#the ‘problem’ faced by the narrative isnt li’s addiction

[obstinaterixatrix]

oh yeah, there’s this other bl I’ve been keeping an eye on that’s almost done being tl’d, I might put it in the rec tag but I’m still waiting to see how it plays out because like… this is the most low key and to some extent respectful/optimistic depiction of gambling addiction I’ve seen in a story? ever? it’s quite fascinating, the standard narrative is for the character without addiction to be very involved with discussing and being in conflict and supporting etc. like even when the conclusion is ‘the character with addiction needs to find their own way through recovery’ there’s still a huge emphasis on the other character’s role up to that conclusion. it’s like… you know how people talk about Rat Heaven as in the experiment examining addictive behaviors and conditioning and environmental needs and enrichment. that’s essentially the way this narrative goes. li starts off as his life’s been derailed by a series of tragedies which led to and exacerbated gambling which led to conflict and dissolution of his support system which exacerbated everything etc, and the mc just kind of lets li crash at his place and after a while of having stable shelter and food and an environment that’s… receptive to him would probably be the best descriptor, li just starts adjusting to the stable environment and independently pursues recovery. I feel like having the outside perspective actually enhances it too, the writer never writes the li’s thoughts, only what li says out loud to mc. like there’s half a chapter left so there’s still time for things to end up :/ but yeah actually I really like this approach to a romantic narrative that is tied to a serious topic. oh actually I should specify the respect/optimism is after a while into it though and more in the metanarrative sense, there’s still a lot of fear/stigma/reacting to how li is in the present

edit from the future: the second half of the last chapter sucks

[eekispyykes]

IF NOT INVADED BY CENTRAL AMERICAN EMIGRANTS, MOST DEFINITELY BY SCOTSMEN!

By Michael Bench

The borderwall is a manifestation of Donald Trump's stupidity and his string pullers' frayed ends on purpose. White House mandates have long used the Presidency as the global pulpit of foreign policy. The military has been the strong arm hiding the hammer behind a “peaceful diplomacy”. Americanism is paraded on their airwaves and  served in bullets, mortars and air raids in Vietnam, Iraq, Yemen... The 'American way” served itself to fight against communism as American white privilege chose to define it. When we fight enemies ideologically, the enemy we make of them on empty haver  becomes noise pollution. Wars on empty ideology conflict drain the American way of its kudo's; those still remaining. Other countries should feel appropriate to  hand president trump citations abroad for disturbing the peace.

To understand the borderwall blunder is to recognize the ideological colonialist Usgov has continued to be. The White House sells American values from one face and by domestic strategy now draws the shades over the window. Immigration is our domestic problems on our own continent. Regard the entire Americas as a continent politically.  If there is a path to the northlands, you may as well see the reality human migration isn't any less natural than the birds at our feeders. Now lets put another layer on this. Lets say those 'birds' migrating northward are like hockey fans feeling disheveled about unsafe social systems, limited food at cost and worst still.. no ice rinks. Blimey! These northset birds in ponchos and NHL attire arrive at what should never be a wall. A wall becomes a monument to champion against. Longing eyes sport the attire of a year's Stanley Cup champions never to be.. Attributes of desperation are unifying; a nation of their own.. a proverbial kilt .. Mob mentality will unite people at the wall, desperation will organize them, innovation will fortify their strategy. Allegedly if you give enough monkeys typewriters they'll arrive at silly book like a christian bible. We aren't talking about monkeys. The wall will solidify a change of mind; a sporran full of sunshine. And We are confronted by a border strained by an influx of the Americas' own Scotsmen!!!

Central American mafias will have a ready clan of Scottish drug mules able to evade the police in numbers. They're at the wall and growing in numbers and identity. The Scotsmen start identifying and celebrating their status.. And.. like hockey fans that feel like winners , soon things start on fire;border police patrols cars , people are up on light posts, garbage cans are tossed around like beachballs A  party of validity. The Central America drug gangs know our game better than Trump practices it. Indulgence is the spice of life. They'll feed the party's fire with six pack of RPGs to create a simple hole in the wall. Or Holes.. The Scotsmen will migrate. Eventually Americans will realize the expense of the wall has really been a target range for those who Scotsmen would defy it.

