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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.