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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The vegans would not like my correspondence with Eureka locker.

Do you think bigotry should be illegal, have some kind of formal penalty? I know you're not saying this, but sometimes it seems you wish you could control the thoughts of millions of people.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Isn't this the standard "Free speech doesn't mean you are free from consequences of that speech"? I don't think the government should punish you but if the free market chooses to then I don't see it as an issue.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I agree. Boycott Ameritrade or the Cubs if you want. But there seems to be a discussion about "what to do about Joe Ricketts." There's nothing to been done about Joe Ricketts. Don't patronize his businesses. The end.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Jorr, I’ll see you there. Shall we say first decent day in May?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Isn't that what is ultimately happening though? MLB has to decide if this is worth the potential cost and whether they need to react or not.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I don’t know about Bryan but the SJWs like Bernsie and JDC absolutely want to impose social penalties upon offenders.

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Elections have consequences.

You are reading and posting in a thread in which the ultimate thrust and topic of the thread is a series of e-mails where a man said stuff like:

"All Muslims are my enemy"

"No Muslim is capable of respecting a Jew or a Christian"

in addition to a bunch of other offensive discourse via e-mail. Not sure why you are shocked that the individual who made those statement is being identified as a bigot in this thread.

You'd have a valid complaint if in a thread about favorite ice cream flavors someone started posting about bigots being bigots, however, you're a big boy: you know what this thread is about, you know what Dad Ricketts wrote, you understand what a bigot is.

To be surprised that accusations of being bigoted are being leveled against Dad Ricketts is disingenuous.

*Edited for wrong quoted message.

I think One Post may have missed a joke.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

There is no potential cost Rick. Wrigley will sell out regardless. No one ( well certainly not enough people to matter ) is going to stop watching the Cubs because Joe Ricketts hates Muslims .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

leash doesn't like peas either. You wrote all this shit for nothing

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

+1000

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Nope, I'm just a fucking dunce sometimes, wrong quoted post.

Okay!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Ok, I look forward to MLB coming out and saying "Nothing will be done because no one that matters is going to care about this".

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I'll go a step further. What about unconscious bias? We all have it.

Did anybody actually previously think that Joe Ricketts liked Muslims? If so, none of y'all know any 77+ year old active or retired businessmen living in DuPage or Kendall County (excluding Naperville's more woke areas).

What are you all going to do when Sinclair forms the Cubs TV network? Stop watching?

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Well, of course, fuck the Cubs but...

What are their views?

Everyone assumes the good in the absence of any information. I don't think you should assume the bad, just not assume anything at all.

I think there is some evidence that at least one of his kids didn't privately find his dad's views overly objectionable.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Sadly, people at both extremes of our political spectrum are in the camp of:

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Fuck yea, I do. That would be awesome.

And no it shouldn't be illegal, but I do think it's wrong. Also I think it's often relevant in political discussions, especially with our last two Presidents.

Not liking Obama because he was drone happy carries more weight to me than not liking Obama because he's black.

It's interesting though. I dont think I bring up race or racism a lot. But when it is brought up, Im not shy about saying what I believe.

Maybe it's because I grew up where the majority of people were either bigoted or shrugged their shoulders about bigotry and said things like, "yea, that's just how Jimmy is, but he's a good guy, though"

I think looking the other way or pretending it doesn't matter makes it more likely to continue.

This is the problem with someone like Julie DiCaro. She knows the answer to all her complaints about the Cubs. Stop patronizing them. But she doesn't want to do that. Because it would cost her something, her entertainment, her emotional connection to the team, the joy the Cubs occasionally bring her. But she knows the right thing to do for someone who feels the way she does. She's just too fucking weak to do it. So she complains on the radio and wants someone else to "do something" so she can continue with her pleasure and not feel guilty about it.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Just making this clear, my "what should we do?" thing was meant to imply "there is nothing to do here"

This is ultimately the question.

I have said this before in semi jest but on a very real level, supporting the Cubs is supporting some reprehensible social and political positions. There is certainly a greater nexus between a Cub fan supporting Joe Ricketts by supporting the Cubs than Joe Ricketts paying for public unions with his taxes.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I guess you have to define impose social penalties.

Boycotting and choosing not patronize is very American. Literally lawful penalties would be the opposite of American.

I boycotted the Tribune Company for the last 2/3 of the 2006 season, from the point where they lost 11 of 12 including being swept by San Diego with back-to-back walk-offs, until Dusty Baker was gone. No newspaper, no WGN radio or TV. I watched games if they had a national feed, otherwise I read the recaps on Bleed Cubbie Blue the next day.

But that's because Dusty personally wasted my time by making stupid decisions with that goat abortion of a team.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Is someone in this thread advocating for a punishment for Joe? I think Rick is joking with banning him from Wrigley.

I'm not joking. It's the same punishment that Marge Schott got.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

oh.

I mean, from a selfish standpoint, that wouldnt affect me so I dont care. How did Marge Schott get found out?

I mean it's his personal email. I don't know if you want to start (continue) punishing people for that.