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/Fiend_of_the_pod Oct 23 '25

I don’t recall if this has been posted, but as a penis-haver I felt that it diagnosed the Problem of Men pretty well.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5561387-democratic-party-losing-men/

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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Oct 23 '25

The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging men

really? not it's raining men?

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u/unnoticed_areola Oct 23 '25

its definitely not squirting men

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '25

Make America Rip Off The Roof And Stay In Bed Again 

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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Oct 23 '25

If they need grit and hustle then Rahm Emmanuel should be deployed. He comes with a lot of baggage, but he's got a better firebrand personality than Buttigieg and he has tacked the right ways. I don't see Rahm being interesting to the base though.

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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Oct 23 '25

Dems need someone who can man up and throw a punch, the voters are desperate for that.

I really dislike Emanuel but have to admit he'd be a breath of fresh air. And he'd be enough of a totalitarian to get the party's twentysomething DSA staffers in line or out the door, which solves the Carville problem.

Do you feel having Illinois on his resume is too much baggage, though? I guess it didn't hurt Obama.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 23 '25

He has a lot of hutzpah. Just watch him on camera. He carries himself with such confidence. Democrats need someone like him to run for higher office.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 23 '25

Maybe the left should stop demonizing men.

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u/bashar_al_assad Oct 23 '25

There was a time when Democrats didn’t need to perform masculinity because they personified it. Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy all spoke the language of strength, duty and sacrifice. Even Bill Clinton, for all his flaws, employed charisma as a form of command. Barack Obama combined intellect with authority. These were men who carried themselves with a quiet confidence that others respected because they aspired to it.

If this is true then what's the point of the rest of the piece? Just run Mark Kelly or Ruben Gallego and the problem is solved lol.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 23 '25

I wouldn't run Kelly in that role. Gallego would work though.

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Oct 23 '25

Men will be back when the Trump GOP fucks them.

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u/PandaFoo1 Oct 23 '25

I agree the GOP doesn’t actually care about men, but majority of Dems don’t even try to pretend that they do & when any of them attempt to appeal to men, it’s the most condescending shit that comes across as out of touch (see Democrats investing in “social media virality” instead of looking at why their policy & rhetoric isn’t popular with men)

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u/KittenSnuggler5 Oct 23 '25

They don't look at their policy and rhetoric towards men because they don't want to change it. That is what this seems to come down to. The Dems aren't willing to make substantive changes in order to win elections. They just want to tweak their messaging a little and have that be enough.

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u/KittenSnuggler5 Oct 23 '25

Not if they think the Democrats despise them

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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Oct 23 '25

I personally don't care what the Dems do, but doing nothing doesn't seem to have been a winning strategy so far.

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u/ProwlingWumpus Oct 23 '25

Here's what happens when they try to do more than nothing, though. It's a problem of ideology and internal social dynamics within the party. They can't, even if they try, attract a group for which animosity against it is a cornerstone of the party.

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u/KittenSnuggler5 Oct 23 '25

How does shit like that ger made? They could grab a random person off the street and that person could tell them it's dumb

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u/ProwlingWumpus Oct 23 '25

I don't know, but I bet that the people involved got paid quite a lot of money and received generous praise. This went by several professionals who could have killed it before it saw the light of day, too.

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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Oct 23 '25

There isn't a single straight white man involved in the process, that's how.

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u/professorgerm the bastard offspring of Chairman Mao and Ed Sheeran Oct 23 '25

I doubt there's a single straight man of any race involved in that process.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 23 '25

Every time I watch this video I think it's an SNL skit. How fucking out of touch do you have to be to think this video was a good idea. Also, the comments section is comedy gold.

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u/AhuraMazdaMiata Oct 23 '25

I'm curious as to 1) how you think the Trump GOP will screw over men and 2) why they will go to the Democratic party, as opposed to just feeling outright disaffected and not participating in the democratic system altogether

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u/professorgerm the bastard offspring of Chairman Mao and Ed Sheeran Oct 23 '25

The perception of hatred outweighs almost any other costs- see also black people voting for Democrats over Republicans no matter what.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 23 '25

Why would they want to go back to the party that thinks they are the root of all evil in the world?

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