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[–] [S] 30 points 2 months ago (15 children)

That would still be an addiction, still be serious, and still not be worth mocking.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (12 children)

    If you feel so strongly about it, take this post down and never make fun of her again.

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Mocking someone for having a bad take and mocking them for their disease are not the same

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They're not separate things. One feeds into the other.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    No they're not. She's not a weird centrist lib who thinks genocide is about her because she drinks, and she doesn't drink because her politics are bad. People have bad takes without being alcoholics.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    There are strong indications that she's drunk every time she tweets, and that effects the self-centeredness, lack of ability to see how she looks, lack of inhibition and emotionalism of her tweets, and those are things you're making fun of and inviting us to make fun of. You're not just mocking her bad politics, you're mocking the way she expresses them. If you were purely mocking someone's bad politics, you wouldn't go after contrapoints, you'd post the thousands of articles and opinion pieces in major publications denying the genocide in Gaza.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (7 children)

    Addiction is not a disease. Classifying it as such is counterproductive.

    You can’t get cured of a disease by going to therapy. Addiction is primarily psychological and emotional.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You can just post shit, nobody can stop you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    Addiction as a disease is intimately linked to AA 12-steps culture btw

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    The idea of addiction as disease became widespread because of AA 12-steps. AA came with the allergy “theory”, which eventually evolved into the disease theory.

    It’s not a good model though. It treats addiction as something external the sufferer has no control over.

    The best most modern addiction therapies and treatments are all about strengthening the ability for self-control.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Only in the sense that everything surrounding addiction is. But addiction as disease is just the correct heuristic and is used by everyone from psychiatrists to therapists to laypeople.

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