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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 23:56:10 -0500
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On 1/16/2025 11:35 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-01-16 10:38 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> Even then, the US press was decidedly leftist in its views. That didn't 
> make them morally correct then any more than it does now. Using the 
> media as a moral barometer is as pointless now as it was then.

What's *not* pointless is that we live and learn.  Most of us, anyway.