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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.