• CileTheSane
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    3 hours ago

    If it has a limit, it’s not free

    “Free bread sticks”

    “I’ll take 100”

    “Um… No. You can’t have that many.”

    “iF tHeRe’S a LiMiT iT’s NoT fReE!”

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      3 hours ago

      Don’t be pedantic. A limit would be “free breadsticks only if you decide to pray to our god in front of us.”

      If you say unlimited and then put a limit on it, that is illegal, as Verizon and AT&T found out in court

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        2 hours ago

        If you say unlimited and then put a limit on it

        When did the American Constitution promise “Unlimited Speech”?

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          2 hours ago

          It doesn’t. It says free, meaning unencumbered. The breadstick analogy was for unlimited not free so it was disingenuous and I was countering it.

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            4 minutes ago

            The breadstick analogy was for unlimited not free

            It was both. They were advertised as free, they are free, but there are limits despite them being free

            Nothing free is unlimited.

            Alternatively Americans have no freedoms at all because they all have limits.

            Freedom of Travel? You can’t walk through a military base.

            Freedom of Religion? No one is going to recognize your Jedi holy day. (Not to mention the government not recognizing the religious right to an abortion from Jews or TST.)

            Freedom of commerce? You’re not allowed to purchase heroin or import things from Cuba.