They probably donated themselves but that wasn't enough PR for them. Gotta milk it.
With the kind of money they got going? They could probably rebuild the entire island from the ground up. But nah, let's shame Johnny from Seattle into coughing up half his paycheck
Or, you know, have the government build up the fucking island again? It blows my mind how your entire island can get destroyed but people still have to start a crowdfunding to cover things. Is this really what USonians want to deem normal?
Guess so. And it's coming to everywhere infested with the neolib rot. The sheer amount of times I've seen an ad for crowdfunding medical aid for some little child's lethal inborn disease or condition right between news about new churches being built is staggering
Yeah but if you can't afford your kid's healthcare, you should just let it die a painful death. Or get yourself in life long debt, you know. There is no money to save your kid, the companies stole it all.
GoFundMe is probably the largest healthcare provider there at this point
According to NYTimes they have donated a combined 10 mil. USD.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/us/oprah-dwayne-johnson-maui-fires-relief.html
Not too bad, I am honestly rather surprised! Although I do have to wonder what percentage of their wealth this sum is. Compared to a prole donating a hundred bucks while on minimum wage
Even if Oprah had donated this amount singlehandedly, it would have been 0.4% of her net worth of $2.5 billion.
The problem I have with the meme is not just that the donation is a measly sum that did not require any courage from them whatsoever, it's also the fact Hawaii's problems are in part because of global warming and in part directly because the USA wants to genocide its natives and turn it into resort islands for crackers. Disasters like these attract the worst of wealthy like vultures. You get people like these two who use the victims to boost their PR ratings and vulture capitalists looking to buy disaster-struck land for cheap. Meanwhile the US state continues to treat Hawaiians as third class citizens.
Why does Oprah look like that? Did she get plastic surgery or something? She looks very different to how I would expect her to look these days.
Heavy make-up.
https://static.oprah.com/2016/09/201610-omag-oprah-contour-pinterest-promo-r2-949x534.jpg
The following has her looking down but her face and hands show pretty typical signs of aging.
https://static.oprah.com/images/o2/201610/201610-omag-oprah-contour-trying-products-450x450.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui
The island of Maui (/ˈmaʊi/; Hawaiian: [ˈmɐwwi]) is the second-largest island of the state of Hawaii at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2), and the 17th-largest island in the United States
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-did-hawaii-wildfires-start-what-know-about-maui-big-island-blazes-2023-08-11/
Aug 21 (Reuters) - Wildfires on Hawaii's Maui have killed at least 114 people, forced tens of thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate the island and devastated the historic resort city of Lahaina. It's the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
