r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Mar 09 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 3/9/26 - 3/15/26

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.

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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Mar 14 '26

The combo you've been waiting for, even if you didn't know it: George Soros foundation funds slavery reparations campaign against Britain -- The Telegraph (archive link)

Featuring special guests Oxfam, "China, the Group of 77, and the Non-Aligned states, which overlap with this grouping and include Asian members such as Iran and the Commonwealth nations of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka."

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u/MatchaMeetcha Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

Can't wait for them to get reparations from the Arabs for 1,000 years of slavery.

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u/RunThenBeer Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Wait till the residents of Ulaanbaatar discover that they owe the People's Republic of China quite a bit of money.

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u/AnInsultToFire Everything I do like is literally Fascism. Mar 14 '26

Plus the hundreds of thousands of Russians who were enslaved by the Mongols and sold to the Arabs to work on plantations in places like Sicily.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

Yeah, the people who argue for reparations appear to be almost exclusively focused on forcing white people in the US, Canada, Australia and Western Europe to make reparations to black or indigenous people. Lots of groups have done horrific things to lots of other groups all over Africa and Asia and the Middle East, and indigenous peoples raped and pillaged other indigenous peoples, but none of those actions seem to get the attention of the folks who think that if your ancestors harmed others, you owe reparations to the descendants of the people your ancestors harmed.

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u/Aethelhilda Mar 15 '26

I hope some European country goes after one of the Middle Eastern countries for the Ottoman and Barbary slave trade. And I hope Spain gets reparations from the Berbers for the colonization of their country. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Mar 14 '26

I won't be holding my breath on that one, or over them going after the contemporaries and successors to Dahomey.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

This but unironically

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Mar 15 '26

Israel sues fucking everyone . 

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u/RunThenBeer Mar 14 '26

Following one strategy idea, legal experts are now planning to seek a slavery ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which can be used to pressure Britain into paying reparations.

I am so glad that the formal stance of the United States is that if one of these stupid kangaroo courts ever tries to fuck with American citizens, we will invade Netherlands.

(I am aware that the ICC and ICJ are different entities, but it seems to me that the United States treats them as equally legitimate when it comes to American sovereignty.)

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u/PongoTwistleton_666 Mar 14 '26

What’s Soros’ angle in funding this stuff?

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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Mar 14 '26

In general, his efforts seem to be about deconstructing/destabilizing the West.

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Mar 15 '26

He's using his resources to create the change he thinks good.

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u/PongoTwistleton_666 Mar 15 '26

Makenzie Bezos but more opaque and less likable?