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Elaborate on working outside of the system.
Don't beg. Do.
Like what?
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?
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, 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.
Find a local food bank, see if they need help.
Find a local homeless shelter, see if they need help.
Find a local park, see if they need help.
Start a community kitchen.
Start a community trans center.
Start a clothing donation collection.
etc.
Its truly amazing to me the extent to which most people are enfeebled by their learned helplessness.
You can in fact, just do stuff.
Now, its probably a good idea to think that particular stuff or thing through a bit, before hand...
But everybody is seemingly just waiting for permission. You're the one that gives you permission, nobody else.
We don't have an individualistic culture, we have a cowardly culture that pantomimes socially accepted forms of uniqueness.