New owner... Tom Dundon?

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  1. andalusian

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    Damn, make me pine for the days orange chicken was the finals MVP
     
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    Maybe he's the one who wants to run things, and they just want the own things.
     
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    Orange chicken should be hanging in the rafters. The fact that it isn't is a stain on our blazers.

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    Jody's looking better all the time.
     
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    The situation in the article about AshLe’ Penn frustrates me. Nobody forced her to take that loan. It's on her to do her due diligence and then make the payments and be a responsible adult. She gets no "poor me" sympathy from me.
     
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    yeah, I didn't gin up any sympathy for her, but IMO, her story was a distraction from the main topic

    predatory pay-day loans with an interest rate of 28% sure seem to cross the line to usury. That's around the interest rate of predatory credit cards that have been widely condemned

    Jody Allen has skeletons in her closet; Paul did too; Dundon...RAJ...the Cherngs. The ecology of billionaires is kind of ugly and just because Dundon is the shiny new owner, we probably shouldn't assume he comes from a different eco-system. The reality is the Robber-Baron era never really ended
     
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    But even among billionaires there are degrees of assholery. Compare Paul Allen to Elon.
     
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    Holy $hit. Haven't read the article. But she does from me. Happens to be my old coworker lol.
     
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    Maybe we can settle on the Panda Family just owning the team as the main $ person.
     
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    Who became a Billionaire being a nice guy?

    Hopefully he’s ruthless about winning.
     
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    Maybe Paul McCartney?
     
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    I'd say Mike Illitch did. Who is he? He (along with his wife) was the founder of Little Caesars pizza, and later owner of the Red Wings and Tigers, and secretly paid for Rosa Parks housing (for the rest of her life) after she was robbed and beaten in her apartment in 1994. She passed in 2005.

    People didn't find out he did this until after his passing in 2017.
     
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    But can you really be a nice guy if you sell wet cardboard and call it pizza?

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