Rashav3rak [he/him, any]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • To me, Biden seemed certain to lose, while with Kamala it could go either way. In no way is she a worse candidate than Biden. I think we should all be deeply invested in Kamala winning the election. Not because I want to see Trump lose, though I do. Not because I want to see Kamala win, which I don’t really. What I want, what I think we all want, is to see Hillary Clinton looking on as another woman becomes the first woman president. Not just that, I want to see Kamala win easily, just to make it clear to Hillary that she, personally, was the problem in 2016. No one thinks Kamala is an impressive candidate, so if her mediocre ass beats Trump with a comfortable margin, it’ll more or less settle the argument as to who was responsible for Trump’s victory.

    To be clear, I haven’t lost sight of the fact that a Harris presidency would basically just be the Biden presidency with more awkward laughter. We’re not going to get a good president this time around, or maybe ever. I’m aware that I’m doing something similar to the republican rank-and-file who know their candidates won’t do anything to help them, but will at least make the people they don’t like suffer. We should all be protesting, agitating, and organizing for something better, but with the understanding that organizing is almost certainly not getting us a better candidate this cycle, let’s try and find joy where we can. In this case, in schadenfreude.







  • I got to do this once. I look like the type a prosecutor would probably want on a jury and I wasn’t individually asked any questions before being chosen. The case was a non-violent drug offense and it was a wild experience for reasons I won’t get into. Once we got in the jury room it pretty much went like:

    “Not guilty.”

    “Why not guilty? It’s a pretty clear cut case.”

    “I don’t believe the cops.”

    “Why don’t you believe the cops?”

    “I didn’t find their testimony credible. It didn’t convince me beyond a reasonable doubt.”

    “What about the body cam footage? Do you believe that?”

    “I didn’t find it convincing.”

    “The whole thing is on camera, do you think they faked it all?”

    “I suppose that’s a possibility. I just haven’t seen enough evidence to convict.”

    “What more evidence could you need?”

    “More than this. I’m not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt.”

    And around and around we went like that. I was the lone holdout. I have to say, the other jurors were pretty cool about it. Eventually we had to tell the judge we couldn’t reach a verdict on any of the charges and it was declared a mistrial. Totally worth it.


  • I want to work at the government Office of Whaddya-Need? where people come because they need help training their dog, or they need help moving across the country, or they need a leaking roof patched up, or they need someone to pick their kid up from soccer practice on Friday evenings, or they want to become a librarian and need career guidance, or they have limited mobility and just want someone to take them over to the lake and sit and chat. I want to be the person who helps to figure out how to get them the thing they need. For free of course, because it’s a communist utopia.










  • I said something about this the other day, and pretty much everything I’m about to say is off the top of my head and not well thought out, but the fact is there are a million places on the internet to be horny. If I want to go put my filthy mind on display, and ogle the delightfully filthy minds of others, it’s a click away. But a place like this, one that’s extremely left-wing and aggressively protective of trans/queer members (at least that’s what it looks like to me from my years of casual browsing) is not as easy to come by. I admit, I find myself wishing this place were a little bit hornier too sometimes. But then I think about how many people have very good reasons to be uncomfortable with that (not that anyone needs whatever I deem a “good” reason), and I think about how easy it can be for my perceived charming, flirty comments to be someone else’s perceived triggering aggression, and I just think… why fuck up a good thing? Especially when, as someone else pointed out, people can and do talk about sex here. From what I’ve seen, there seem to be a few unwritten, unofficial ground-rules that most people are following:

    • Minimal or no discussion of the “types” of people we’re horny for.

    • Minimal or no directing of horniness towards other users of the site.

    • Keeping discussion of sex focused more on oneself. What I like, what I do, not getting into other people’s business.

    • Not getting too graphic or explicit with the sex talk, avoiding gory details.

    Again, that’s just the way I’ve experienced the site as a casual user, I’m sure other people would have different opinions. It’s hard enough to keep a place like this running smoothly without introducing overt horniness into the mix, and I’m glad that people here manage to keep things mostly respectful without the need for a blanket ban on sexual stuff.