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MLB is fine with ball games in Cuba & training in China, but Georgia is the Humans Rights problem?  huh?

Can they explain for us why they recently held a ball game in brutal totalitarian military dictatorship of Cuba? A place Cuban ball players flee from to freedom, which in some cases includes MLB salaries made possible only by living in a free, democratic society that exists already? They aren't fleeing to a hellhole, which is what MLB is now claiming about Georgia.

Can they explain to us why they hold a training camp in China, home of the Uighur slave-labor laogai and the broken-treaty de-democratization of Hong Kong? You'd think an organization that concerned about voting rights that willing to disrupt its own business and make itself politically unpopular in Georgia in the interest of virtue-signaling on voting might just take an interest in voting and transparency practices over in communist China.

These things to them are fine, but Georgia is an affront to their delicate democratic sensibilities.

The hypocrisies pile up on top of the hypocrisies, and the only people who suffer here are the little black-owned Atlanta businesses who otherwise would get an increased payday from all the knock-on traffic from the All-Star Game. Big businesses, such as MLB, have always been happy to crush the little-guy upstart businesses, some of whom might grow into competitors. That, and the press releases with fawning media coverage, is all they end up doing as a means of feathering their nests. Leftists have always yelled about calling corporations persons, and in this case, they

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  • Anonymous
    2 days ago
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    Indeed.

    Georgia’s problems are with white folks.

    They seem to think everything is to do with race.

    Why do democrats treat minorities as children and expect less from them than anyone else:

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 days ago

    A private organization made a business decision they felt was in the best interest of the organization,, isn't that the exact kind of thing you cons are always supporting,,

    Why is it OK when you agree with the decision but somehow very wrong when you disagree,,

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