Journalism award? First place?

Halfway into my twenty-eighth year myself, and though I feel muchly similar pain, I do it without such accolades and potential. I get tired of lying to myself that I'll be okay, maybe, some day, eventually.

I don't want to Be Someone, I just want to know who I am.

I'm sure you guys are taking this into account, but...

I'll just leave this here.

I love my country too much to be a [patriot]. - Albert Camus

I am very much not trying to advocate banning a historical symbol, especially since I'm one of those people who go out of their way to read banned books, so such a consideration would be hypocrisy.

While I'm not a fan of the flag flying over a government building, and a big fan of the talking being done about whether it belongs there, I agree that Ms Newsome was in the wrong when she took it down.

I'm also a big advocate of freedom of speech, regardless whether I agree with the speech or the statement being made. If the end result of this mess is to put the flag back on the pole, then I won't advocate increased hostilities. I'll grumble about it, but I won't advocate -- I don't advocate -- violence.

violent: using or involving the use of physical force to cause harm or damage to someone or something

via Merriam-Webster Online

Petty violence perhaps, but yes, defacing property is an act of violence.

My argument is "defacing property is an act of violence."

"Defacing" by definition is alteration without permission, whether by act of adding of removing some feature.

That's why I think codes like this are a good idea: it succinctly summarizes a persons complete orientation, which has a significant chance of being a convoluted mess (we are, after all, only human) and one word (like asexual, pansexual, bi, straight, etc) can't and shouldn't be expected to cover the depth and richness of possibilities.

I think the character strings are cute, personally, especially when they're primarily lowercase.

No, if it were satire, it would have a satire tag on it.

Personally, I'm not happy with how the entry came out, but I'm a little short on material right now, so I've been digging through my idea archive and polishing.