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We’re all okay with punching down on people with substance abuse issues and talking shit about incarcerated people now?
If you had written your title “my coworker applied to join the military because they raised the enlistment age and he wants to ‘fight Iran’” that woulda been fine.
Instead, you chose to include a bunch of stuff from his personal life and also call him an ex-con all in an attempt to make people see this person as more than just a dipshit, but subhuman, by virtue of his substance abuse issues.
Honestly I’m fucking disappointed in all of the commenters who probably talk a lot shit about class consciousness but can’t be bothered to call your ass out for using the tools and language of the state/oppressors to… make you look cool…? To a bunch of strangers on the internet?
Come on y’all we’re better than this.
Come on, a DUI is a totally different deal than a "substance abuse issue." This guy didn't get put away for drug possession, he did for getting wasted and driving a car. And prison time usually means multiple offenses or that someone was injured/killed. Combined with the fact that he's choosing to enlist now, for the joy of killing Iranians and defending Israel, and I really doubt he's secretly a good guy that OP is slandering for no reason.
yeah i have no sympathy for a multiple dui guy. it's hard to get convicted of anything as a driver as it is and I have too many dead friends because of drunk drivers.
addiction isn't an excuse for getting behind the wheel repeatedly
If that’s really what the majority of hexbears and leftists as a whole believe then there truly is no hope for this world. If yall can’t be bothered to perform even the barest minimum of material analysis for an alcoholic because it serves your ends, in what other ways can I expect yall to fall supremely short?
I say this as someone who has been incarcerated multiple times, and has now been sober for nearly twenty years and as someone whose partner has been incarcerated multiple times — for DWIs — and who has also been sober for nearly twenty years. Both of us extremely proletariat.
I say this as a person who has given literally decades of their life working and organizing with young people, the “underserved”, the “hard cases”, the addicted — many went on to be murderers,removeds, while many are supremely beautiful people living meaningful “productive” lives under capitalism. Proletariat, all of them.
I say this as someone who has been to too many funerals to count. I’ve lost so many friends and family to one addiction or another — I went to probably more than ten funerals before finishing high school. I suppose they deserved it, then? Proletariat, every one.
Have you ever seen a dead body? You ever watched the life leave the body of someone you love as they overdose? You ever given cpr to someone you love while crying your eyes out screaming for them to wake up? You ever had to choose between calling 911 and letting your friend die because you’ve got so much shit on you you’ll go to prison — or worse: get dopesick and detox in county — if the cops come? Have you ever watched someone kill themselves? You ever seen your brother drunk and happy one moment and literally a pile of brains and blood splatter on the wall the next? You ever picked your brothers skull fragments out of drywall? Have you seen someone so down bad that they’ve shot Canadian mist into open sores on their fucking nutsack, or filtered dope through used cigarette butts picked off the street? I suppose each of us deserved it too.
Until you’ve lived my fucking life or the life of any of us criminals shut the fuck up, exercise some compassion, and read a goddam book.
Def a lot of unnecessary punching down in this title. "Trashy tattoos" ...hope OP means some chud adjacent shit, not body art they don't vibe with.
the hegseth comparison leans me toward chud shit, but other parts of the framing make me doubt.