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JD Vance calls for banning viral 'six-seven' meme after his child goes 'absolutely nuts'
(www.rawstory.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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The very short article makes it pretty clear that this a was a joke. When we take these types of headlines at face value we become just as mindless as the maga crowd.
Thanks for being the voice of reason!
There’s so many awful things these people are doing, we don’t need to make stuff up to get mad about.
The problem is that he is appatently comfortable making these "jokes" in the first place.
I mean, if he said it completely seriously, and the article was published saying he had, then he later came out and said "It was just a joke guys! Jeez, so uptight!", I'd agree with you, but it was apparently clear from the outset that it was a joke and the headline is likely intentionally written to sensationalize it. The only problem I see here is that someone at rawstory thought this was newsworthy.
They've been doing this since the beginning of the year.
It starts with jokes...
I'm not that concerned. There's a famous Reagan joke that he did during a sound test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifJ_mQdpZA
This is part of manufacturing consent for certain ideas in the media.
I think this is the least problematic thing he has done to my knowledge
Depends on your opinions about the sanctity of sofas
That's "a" problem to be sure, but perhaps not "the" problem. For example, every president for the past 36 years has pardoned a turkey for thanksgiving. Given the genocide of Native Americans by the US government, and the supposed occasion of Thanksgiving this seems like many smacks in many faces. Or making light of execution, which America is just one of 3 OECD countries (us, japan, and south korea) who even have capital punishment anymore, is in extremely poor taste. So joking about free speech is tone deaf I agree, but not unprecedentedly so, and not necessarily the purview of either party.
Long story short, there are bigger fish to fry, and we can't afford to waste our anger rather than apply it where it belongs.
Of all jokes from this crowd, this one I don't think is the kind that that's actually a hint.
This is some quality reporting - that's more details on the memes' origination than I've ever read before. As far as I knew it was utterly random.
First of all - hilarious that the article explains where it came from and then ends with this quote.
But no, we absolutely did not have an origin story for all of our childhood memes. Every kid knew about the Mew under the truck in Pokémon red/blue, or that Marilyn Manson removed a rib. People still marvel today at the proliferation of that (false) information - how did we all hear it, and where in the world did it come from?
As a joke it probably would've been more funny if it weren't for all the reporting about how they were deporting people for posting JD Vance memes and are now demanding to see everyone's social media accounts at the border.
I agree with you.
Is also think our VP is in poor taste to make jokes about how he’d like to fire off an exception to the 1st amendment. It’s just another example of total disrespect for our constitution and personal arrogance within the executive branch.