Normal is not one size fits all. In my area, amongst people of my social class, during my formative years, it was absolutely normal to say fag or faggot. All the time.

Hear, hear. Socialists shouldn’t alienate these people for their entirely founded fears, either. Not if they want to win, anyways.

How confident are you that there are still vast red rural and suburban areas that believe in traditional values? It seems that they believe in those values only insofar as they don’t inconvenience them at all.

Whether Trump is conservative or not is besides the point. His voters undeniably are. And it seems as though they’re abandoning their conservative bona fides in this culture war.

The problem for the right wingers is this: if they succeed in making outrage comedy verboten, then they will lose one of their most common alibis.

Özil is a third-generation German. I’m sure he still has distant family in Turkey, but it’s likely that all of his parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and first cousins are in Germany.

Emre Can reportedly refused to meet with Erdogan. You can’t expect all people to do the right thing, but it shouldn’t surprise a German that he’s going to get some criticism for this.

You think soldiers are actually flags?

“I happen to like Papa John’s opinion and off a lot...”

Except Trump would have won anyways and many centrists who voted or tend to vote Democratic would possibly be lost for a generation or more. Socialism is a bad word in America. We have to accept that — find ways to change that attitude if you can, but don’t pretend it isn’t so. Unfortunately, denialism (of all types) i…

Hero: The sub was a PR move.

An exhaustive list of guys who made more money by going to City than they would have by staying at their previous club or going to another:

You can argue that her knowledge of his actions makes her complicit, or that it’s evidence of her weak ethics. If she knew and did nothing, you can argue that it impugns her in some way. And you’re probably right.

Any save he made of a shot on goal. Neymar’s shot would have been high.

He’s making an argument for changing the whole Spanish footballing identity. He wants them to go away from tiki taka completely.

I agree, but when your only attacker provides no link up play at all, for a team built on link up play at the top of the box, he’s in for some harsh criticism.

I think Isco was the worst of the lot. He dribbled a hell of a lot, and tried to take his man on a few times, which is something no one else did until Aspas came on. But he was a net negative in link up play, which is what Spanish football is built on.

True, but the manager seemed to design a game plan entirely around Isco, who is technically excellent and somehow the worst possible player for this Spain side on this day.

The strangest part about this whole ordeal is that it makes perfect sense to use phrases like “the most popular Muslim athlete” and “the most beloved athletes across the Muslim world.”

Maybe chauvinist wasn’t the perfect word, but he made me American while saying Xhaka is “passing” as Swiss. This despite our birth situations being identical. Born in a third country to immigrant Albanian parents from Yugoslavia.