In america a suicide hotline number is more likely to kill you than yourself, Regan was a bad person obviously but it’s a good thing the shitty mental healthcare we have isn’t another branch of the prison industrial complex. Do you have any faith in the government in doing it right? If not perhaps the left should advocate against such things. We should only be advocating for imprisonment politics if he had full control over the nation itself.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes abolishing a bad thing and then re-creating a better version of it later is the best call. Systems resist change with all their strength. See: cops as an example.

[–] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

This is true. To me it seems nearly hopeless with our current climate of dismantling social services to create an entirely new one.