This is why it angers me when people say "There’s so much help available, just ask! THIS is the level of help available! Homeless people, even children on the streets in the middle of winter.

Same thing with food insecurity. Food banks closed, and when they’re open only allowing you to go three times every 6 months. The rest of the time you can just starve! BUt jUst aSK fOR heLp!

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    In the US, they fine food kitchens for trying to feed people. Any type of shelter, like tents or fabricated shanties, are destroyed in police sweeps with any meager possessions one might have accumulated being binned. The new definition of middle class in the US is a family having a car to sleep in after they get off of work. Hard to pull yourself up by your boot straps when the rich keep stealing your boots.

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    Does this mean that the British diaspora could no longer depend on their colonial free riding, stolen fertile land, strategic trading locations, good climate, geography, and other unfair advantages to compensate for their inferior politics and ideology? I hope that they are not criticizing Communists for unavoidable starvation when the actual planned starvation is occuring in Capitalist countries. I can also comment about the corruption in Canada that leads to the planned shortage of essential public services frontline like in the healthcare sector which are harming taxpowers in First Nation communities and people of color in rural communities. Despite the claim that they need to nationalize essential public services, the Canadian government sabotage the public sector in favor of the private sector. They stop wage increase to match inflation rates, underfund sectors that were dominated by women and marginalized races, and replace permanant workers with temporary part-time workers to create precarious working conditions.