Adrianna TanFor me, the most pressing issue of these times is how to avoid nihilism, build community, love people. I know it sounds woo woo but I’m frankly out of other ideas.
Shotgun Seamstress@skinnylatte no, you’re right. Ppl think the battle is right vs left but there’s another group of ppl who aren’t just “politically disenfranchised” but just want to burn it all down. I understand where this impulse comes from, but it’s frightening!
Mx Verda@shotgunseamstress @skinnylatte hrm. I suppose it depends on the context or nuance, or it can do, anyway.
I don't know the exact details of what you're referring to, so I might be talking out my ass on this one. Nevertheless *and then I verbal car collision myself*.
No, uh, but yeah.
I feel like e.g. for the NHS, 14 years of tóraí budget-strangling have made these "interconnected" health care [sic] systems not fit for purpose, to use their own damn phrasing. I've worked in it, used it, needed it, been refused care, been delayed care, then had complications from refusals and delays. The starting point was "omg this NHS badge is like my own silver millennium crystal" and the end point was ... possibly mild psychosis? Unsure (because, ofc, I did not get tested or diagnosed) but the result was Vivid Intent To Cause Pointless Destruction and Property "Violence".
But again, even "burn it all down and start from scratch" would mean something very different for UK health "care" compared to other countries', or non-health topics at all.
... I kinda just wanted to rant about how you can do everything (as) right (as possible), then still have your needs ignored and experience catastrophic rage as a result. Which... isn't really contradictory to (from? By? Fuck, prepositions have lost me) what you said.
Aaaaaaaah. Anyway sometimes there is financial help for pet care and especially neutering. https://www.cats.org.uk/media/osln4slu/neutering.pdf