are we dead? or is this ohio?

Now, though, Los Angeles has a prison skyscraper downtown, and the carceral state would love nothing more than to take you off the street and force you into years of prison labor.

I feel like tags of this nature kind of miss the broader social/cultural context(s) that this post was made in

I am speaking here to the taken for granted AA/NA framing of addiction, where addiction is a disease that can only be cured through complete abstinence. most people, including addicts, only ever see one singular narrative of recovery ("you sober up completely, and then you're either sober forever or you relapse. a relapse is always a dangerous return to square one"). this narrative is an incredibly limited one, and in fact increases the chance of relapses becoming dangerous, because it encourages all or nothing thinking with respect to substance use ("I've failed sobriety now, so I might as well keep going", "it's shameful that I've had a drink after years of sobriety, I should do anything I can do to cover it up", etc). not to mention the dangers of forced sobriety with respect to withdrawal (which can be deadly)

what I'm talking about here is a harm reduction approach to recovery, heavily informed by my involvement with the SMART program. this takes the emphasis away from 'number of days sober' and towards hitting self-defined goals and milestones within recovery. rather than seeing the substance itself as the problem, it focuses on finding ways to no longer solely rely on substance use to cope with whatever underlying problems might exist for an addict (e.g. trauma). someone might therefore choose to stop drinking whenever they have a flashback (for example), or to only drink when they're around friends

*reluctant sigh*

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The class war is staggeringly rigged against the working class. The majority of households are living under extreme economic trauma.

Frozen II: Bye.

Wreck-It Ralph: After years of abuse and neglect I've made a friend who admires and respects me.

Ralph Breaks The Internet: Bye.

Lilo and Stitch: After years of struggle and trauma I've made friends who admire and respect me and I can stay united with my sister whom I love.

Lilo and Stitch (2025): Bye.

Please listen to cool people who did cool stuff. Libertarians are the assholes you're talking about, the ones who think everyone for themselves can or will ever work, instead anarchists just believe in no hierarchies. Power with instead of power over. We actually very much believe in caring for each other, and places where anarchism actually happens shit gets done. After hurricane Helene it was anarchists not the democratic government who got planes up in the mountains WITHIN 24 HOURS to take things to people and get messed up people out. We're the ones who go in and get things going. Despite whatever happens we are the ones who don't give up, relentless lil fuckers. And we're doing anarchism more places and ways than you think.