03-16-2026, 09:32 PM
(03-16-2026, 07:49 PM)ironyak Wrote: HJ - And imagine what your life would be if you refused to buy or use anything from a company whose CEO's/financial investors/benefactors you despised. Starbucks? Hilo Benioff Medical Center? Amazon? Facebook? X? McDonalds? Uber?
Yes, imagine all the local coffee shops, mom & pop small businesses, independent and unique online communities not gamifying hatred, local grindz made with local ingredients by locals, and transportation options where most of the money goes to the drivers instead of the venture cap bros... what a nightmare! (In short that's a good boycott list, and you're not the first to make something like it)
If you're "voting with your dollars" by choosing Starlink, how does voting against your own interests by funding the corpos' and billionaires' enshittification of everything for everyone besides themselves make any sense? Unless by helping accelerate the instability and Balkanization you're working to achieve Hawai'i sovereignty, it's hard to see how such choices actually support and benefit those who live and work here in Hawai'i.
(03-16-2026, 08:23 PM)MyManao Wrote: Starlink
If voting with one's dollars is Starlink.. well, then you're voting for an infantile, fed on the breast of apartheid, spoiled brat who dreams of world dominance. Essentially, the Fourth Reich.
When I can walk into the Hilo, Kurtistown, Keaau or Pahoa Post Office and not see a mountain of brown boxes with a smile on them, I'll get rid of my StarLink.
Deal?