They’re driving the prices up because they’re buying all of it. Now they’re reselling it for higher and higher prices and making huge profits. Some of them are charging ridiculous prices just to let other people use it. So now there are people who can’t afford it even if some is available, because it costs so much. People are getting sick and dying because they don’t have any!
Oh wait. Did I say hand sanitizer? Housing. I meant housing. Damn autocorrect.
Photo credit: Does anyone know where this image was taken or who took it?
It’s about time I talk about the righteous anger all solarpunks have with capitalism and how all subversive action is necessary action, all mutual aid is essential mutual aid, how it’s okay to be pissed at the system in which we live. Peace, love, and understanding can be afforded to people, not to the system which exploits them. This isn’t the hippie movement 2.0, non-violence isn’t always an answer, especially when violence is counted as property damage.
In short, feel that righteous anger, it’s justified. We’re solarpunks, that doesn’t mean we’re pushovers, to attack the state we must speak its language.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh brings up that 25% of Canadians are going hungry because they can’t afford groceries and that he would tax corporations to fix this inequality, and members of the Conservative Party of Canada start laughing.
That rate of inflation for groceries was the highest it’s been since September 1981, more than 40 years ago.
He knows what he’s talking about too, considering he’s the MP for Burnaby, BC last I checked. BC has the among highest rate of child poverty in Canada, at 18% or so, meaning that over 150k children go without a meal in my province every day and these evil fucking bastards think it’s funny
This is even worse than I thought, somehow.
Last month the NDP introduced a motion that would do exactly what Singh asked today: tax corporations to help low-income Canadians not starve, and not only did the Conservatives vote it down, the Liberal Party of Canada did too.
Trudeau is just as bad as these scum of the Earth Conservatives. The Liberals alone had enough votes to pass this motion and start helping us, but they apparently had other priorities.
