And if I’m American, isn’t Xhaka Swiss? Or is he just passing as Swiss, as you said above?

I am more American than Albanian, which is exactly the point. I still identify with the eagle. Just like the Swiss players, one of whom, like me, was born in another country.

There’s a first for everything — nobody before you has ever called themselves “Balkan”. You can admit you’re Serbian, be proud of your ethnicity.

I agree with your critique of Israeli policy, including the fact that negotiated peace is not its end game.

Of course both my arguments are free speech tests, because you’ve spent ten replies asking about my opinions of the matter on free speech grounds. So I answered, “if they decide it on free speech grounds...”

I agree that’s the way the decision will likely come out. I also believe that on free speech grounds, that is the way it should come out.

And my thought on making clinics give an abortion spiel is this: it’s not a free speech issue, and even if it was, the interest in speech would be to bar the government from ordering that spiel.

You really want to have this discussion with me, but I’m not interested. Your critique of the Court is correct - they are classifying things that were never considered speech as speech. We agree.

It’s implied by “insane promotion of free-speech rights.” They’ve done nothing to further protect already protected speech, they’ve just improperly broadened the definition of speech.

What I consider speech is not the issue. What the Supremes consider speech isn’t even the issue. That’s your larger point, which is fine. But I didn’t engage with that point at all. I had another issue with your stupid take.

Throw the free speech baby out with the corporate money bathwater is THE stupidest take.

The problem is that you change in mid-course from taking down monuments to taking down all things.

It works because it’s true. They DO hold all the power, but we’re in the process of changing that, and they ARE losing their control of all the power, however slowly.

Agree to disagree, I guess. His strength was going forward, but he was no slouch defending. I’d take him in his over any left fullback in the world at the moment.

You’re using legal concepts like protected speech, hate speech, and the legal definition of obscene. And yet it would be impossible for you to find one case to support your assertion.

I definitely would not include Cafu in the bad defender category, and Roberto Carlos is cutting it close.

Don’t worry. Because the wage is mandated by your state, your nearby competition will all have to raise their prices, too. Customers will be unhappy for a bit, but they will get used to it.

Whether you realize it or not, you are just railing against the concept of insurance because you pay high premiums with high deductibles. I’m not trying to be snarky or anything, but insurance is necessarily not compatible with your beliefs (they are libertarian on this issue).

What else you need:

I don’t think she did. She called the guy universally identified with aliens “the conspiracy guy.” It seems Epic told her aliens will be introduced to the map and she mistook that for Epic having fun with her by suggesting it could be any type of conspiracy.