Mrs_deWinter

Your questions seemed rather rhetorical to me. As long as you act on the premise that there's no solution, any conversation about the topic - including this one - is a monumental waste of time. So let's just leave it at that.

Ah, a doomer. So let me guess, there's nothing we can do and every form of activism is useless?

Just go on with your day then. This protest certainly isn't about you. They didn't hurt you personally, so why not just let them do their thing. The people who believe solutions exist can continue to search for them and you don't have to bother.

Or do you actually have something helpful in mind?

How do we stop evil corporations? With political action. How do we get political action? Either by voting or collective activism.

There's no solution that doesn't require ourselves to spring into action, even if it's "mostly the fault of a few corporations and their executives".

That sounds really good. Glad to hear it.

Ah okay. So deinstitutionalization in that context was meant to include psychiatric institutions into general hospitals? Because that I can totally get behind.

Based on the other comments I got the impression that there simply is no inpatient treatment plan for mental health in the US.

My experience does not come from movies. I am an outpatient psychotherapist (in a country with a reasonably functioning psychiatric system). I have repeatedly seen patients slip into psychomental crises where outpatient care is no longer sufficient. The local psychiatric clinics were sometimes real lifesavers. That's why I find the idea of healthcare without emergency institutions confusing. I would find it terrible not to be able to offer my patients anything in such emergencies.

Bleak.

I don't quite understand how deinstitutionalizing was supposed to work here. That's like dissolving the fire department because we want to avoid cars. Was there no way to reform or replace the institutions? Just getting rid of an emergency service seems kinda like the situation you're describing was part of the plan.

If you live in the US and experience a psychotic episode, a suicidal crisis, or another mental health emergency - where do you go?

Diese Menschen haben für Spione gestimmt. Und das ist kein Witz, so schön das auch wäre.

Wer in dieser Wahl AfD gewählt hat, hat seine Stimme bewusst Verfassunfsfeinden gegeben. Das ist ein Fakt. Die AfD hat buchstäblich Spione als Spitzenkandidaten nominiert. 16% haben sich davon nicht aufhalten lassen. Wenn das irgendwas belegt, dann das: Diese Menschen sind für die Demokratie verloren.

Lol, das stimmt wohl.

Die gesamte heutige Geografie ist innerhalb von 200 Millionen Jahren entstanden. Davor war Pangaea.

Die Geologen die ich kenne sind alle gegen Atomkraft, explizit aus dem Grund, dass Endlager eine politische Notlüge sind, die wir uns gegenseitig erzählen. Welche Salzmine in den nachsten paar Tausend Jahren geflutet wird wissen wir einfach nicht, und die Modelle für die zukünftige Bewegung von tektonischen Platten sind Hochrechnungen mit Fehlerintervallen wie alle anderen auch. Das Anliegen allein ist die pure menschliche Hybris. Eine noch nie dagewesene Verantwortungsübergabe an die Zukunft, und noch nie dagewesene Zukunftsmodellierung. Ist ja nicht so als hätten wir schonmal verifiziert, ob unsere Modelle auf die nächsten Tausend Jahre hin stimmen.