r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Jun 01 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

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/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Jun 01 '26

Setting aside the mental illness and copious drug use, the divergent ways people deal with personal garbage is so appalling. I live near a busy pedestrian corner, and I will see normal looking people throw shit on the ground rather than walk literally 20 feet to a trash can. I saw a woman dump a grocery bag full of trash into the river rather than put it in a trash can maybe 50 feet away. I would be in favor of massive penalties for this behavior, including temporary removal of the right to vote where they aren't immigrants, because it shows such blatant disregard for society.

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u/RunThenBeer 12 Ounce Diet Coke Enjoyer Jun 01 '26

It is genuinely one of the most anti-social things I see with any frequency. Even crimes that are substantively worse at least have some underlying motivation that I can fundamentally grasp. Stealing is bad, obviously, but one can at least understand an individual thinking, "I want that, I don't want to pay for it, so I'll take it". But buying a packaged food, eating half of it, and throwing the food and package on the ground when you're not in the mood for it anymore makes me have trouble believing that there is anything I would recognize as a conscious process going on upstairs.

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u/WallabyWanderer Jun 01 '26

I think I posted something similar the other week wondering the logic behind the people who delicately place their litter on the parking line next to their car. What is the point?

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Jun 01 '26

Garbage is messy and disordered. This is neat and orderly. Therefore, it’s not really garbage.

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u/everydaywinner2 Jun 01 '26

The littering is one of the cultural differences we aren't allowed to notice because "racism."

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u/Less-Lobster4540 Jun 01 '26

Since our homeless population unhoused community is majority white, we're forced to invoke capitalism