Sums up the social media era so far. Everyone is a free speech absolutist right up until they get the power to censor.

> It is useful context for people who aren't American to know how ridiculous Josh Hawley is, and has always been.

Hawley looks like a clown and acts like a clown but he knows how to play the game. The only two things the guy talks about is how much he loves israel and hates china. With those credentials, he might be president one day.

> Even more scary: without any living relatives,

I wonder if that is at all possible. Could there be someone alive today who has no blood kin ( father, mother, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins 1st, 2nd, etc )?

Everybody has relatives. The question is how distant and whether DNA testing will be useful.

Anyone from an orphanage, for starters.

Not necessarily. Many who grows up in an orphanage has living relatives.

For example many who are in an orphanage has living parents, but the social services and the courts have decided to take them into care for their own safety.

23 and Me was working on a leaderboard of the most isolated people in the world before they went bust