Having people shooting themselves up in public bathrooms doesn’t negate the sanitary benefits of having public bathrooms. It’s just an excuse for having poor public services.

We had safe supervised injection sites in my province/City. It was awesome, I live in an area that had three of them, way less people on the street overdosing, way less garbage and fecal matter…and this was with a housing crisis and a rise in homelessness. Our premier just ended this program in April and I’ve noticed a large difference, way more garbage and fecal matter on the street, people are more agitated and things feel less safe. It was nice treating people with minimum decency while it lasted.

I live in Vancouver and there are literally no bathrooms, public or private, in the densest parts of the city for this exact reason. I’ve damn near pissed myself on long transit trips because all of the restaurants near transit stations won’t let you use the bathroom even if you buy something.

You used to be able to pay to use the bathroom by buying something, now you can’t relieve yourself even if you wanted to pay. Like build coin operated toilets like they have in Europe at this point because it’s better than literally not having access to any bathrooms at all.

A bit how the governments doesn’t build more houses to meet the demand and make it more affordable but instead make anti homeless benches etc. Almost like it would stop people being homeless

We spend so much time and effort trying to disuade the people with “negative behavior” who we have discarded from our “civil society”

Where I live the grocery stores have carts whose wheels lock if you try to take them too far from the store. As if anyone trying to do that would know until they couldn’t push them anymore. Thing is the store doesn’t unlock them. Somehow they make it back and then they end up to front carts. People will try to use them until they realize they can’t be moved. Some do get unlock, but the wheels aren’t round anymore. People dragged them flattening out part of the wheel. If there are no other carts, which happens often because there are so many with locked wheels, you get to click and clack through the store with everyone looking at you like you are some kind of asshole.

There are literally hundreds of cameras. Including ones raised high on trailers in the parking lot. The same pole has blinking blue lights to simulate a police cruiser and a loud speaker reminding you the parking lot is being monitored. Back in the store as you walk in there is an electric gate and a camera and monitor. On which is writing which also reminds you you are being monitored. You have to wait to let them get a picture of you before the gate will open.

But the best of all of this. After you finish checking out your groceries as if you work there, you have to keep your reciept handy before your cart is checked by armed guards. Body armor. A gun. Not the police (as if that would make it better, but at least their job is to “protect and serve” the public) As you walk up they are usually shooting the shit with each other, and they maintain that pleasantness while they check your receipt (as if they actually are). You are at complete ease until you realize you went through a security checkpoint with a riot squad.

All of this. All. Of. This. Because our society sees it as acceptable to punish the entire public for lack of empathy for those who need it most and to prevent petty crime.

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Nationalize the drug industry.

I used to watch that show religiously. This was the last episode I watched, I couldn’t take it anymore.

true story for berlin

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