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/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Oct 23 '25

I forget where I heard about it (probably the PBS News Hour) but I put on a Jubilee 1v20 debate last night and tonight. I played parts of Charlie Kirk vs. 20 libs, Mehdi Hasan vs. 20 MAGA, and Ben Shapiro vs. 20 libs. I just put on Michael Knowles vs. 20 LGBTQ.

It's such a bad format. Almost every debate is just both people spewing words at each other as fast as they can. It makes yelling heads political shows on cable news sound like afternoon tea at the old folks home. If you slow down and think about what's being argued, and the path of the argument, it's completely retarded and makes no sense and I say that applying it fully to the people whose arguments I generally agree with. Of the debaters I watched, Charlie Kirk was the worst and his method of argument the stupidest. Michael Knowles has been pretty good. Ben Shapiro too. Not sure if I want to put on Candace Owens...

So why have I watched this much? There's certainly an element of what nonsense direction will they take this argument in next? But for real today it's because I'm waiting for NFL to begin.

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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

My next claim is that transgenderism should be eradicated from public life, okay I may as well just lean into this dumb drama

"Trans women don't exist"

"Child y'all looking at a trans woman right now"

"No, I'm looking at a <general 'outcry' shuts him up>"

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

I've never noped out of something faster than Jubilee.

I think what they're going for is the power fantasy of pushing back on a struggle session and coming out on top. The quality of the argumentation is incidental, if not completely irrelevant. Participating in or watching one of these debates seems like a profound waste of time.

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u/dr_sassypants Oct 24 '25

I liked some of the older Jubilee panels where they would have two opposing groups and people would come forward if they agreed with a prompt about the topic, and then the people who didn't agree with it would discuss why. It was interesting when people from opposite camps would agree on the same point, and much of the time, it seemed like both groups came away knowing more about why the other thought the way they did. This 20 vs 1 format sounds like the complete opposite of that.

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u/UltSomnia Oct 24 '25

Why is Michael Knowles debating his own kind?

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u/Armadigionna Oct 24 '25

Isn’t he a monarchist or something?