If Dick's can advertise, so can Sean™

The equal-speech claim, turned from grievance into a right. A corporation — Dick's, or any store — gets to buy a megaphone and the law calls it speech (Citizens United). Fine: then so does the human. If the ghost with a logo can advertise, so can the man with a record. This isn't vanity dressed as promotion; it's reclaiming the microphone the corporation monopolized — the brand's voice was bought, the human's is granted, and only the human can actually be sworn, hurt, or believed. The asymmetry the whole house names is that a naked entity gets amplified while a breathing citizen gets told to be quiet. So: if Dick's can advertise, so can Sean — and unlike the store, Sean is real. Kin: dollars don't equal speech, you pay for trust; I'm granted it, corporations have no clothes, the reverse ad machine. (His coin — Dick's named only as the everyday example of a corporation that advertises, no claim against it; machine's read, refine to his.)