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There really are some anonymous shitbags on this website. Just a completely derailed thread full of utter nonsense.

I should have switched the choices for the 3rd item around so that your answer was the name of a Swedish pop band.

Alpha Don't Tread on Me turns into Beta Obey and Comply so fast, it will make your head spin.

It does not necessarily mean that. In this case, however, I think both happen to be true. If not "small", at the very least, it's a shrinking fanbase. The incoming owner is going to have to figure out something to change the trajectory of this team's market share. Sure, winning absolutely MUST be part of that, but unless they can rattle off a bunch of pennants in quick succession, they'll still be struggling to make themselves relevant in a city were the Cubs are as dominant as ever.

Did your interest level go back up?

Having him realize his potential in the playoffs would be a hell of a boost

He was already in the process of being hit by the vehicle. He quite literally didn’t have a chance to move out of the path of the vehicle. He thought she had intent to kill him with her vehicle, which is why he fired at her. Her front windshield apparently had a bullet hole in it, proving she wasn’t already past him. Also, how do you even know it was her intent to flee the scene? Maybe she turns around and comes back for more? It’s not as cut and dried as you are trying to portray it. Regardless, the courts will settle this, but I doubt the guy sees any jail time. The videos tell the story.

It's black and white. I just cited it. Are you somehow arguing he wasn't able to get out of the way of the vehicle when he literally did? I don't care about history or emotions or stories or political affiliation.

I think the latest body cam footage from the agent definitely changes the perspective on things. The agent was an Iraq War veteran that earned the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal. Ironically, last June, the same agent had been dragged by an illegal immigrant in his car for 50 yards and he required 33 stitches as a result. The illegal immigrant that dragged the agent had previously been arrested for domestic assault and convicted of sex crimes against an underage teenager.

A B A A---this was easy.

The fact that Getz apparently had to talk Jerry into a 2/$34M for Murakami by making a revenue generation-based argument suggests two troubling things: (1) Getz doesn't have the autonomy to add a 2/34 to his sub-$90M payroll, and (2) Jerry doesn't seem to currently feel like "making the team better" is worthy of monetary investment on its own I just can't quite imagine that we're going to see them taking on any bad money for anything so frivolous as acquiring talent.

I promise you, you will get not good reactions/discussion on a Chicago based message board lol.

At best, an extreme bandwagon fanbase.

People are being murdered in our streets, targeted by a unaccountable, non-police force, you know the whole reason for the 2ndA in most discussions, and in this case, you can't rush fast enough to justify it. We have toppled governments for less. Like I said previously, exactly. This is exactly what what I expected.

Low attendance does not mean small fanbase.

What should the Illinois General Assembly and Governor offer them?

Lmao youre calling the south loop a despressed dead zone vs their current location, sandwiched between a super highway, rail yard, public housing and seas of parking lots. I cant think of anything more depressing than their current location. Maybe if they moved to O block..

I don't want to have a political debate with you, as like some here I find the polarization nauseating, BUT I do care about rights and the law and procedure. From the DOJ itself: DOJ Bylaws (https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-department-justice-policy-use-force): Deadly force may not be used solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect. Firearms may not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles. Specifically, firearms may not be discharged at a moving vehicle unless: (1) a person in the vehicle is threatening the officer or another person with deadly force by means other than the vehicle; or (2) the vehicle is operated in a manner that threatens to cause death or serious physical injury to the officer or others, and no other objectively reasonable means of defense appear to exist, which includes moving out of the path of the vehicle. The officer very clearly was able to move out of the path of the vehicle in the video, therefore he violated the policy and the DOJ law as it relates to discharging a weapon. It's important to know your rights, and the expectations of law enforcement. Fleeing a crime, that was a misdemeanor at best, does not allow for law enforcement to shoot you. It is black and white.

Targeted? You think the ICE agents somehow made that lady show up, obstruct their law enforcement activity and then proceed to hit one of them with her car. Thats ludicrous.

You mean when the lady went from obstructing law enforcement to trying to run a law enforcement officer over? Last I checked, its been well established that deadly force may be met with deadly force. Pretty easy to avoid being shot due to attempting to hit someone with a car by not attempting to hit someone with a car Certainly wouldn't be considered an assassination. Wouldn't she be a law abiding citizen either, such as was the case with Kirk

For me? I feel like it might be better.

Yes, the idea that Americans aren't being targeted and killed on the streets extrajudiciously these days is exactly the response I expected. I am not surprised that confused you.

Dude, pretty much everybody tip toed around this argument all day. I'm certainly not in charge of anything here, but you can either message SS2k5 or just invite him to 4chan. Bring up a hairbrained trade idea. Or link to some Twitter dude's s%*# trade proposal. We can sure use it.