Drewbieee

Hell yeah it does, and also, think of this: everyone you know is a criminal, you likely are part of some organization, your money and possessions were likely all taken by police or by junkies once they knew you got locked up. If you don’t have family, what do you do? You get out and probably bounce to a weekly meth motel, where it’s literally like impossible to not get caught up in the life. Your entire community, your social partners, your culture, any source of warmth or kindness, all those things are tied to the “bad” lifestyle. you suddenly get dropped out of the sky at your lowest point, alone and told to go build a life somehow. It’s extremely hard to find yourself in that situation and somehow build a life that you struggled to make when you were at your best and had no record. Now your a felon with nothing and anyone who you trust or like are likely felons/criminals as well.

I lived in Japan for the last couple years and I left Japan during corona and moved home. I was told my visa was terminated and that I would be unable to return for the “foreseeable future.” My ex works for JAL and she has barely flown at all for like the last year. You definitely cannot travel to Japan yet or any time soon, they just re locked down.

Edit: for reference, I still had about 1.5 years on my visa left and in normal times would have been able to return

Classic. Lady comes to do an AMA about her expertise on labeling people anti-semites, but like a coward she avoids any question that isn't a softball, she refuses to acknowledge and discuss some of her controversial and inflammatory claims/ideas, and basically just comes to shill for Israel and muddy the waters with whataboutisms and branding anyone questioning Israel as anti-Jew. How's it feel to be a professor and be so intellectually fragile that you can't even discuss and defend your ideas? You literally just avoid anything stimulating and answered softball bullshit questions with equally bullshit assertions.

A buddy of mine in high school was running down the hallway to his room, tried to jump over an open dresser drawer and hit his nut. For the next hours he’s in insane pain puking and crying and shit but too embarrassed to tell his parents what happened. He finally does, they go to the hospital and turns out his nut got knocked so hard it twisted up and basically died. They chopped off his nut and replaced it with a prosthetic nut which he assured us looked and felt quite real. All through the rest of high school and college we would bet on if his girlfriends would realize it was fake. They never did. He just had a kid a year or so ago.

This is what I tell people every single day. People who aren’t addicts want to believe they are just stronger/better people than addicts and that addicts did it to themselves/should have been stronger and they could never be addicts themselves. Spoiler alert: no addict on earth started out thinking they would become an addict. No one. So when a “better” person and a friend take a line, neither one thinks they’re risking everything. They both say “addiction happens to them, not me”?