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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass's Pro-Communist History
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:38:05 -0500
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On 1/16/2025 9:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2025 at 3:30:43 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/16/2025 5:33 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>   On 2025-01-16 4:41 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>>>   On 1/16/2025 2:53 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>   It certainly would have been nice to have heard about all this from
>>>>>   the media
>>>>>   during the mayoral campaign. If we had anything resembling a functioning
>>>>>   media, we would have. But no, they were much more concerned that Bass's
>>>>>   opponent, Rick Caruso, was white and rich.
>>>>>
>>>>>   https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1878367072138452992/pu/vid/
>>>>>   avc1/720x1280/_oLkAxJvVM4FxImw.mp4?tag=12
>>>>
>>>>   That sinister video, if swallowed, should perhaps be chased with
>>>>   something like this Atlantic article:
>>>>
>>>>       "In 1973, Bass, [who in 2020 became] a potential Biden VP pick,
>>>>   traveled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. “I didn’t have any
>>>>   illusions that the people in Cuba had the same freedoms I did,” she said.
>>>>
>>>>   (The article is partially paywalled, so I'm just guessing...)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>   And yet she continued working with the Venceremos Brigade for many
>>>   years. Clearly, she wasn't too miffed by the inequity of it all. In
>>>   fact, she was probably looking forward to the day when Californians were
>>>   just as unfree as her Cuban allies.
>>
>> Times change.  E.g., you *do* remember that Castro was first a "hero"...
> 
> To whom?

The U.S. press as a whole, iirc.