The immigrants choose flight toward a better life.  On the otherside of that wall is the land of milk and honey; so they've been told; gloated, lied to. Milk and honey poisoned with glyphosate, and squeeezed from the teets of cows abused/neglected by Utah ranchers. Inside the wall is an abatoir against humanity. All is not as it seems. The dream in America is grounded in turbulent administration clashes; a heroin addict's euphoric wave and crash. The USgov is guilty of pulling down the window shades on it's own people. In fact .. The American people are not Congress's people no matter the vote process. Americanism is a pair of parties indoctrinating one of two narratives neither very interested in solutions;historically; just incumbency. United States isnt now a human system; its an indoctrination to the service of money.  

The global propaganda machine at the White House's microphone has brought on the Scotsmen. A woodsmen that cooks BBQ openly brings wolves. The mad scientists' laboratory on a hilltop blasting radiation and lights into the night sky will bring people peaking in the windows.. (That lab is my dream, )  Curiosity attracts attention. Desperation insures it. The White House parades the American way. If the American way sounds better than than shithole country the Brasilians, Venezuelans, Colombians, Or . The Scotsmen dwell,  temptation is our widespread global outreach fault; Our United Nations microphone fault..  to beg their arrival at our border. We've asked them to be interested. Its our loud foreign policy at fault. We don't give the Scotsmen enough credit for demanding better of their life. Our fixup job on  Iraq leaves doubt Americanism can thrive elsewhere. A wall would naturally be a Trump platform. Conservatives and republicans like trump made walls a business. They put up walls to avoid seeing the world despite always having an opinion about everything in it. Walls are a defensive coping mechanism, not a solution.

And soon the Scotsmen will feel deceived on arrival. Another shithole country!? No! They'll be confused. The origin of United States Shithole propaganda has multiple sphincters. New York City, Capital Hill and Texas; Sometimes Utah and Las Vegas as well.  Aye, Its a bit Clarty about this Bahoochieville!! America's bullshit factory will curl their kilts. Its not necessarily better here. All the more reason our government must be willing to actually look at and insure the reasons Scottish emigration ends. It's a scary proposition Capitol Hill would seek to be effective at anything. Solving problems isn't something they're accustomed. Democrat and republican donors domesticate their candidates to be handsoff regulators.   They resent such labor skills normalized for their political careers. Neither doomsdayer politician or religious zealot lasts long in good times. America's issue is it accepts the concept of utopianism too willingly.

Our concept of America thinks good systems need no attention; WRONG. If it noot berken, ain't no ned to fix it..  WRONG. Good systems need energy. Something will always be wrong.. It's our role .. as Americans, to not overdramatize small problems into toppling juggernauts of our structure. We must recognize the severity of other problems as the juggernauts that they are.. The climate issue is exactly that level of problem. Our small problems are given more attention.. The American way and American government has an incompetent process of prioritizing problems by severity. In lack of single payer healthcare.. I attest our government officials are a symptom of the mental disease taken by our ages of  social neglect. The newly arrived Scotsmen might see it. They will see it. Its America's real vulnerability .. behind the wall. We're not capable of being a nation without our own self affirmations. The appointment of trump, if representative.. concludes either the Constitution and law is empty ideology or we lie to each other to spin wheels in a nowhere direction. Again, perhaps a utopian delusion to be inert. Without being sustained by our own shithole country mechanisms, we can't survive not bullshitting each other.  I guess we might be better-off  Scotsmen as well.

The matter of unauthorized Immigration should be a NAFTA level coalition event. Canada was left out of the process of paying for the wall. Moreso.. the NAFTA rebargain ought have prioritized it's outreach to Central and South America. Immigrants are fleeing to Canada too.  A scope on the world through an economic lens is not a vision capable to see problems and solve problems without a humanistic (management theory) lens to assist people be in a social system. An economic system is not designed to be a social system nor should capitalism ever mistake itself for a social system. The American political systems 'fight against communism” has attempted to rally an us vs them mentality as if our western economic caste system is a viable excuse for social utility. It's not. In order for the unreasonable immigration to stop , we must stop its causes and United States government has now a necessary reality to shut the fuck up about “its own importance” in the world.  

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