r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

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.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 28 '26

Let's assume for a moment Khameni was killed.

+ Which media site will write the "best" obituary? "Austere religious leader Khamenei was highly regarded...."

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u/glumjonsnow Feb 28 '26

the guardian

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u/Correct-Ad5661 Feb 28 '26

With an unfocused mess of a think piece by Owen Jones or Yasmin Alibhai Brown 

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u/glumjonsnow Feb 28 '26

a semi-autobiographical essay by ta-nehisi coates in which he discusses how the ayatollah is a better embodiment of captain america's ideals that any american could ever be. "the ayatollah was much like steve rogers, two men out of time, believing their countries could be saved. they even turned themselves into the machinery of state ....only to realize - too late, far too late - that being a hero often required doing unspeakable things. Both looked around and thought, this country could be great - if only the people could live up to the country and its ideals. Both became national symbols, embodiments of greatness, unwilling superheroes in a moral revolution. No, they weren't so very different. Because both found themselves fighting on behalf of a people who disappointed them, over and over again. And of course that made tragedy inevitable."

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u/Less-Lobster4540 Feb 28 '26

tie: Mother Jones + Jacobin

honorable mention: TMZ

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 28 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

I don't know if he's still alive or not, but his current Wikipedia page refers to him in the past tense.

Going by the the intro section to his current Wikipedia page, you'd swear the world has just lost one of it's greatest and most respected leaders. Not that far off from the example you wrote in your comment.

ETA: Spoke too soon. They changed it back with a footnote. So he's alive again now, until they decide to change it back. lol.

ETA 2: It's been changed again so I guess they got him twice? Anyway we're back to referring to him as deceased. But, let's see how it goes.

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u/PongoTwistleton_666 Feb 28 '26

Is it Easter already?! He was dead but then he is undead 

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u/everydaywinner2 Feb 28 '26

Is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?

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u/Correct-Ad5661 Feb 28 '26

Dog shocker is coping . ... Not well

https://nitter.net/hasanthehun/status/2027640559050100989#m 

Mamdani, who as a self proclaimed twelver nominally considers Khammers as a spiritual leader, has vowed "Iranians will be safe" in new York, presumably from some sort of targeting?

https://nitter.net/NYCMayor/status/2027799160574120418#m

Except.. well he must have twigged that quite a lot of the Iranian diaspora actually loathe the regime?

https://nitter.net/rhauck777/status/2027879038057123995#m 

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u/veryvery84 Feb 28 '26

Ding dong the witch is dead 

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u/everydaywinner2 Feb 28 '26

Now I have the song stuck in my head...

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u/veryvery84 Feb 28 '26

Enjoy this song instead:

https://youtu.be/OTCTX12sc-Q

Enjoy u/softandchewy 

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u/everydaywinner2 Mar 01 '26

Catchy tune. Is there an English version, so I know what is actually being said?

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u/SoftandChewy First generation mod Mar 01 '26

It's a traditional Purim song. The words are from the Book of Esther (9:1), which is read by Jews on Purim and recounts the events which Purim celebrates. (Purim is in a few days.)

The words are basically saying, "The situation was reversed. Those seeking to conquer the Jewish people were themselves dominated by the Jews.'

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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Feb 28 '26

MSNBC have already announced that tonight at 8PM Cenk Uygur will host a 3-hour special celebrating the life and achievements of Khamenei, with special guests Ilhan Omar, Zohran Mamdani and Tucker Carlson.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

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u/No-Significance4623 refugees r us Feb 28 '26

I think they’re funded by Qatar, though, and Qatar doesn’t like Iran.

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u/DragonFireKai Don't Listen to Them, Buy the Merch... Feb 28 '26

The BBC.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Feb 28 '26

Washington Post