Punishment as a deterrent hasn’t worked for the entirety of human civilization. Otherwise we would have fewer murders than other countries as we continue to be one of the few places that cling to capital punishment. There will always be monsters. I won’t argue that murder isn’t justified, but it also isn’t a “solution” in the strictest sense. Fear is what you’re talking about and it is a fickle master.
Probably unpopular opinion, but torturing our current problems wont prevent our future problems.
Conservatives think [it’s] simple, they take [it] apart and can’t get it to work again, liberals fix [it], conservatives get jealous, how complicated can [it] be? I’ll show those hot shot know-it-alls, takes [it] apart, can’t get [it] to work again…
Even if we get the 37% or so of truly burdensome people out of intellectual debt, the best we can seemingly hope for is ~45 years before the entire nation forgets all of the hard lessons it learned and insists on relearning them again.
Here’s the progression: unignorable calamity (inspiration, debt) > society bands together (creation, true wealth) > conspicuously wealthy take unfair advantage (consumption, illusion of gains) > unignorable calamity, ad infinitum. Or to simplify: conservatives break things, liberals fix things, and neither learn a lesson.
If I can’t find any ghosts, I guess I’ll have to make my own.
Unless he is literally flayed on live tv within the next couple months, his continued existence is an affront to the entire concept of karma. He’s already so old, and so influential, and so insulated by sycophants, he’s already crossed the finish line. He won. He has lived a life seemingly entirely devoid of regrets. He is potentially the greatest rapist of all time. Of women, of children, of society, of the nation, and of the future itself.
That weird bot that assumed that woman’s identity and was messaging everyone?
To be fair, Mamdani was born in Uganda, so he isn’t eligible for presidency anyhow.
Probably riddled with outlandish exaggerations and flights of fancy such as:
A human being, an adequate father and husband, and a qualified leader. President Trump was famously literate, and regularly formed coherent sentences. His body was completely normal and multiple people were capable of tolerating his naked form without the threat of, or application of, force. He did not need a night light.
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.”
100%
That “Y” is a very nice touch.
Am I missing the article link?
Best case scenario: the less corrupt, less cruel (note: less) democrats wrest power back. At which point all hidden failures will become public and blamed on them. Republicans will claim everything was peachy under their watch and everything went to shit as soon as a woman or a person of color got control.
This belittles sex workers more than it describes Musk. Just because they’re naked doesn’t make their work any less demeaning than rotting behind a desk waiting to have your retirement stolen.
If your brother gets suicided, you may fear those potentially responsible and have strong motivation to carry their water. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mark and Ghislaine continue to provide convenient denials and clarifications. If they didn’t have the spine or moral compass to do the right thing before, than I wouldn’t expect them to do the right thing now.
Musical chairs rules dictates that once the last bit of life in the universe is inevitably blotted out, all that will be left is morally inert, inanimate matter, and therefore evil will not exist for millions of years. It’s winning the battle but losing the war on the grandest scale.
Well, not his parents that’s for sure. Which may have gotten us in to this mess in the first place.