Ok, but why a link to fox news?
They post a lot of links to Fox. They are a Republican so Fox is “news” to them.
Which is why I’m blocking OP now. I won’t be having any Nazi propagandists posting on my feed if I can help it. Fuck Republicans. Fuck Fox News. Fuck em now, fuck em tomorrow, fuck em all, forever.
If you block them, you can’t down vote them.
Boycott Fox News.
Fox Lies always gets my downvotes.
Here’s a non-Fox link. BBC version of the same story.
We encourage people to do this for Fox News links.
While Fox News isn’t actively blacklisted at this time, our stance is that we do prefer other sources/outlets if the same story is available. As I mentioned in another comment, we read both of these articles and they contain basically the same content, so we left this post up, and that is basically how these posts are being evaluated at this time (checking to make sure they aren’t misleading/reporting incorrect information).
Also as mentioned in my other comment, we do also understand that a lot of users do not want to click Fox News links and support them, so I do also encourage people to post links to other outlets in the comments so users can still read the article if they choose to do so.
sourcing an article from fox “news” is insane, so many other places for the same story. fuck fox. really.
OP is a conservative, so to them Fox is “news”
Our stance is that we prefer if people use other outlets if the same story is available elsewhere, although it isn’t outright blacklisted (at this time).
We skimmed this article and the article posted above from BBC, and they contain basically the same information so we are leaving it up as it seems this article wasn’t written in bad faith.
That said, we do understand that users do not want to click Fox News links and support them.
This is a constant talking point between the mods that is actively monitored and discussed on whether we should continue to allow it, but for the time being, we are just doing our best to encourage users to use other outlets and reading the articles and comparing them to what other outlets have reported to ensure they aren’t misleading or reporting incorrect information before we decide to leave it up.
Linking any Fox News is laughable regardless of the article’s subject
Lol everyone calling out OP for posting fox ‘news’ but crickets from OP. Typical.
My neighbors are going for 2 weeks in a week. They’ve been planning for more than a year. This will be their last chance to go as a family of 4. I can’t see them canceling.
Visiting a burning, inhospitable hellscape where people are actively dying and the rest are having their entire lives destroyed, and doing it for fun because “well, we’ve been planning it for a while, and want to go somewhere as a family and can’t come up with anything else exotic enough for our standards on short notice” is incredibly trashy and selfish.
They sound like shitty people, honestly, and I hope they have an awful time.
Talking of ‘having their whole lives destroyed’ - presumably the people actually working in and running the hotels want them there - or else they would be closed
presumably the people actually working in and running the hotels want them there - or else they would be closed
It might not be up to them. I imagine some places are run by shitty corporate overlords that don’t give two shits about the devastation.
REITs own a large portion of hotels in Maui, and they’re required by law to do what is most profitable to the shareholders.
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Oh yeah I bet their economy can handle no tourism when it needs money the most. This is really bad for them. They need to encourage tourism but what is there left?
This is happening in the wealthiest nation in human history. The government has an unquestionable obligation to provide relief for these people. Suggesting that keeping the victims of this disaster in the area and going to work while their homes are still burning is an acceptable answer is revolting. Fuck this disgusting “but what about the economy” attitude.
We went to the big island during an eruption in 2018. I didn’t want to go but my family wouldn’t cancel. The air was full of vog. It was gross and everyone in our group was cranky. I’m sure your neighbor will not get the trip they planned for.
vog
Is that a typo or the actual term?
It’s the actual term.
I’ve seen VOC for Volatile Organic Compounds, maybe that’s Volatile Organic Gasses.
If we forced airlines to honor rescheduling for not a huge cost then this wouldn’t be as much of an issue. But I imagine those thousands in ticket prices can’t really be burned without canceling the trip for the foreseeable future.
Nows the time for them to use that travel insurance and get a full refund. They may be putting themselves in danger and, regardless, they will be vacationing where people are actively suffering.
Are they staying near Lahaina?
I do not know their detailed plans.
Ask them to leave the keys to their house with you, and give you the alarm codes. 🤫
They usually do.
The fox website should be banned on here.
I know this is more “celebrity” than news, but I’d seen discussions on whether it was better to visit (as a misguided attempt to help via tourism dollars) or stay away.
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These aren’t from this current crisis, but I have a feeling the sentiments haven’t changed much:
https://mymodernmet.com/lily-hiilani-okimura-hawaii-tourism/
https://www.irreview.org/articles/hawaii-tourism-opposite-of-a-paradise-for-locals
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If you’d actually bothered reading any of those, you would have realise that that wasn’t actually true (almost none of the money actually goes to the natives and nor do many of the jobs), but sure, keep your head in the sand, I hear it’s cosy, just like the fantasy that you know better than the people actually living there.
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