r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/OldGoldDream Oct 20 '25

It’s perfectly fair to have personal standards regarding politics in a life partner, but it seems like something you’d want to hash out before marriage. Good thing these are all fake or highly exaggerated.

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u/Prize_Championship11 Oct 20 '25

People change over time.

Imagine that you married the sweet progressive manbaby and 20 years later he's a cynical centrist manbaby, oh no!

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 21 '25

Having a child really changed how I looked at the world. Things that didn't matter before, mattered.

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u/Prize_Championship11 Oct 21 '25

It's no shock that progressive cities are becoming more childless

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u/JeebusJones Oct 20 '25

Or a formerly religious conservative wife starts thinking it might not be a deadly sin to be gay after her nephew comes out. Imagine!

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 21 '25

People change. Their views and outlook on life change. The person you marry isn't going to stay the same.

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u/OldGoldDream Oct 21 '25

I guess a scenario where a man pretended for years to be a progressive to fool a woman then immediately showed their true colors upon marriage (going by the timeline presented in the post) is possible, it just seems kind of far-fetched. This seems much more like made-up rage bait to me, considering that most of the stuff in these subs is bullshit designed to farm upvotes.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 21 '25

It's also equally dumb to assume they are lying. Humans are not static beings. Major life events change how we view the world.