I want city council to ban tear gas/ pepper spray/chemical weapons in Saint Paul. Surely, we have the votes for it. It's only ever abused. I'd argue there's no justifiable use for it, ever, but even if there were, it's always abused.

Sometimes, you just know you have done something wrong and must determine to do better in the future & then just. Go do better. If you pirated books years ago, just try to grab those titles if you see them on sale now or something. Be normal. Don't demand that authors publicly absolve you. Grow up.

So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon.

The rest of us will live in a society.

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

-stimulants and other drugs were widely used, socially accepted, and available even to awkward rule-following nerds like me; like the nicotine example. (I wouldn’t have been “cool” enough for cocaine if I’d lived in the 80s, just like I wasn’t cool enough for weed (until it was basically legal) now)