bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, and asexual describe the only relationships to sex that exist. leave one of those out and you’ve left out an entire relationship to sex; make up twenty more and every one of those twenty are already included in the original four. that’s it, it’s simple. “ace” isn’t a modifier. you can’t be an ace lesbian, that’s like saying you’re a straight gay.
quillette is a fucking sexist mess. they publish some useful shit but every time I read anything over there it’s sandwiched between jordan peterson apologia and discourse on feminism running the world and therefore ruining everything. recommending quillette is similar to radfems who hop into bed with the heritage foundation because they think “well, but THEY hate porn too!” yeah, no. I do not recommend quillette as a space that cares an iota about women’s liberation. or a lot of other things. for example, I don’t think it’s cool at all that a non-trans dude is the one they tapped as the author of a piece titled “the life of a transgender prisoner”. what the fuck does he actually know about that? all he can offer is his opinion, and you know what they say about those.
as a woman who has been inside of maximum security female prison, I can assure you that “tough butch lesbians” do not run shit in prison, nor do they wish to. in fact I can promise that women in prison do not behave at all like men in prison, because women and men behave very differently from each other, and also because in a men’s prison the mostly male guards and their male hierarchy have no problem using other men to do their dirty work for them, but in a women’s prison the mostly male guards and their male hierarchy can tolerate absolutely not a whiff of female independence or insubordination even if it means they can do less work.
also the author of this piece claimed to have done time in multiple prisons and yet somehow he did not learn the single most obvious thing anyone in prison or having anything to do with prison learns, which is that PRISON GUARDS LIE. they lie constantly. they lie to prisoners, to prisoners’ families, to each other, to themselves. they lie to civilian employees and to chaplains and to volunteers and to journalists. they love to bask in the attention, to inflict their own pathologies on everyone, and they just can’t help but lie. when a prison guard drops his (or her) act for even a second they double down on the act afterwards because they can’t help but feel they exposed themselves and now are vulnerable.
so I don’t know what professor higgins here thinks he’s doing making up weird ass shit about women’s prisons and fantasy shit about lesbians who, incidentally, being lesbians, wouldn’t even give a fuck about whatever he thinks is happening here in his fevered imagination, but for those of you who read this, please know that his description of men’s prisons might very well be somewhat true, though I doubt very much it’s all gifts and roses for transwomen in men’s prisons and that he’s seeing things very much the way men see things when they stupidly say shit like “women have it easy” or even “women have it easier in prison than we do”. he might very well understand the dynamics of men’s prisons. but he sure as shit doesn’t know anything about women’s prisons and should probably shut the fuck up about it. also quillette should maybe consult with a more reliable source on women’s prisons than, you know, a dude, since they’re so concerned about the sanctity of gender and whatever.
by Daphna Whitmore The story of how the world awoke to a big injustice is starting to be told. The Pacific Games held this month in Samoa is another chapter. On the podium was Laurel Hubbard, the …
for people who try to use us Polynesians for our indigenous “third gender” roles to boost the trans narrative, here’s how we really think, and also fuck you for your racist shit
act 1, enter expert on uncontacted amazonian tribes: we can totally contact them, it’s okay! they don’t want us to, but we know what’s best!
act 2, expert on uncontacted amazonian tribes killed by arrow shot by uncontacted amazonian tribe
act 3, the media/mourners/greek chorus: WHYYYY? WHYYYY did this tragedy have to happen?
play denouement in which a shakepearean actor smoking a cigarette pauses on the stage to roll her eyes and say, alas! if only there was some kind of expert you could consult who actually knew the answer to this!
Although Hawaii has laws meant to preserve disappearing shorelines, beachfront property owners have been able to bypass them. That’s what happened at an expansive coastal estate officials say the Obamas will live in.
rising from the depths of hiatus to say fuck you, barack. I’m looking forward to reading about your paradise estate getting washed away in a future climate-change related high-tide, and I can only hope you and your horrifying family and friends go under with it
both of us agree that there is no difference between trump and biden except biden is probably worse. also we both agree the entire election has been rigged and what happened starting in iowa and new hampshire actually proves this-- the only reason they couldn’t outright rig nevada is because the caucus was opened for three days and because it’s harry reid’s home state and reid doesn’t like outsiders running his state for him. reid’s a lot of things but he’s not an outright criminal. even california was manipulated. my heart is filled with rage that has no where to go, and one place it will definitely not go is anywhere near a polling place mail-in ballot for joe the fuck I will biden.
no one should go near any polling place on account of rona, but the world could be virus-free and you won’t catch me there for joe fuck all biden.
and if anyone comes at me with “the supreme court tho” let me remind everyone it’s because of biden we have both thomas AND alito. so y’all got it twisted if you think there’s a single argument in biden’s favor you can make.
we aren’t democrats. we’re radical feminists. which means we are actual leftists, not fucking liberals. we owe democrats nothing. they’ve never done shit for me or mine.
I mean it’s not so much hilarious as it is par for the course for wealthy white men and their overall feeling of entitlement to buying the Pacific. it’s literally the playbook they’ve been running for a few hundred years, you waltz in and buy a chief and pour money and propaganda (in whatever the trendy form is, religion or commericals, don’t matter) and then suddenly some snarky white dude with a hard-on for tulsi gabbard is tweeting about how funny this iteration of neo-colonial bullshit is.
activists at barnard college providing “labels”, photographed by susan rennie and published in off our backs: a women’s newsjournal vol. 3 no. 6, february 1973
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there are definitely some astronomers and other scientists having healthy and aware discussions about mauna kea, so that’s a step in the right direction
rising from the depths of hiatus to remark as one periodically must do even on radblr that there’s no such thing as an “asexual lesbian” thnx and good night
I don’t really care how hard you preach decolonization if you use colonizer’s words and ideologies. if you use womxn in a sentence your brain is fundamentally colonized by patriarchy so extreme you can’t even see it. if you think patriarchy isn’t colonization of women by men (womxn by mxn for those of you who can’t read the word “woman” anymore without becoming triggered or whatever-- and yes, I KNOW none of you EVER use “mxn”, weird that, almost like you have put woman up for debate just as a colonized female would) you don’t know what colonization is.
also if you spell Woman as “womxn” you obviously hate women and we have nothing further to talk about, I don’t give a shit how brown you are
