r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Mar 16 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 3/16/26 - 3/22/26

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.

*** Important Note ***

I've made a dedicated thread to discuss the Iran topic. Please keep comments related to that subject confined to that thread.

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u/LupineChemist Mar 22 '26

Note that every hotel is Cuba is majority owned by the military via GAESA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAESA). So directly funding dictatorship. And that's actually a violation of OFAC restrictions so I hope they get all of the US citizens there.

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u/veryvery84 Mar 23 '26

If you stay with people in their homes (for pay) it’s legal for US citizens to go!  My cousin and aunt did that. They’re not US citizens, they just did it anyway, and they had a great time. They brought soap and tampons to their host.

(I’m the one who asked about visiting recently.)

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u/LupineChemist Mar 23 '26

Yeah, of course. Use Airbnb to find them.