• atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

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

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      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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        2 years ago

        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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            2 years ago

            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