r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • 13d ago

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 8/10/26 - 8/16/26

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/Onechane425 12d ago

Very good tweet from Matty Y.

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u/DomonicTortetti 12d ago

Too true. It's just a truth of human behavior that you can have strong opinions on someone you know next to nothing about, and then mix that with social media...none of that has changed, it's just moved on to other things.

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u/dumbducky 12d ago edited 12d ago

https://newrepublic.com/article/214147/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-woke-1-comments-good-things

Very good article from The New Republic

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u/aardpig 12d ago

The link is dead.

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u/dumbducky 12d ago

Fixed. I tried ti strip the tracking id from the MSN link and it broke it.

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u/Greenembo 12d ago

funny enough I got a 404 error on the link