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Yes, but for harm reduction only
If you want to have actual progress you gotta work outside of the system
Elaborate on working outside of the system.
Don't beg. Do.
Like what?
What do you want from your government?
Your government won't do it.
Do it your fucking self. I dunno. You want better schools? Start one, improve the ones that exist, whatever. You want safer streets? Start pouring concrete and slashing tires. You want asafe injection site?
After you. Im guessing you don’t actually want any of that.
None of those are exactly my issue, no (I was using standard talking points politicians appeal to people like you by promising, then forget on election night), but if someone got started on one of those projects and I had spare time, I'd pitch in. I do in fact do the shit I believe in.
Goverent does not give you things. It gives you orders. It corrupts your intentions. Its very heart is rot. The actual stuff is done by people. Those people exist, they live on your street, in your building. Maybe you're one of them, if you're jot a completely bullshit professional managerial fuckhead with no skills-and even then you can learn shit (I did) or function as a warm body. The tools are around. Sometimes they're big and hard to diy/steal, sometimes it’s shit you've got laying around.
Like the other said. Meet up with your neighbors and address those issues together as a community
You can draw inspiration from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosfygika_of_Alexandras_avenue#Self-organised_structures
cool can my neighbors make 3M two states over stop polluting my drinking water?
Correct. But harm reduction is still valuable. You still need to vote, you just shouldn't pretend that voting alone is sufficient.
Sure, if you only vote in general elections and only vote for federal positions.
Local and primary elections allow for much more opportunity for change. But only if you participate.
Not usually. Last time I voted in a local election the candidates every position looked like looked like:
Oh and
Sucks for you, i guess. But thats not true of everywhere, and often you can often help encourage better candidates by prosthelytizing your ideals to those around you.
We do not live in vacuums, and treating every issue as something you have to solve completely by yourself is a recipe for failure.
Cripes, they are getting more anti social in their responses. Hey Zorque, if folks don't live in a vacuum, how come cops are allowed to murder me in broad daylight, while my governor can seat in es mansion watching us get bombed on in 4K?
Because youre sitting by yourself whining about it instead of forming an organized resistence?
Nice projection, but what organized resistance have u formd?
I’m a black anarchist, I have people to feed, shelter, arm, & solidify for.
Yes. By yourself. Because when two people collaborate its called a government and one of them needs to be in charge