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That solution includes the demonization of homelessness and the involuntary (for-profit) incarceration and treatment.

Billionaires profiting from human misery; poverty industrial complex.

Vancouver, B.C. Canada billionaire (who behind the scenes funds elections of far-right political candidates here and Alberta - e.g. Take Back Alberta far-right group) has the Pacific Prosperity Network.
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PPN funded the anti-addition, anti-homeless "Vancouver Is Dying" propaganda - used to elect a political neophyte mayor of Vancouver; used by TBA in recent Alberta election.

Back to Lonsdale: model acts (carbon copy legislation distributed to U.S. legislatures to enact neoconservative agendae) are a bane of U.S. politics.

Like ALEC/others, the Cicero Institute churns out model acts including this gem:

Reducing Street Homelessness Act
https://invisiblepeople.tv/private-prisons-for-homeless-criminalization
https://persagen.com/docs/cicero_institute.html 
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https://persagen.com >> seach: 
"cicero institute" OR "joe lonsdale"
"Reducing Street Homelessness Act"
"chip wilson" OR "pacific prosperity network"
"vancouver is dying"
homeless* AND discriminat*
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See also: Billionaires, existential risk from
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111071729378344690

#JoeLonsdale #Musk #DefundBillionaires #homelessness #CiceroInstitute #corporations #DefundCorporations #neofascism #ModelActs #ModelLegislatin #discrimination #GOP #GOPmenace #capitalism #socialism #PublicHealth

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