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Sorry Comrade, that sounds hellish :(
Some of what you say reminds me of what the Death Panel podcasters have to say about surplus labor and how disabled people are treated as less than human under capitalism.
People in the UK are regularly starved to death for the crime of being disabled. So many news stories of disabled people having their benefits stopped and then starving to death. Two names just off the top of my head, Errol Graham and Mark Wood. And no-one even cares, these news stories generate no outrage but just victim blaming "He should have tried harder to get help, there's so much help out there." No there isn't! I was in the process of starving to death before I found hexbear and mutual aid. I had collapsed in the street from starvation and been diagnosed with multiple nutritional deficiencies, and still this country wouldn't feed me. If it wasn't for the people here I don't think i would still be alive.
I'm sorry, that's awful. It's good that /c/mutualaid was able to help.
Fucking UK, what's the point of stealing the world's wealth if you're just going to let your people starve to death anyway