Hylactor

Are you a glass half full, or a glass half empty kind of person. 'Cause half of your dream is almost certainly going to happen.

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.

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.

Vice President JD Vance jokingly called for instituting a “narrow exception to the First Amendment” Tuesday to prohibit Americans from uttering the numbers “six” and “seven,” referencing the viral meme that has exploded in popularity among children and teens, including Vance’s own five-year-old child.

“Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating ‘six seven’ like 10 times,” Vance wrote in a social media post on X. “And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the first amendment and ban these numbers forever.”

The meme, which has baffled and confused adults for months, traces its roots to the 2025 song “Doot Doot (6 7) by rapper “Skrilla,” which had been used on highlight videos of the professional basketball player LeMelo Ball, whose height is 6’7. Clips of basketball players and young sports fans uttering the phrase “six, seven” while doing exaggerated hand gestures also accelerated the meme’s spread.

The meme’s use in schools has been so prominent among young children and teens that some have begun banning its use, a policy that Vance now appears to agree with, at least in jest.

“Where did this even come from?” Vance continued. “I don't understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.”

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Am I missing the article link?

What's going on in Malta?

The "lesson" will be that the truly wealthy will stay so, and the rest of us will be pushed farther away, the discrepancy between our stations will diverge even further, and the relative wealth of the tippy top will increase just that much more. Don't think for a minute that this bubble, or any bubble for that matter, is not egged on by those insulated from it's poppings consequences.

Yes, I too like to store my thick glass cylinders next to my femoral artery.

Hmmm...

One of its heads seemed to have received a death-blow, but its mortal wound had been healed. In amazement the whole earth followed the beast.

Revelation 13:3

Blackmail

Only half. The other half is for export.

You're more right than you may know.

An actual city wall existed on the street from 1653 to 1699. During the 18th century, the location served as a slave market and securities trading site, and from 1703 onward