In Switzerland we have some sort of "direct democracy" (basically people get to vote on a law or a change in the constitution a few times a year) and people still vote for less taxes for the rich.
Their summary was interesting, but they still didn't explain why communism doesn't fail in practice. They only criticized capitalism.
Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the "g" in GNU isn't silent.
So it depends on whether you want to pronounce it "properly" or as it was intended.
The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix!”; it is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like “grew” but with the letter n instead of r.
What would actually help these people would be to consider them as humain beings and provide them housing.