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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 23:51:52 -0500
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On 1/16/2025 11:38 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-01-16 10:40 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 1/16/2025 9:30 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-16 6:30 PM, moviePig 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"...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> By comparison to his predecessor, Batista, he was no doubt perceived 
>>> as an improvement, at least for a little while. I'll bet his promise 
>>> to have free and fair elections within a year was popular too when he 
>>> said it - in 1959. But it didn't take long before he started shooting 
>>> people who opposed his program and those elections didn't come along 
>>> in one year. Or two. Or three. Or even 50. Yet Karen Bass apparently 
>>> thought there was still much to learn from him in the late 60s and 
>>> every other time she went back....
>>
>> What does she think 50 years later?  Or isn't that relevant?
>>
>>
> Given that she's still spouting leftist bullcrap, I'd say it's pretty 
> clear what she thinks now. She doesn't appear to have an ounce of shame 
> for her dereliction of duty. I expect she'll be back where she really 
> wants to be - Africa or Cuba - before very long.

She called Castro's reign "brutal".  Did you expect that?