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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: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:27:48 -0500
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On 1/17/2025 1:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2025 at 7:38:05 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> 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.
> 
> Oh, you mean that bunch of leftist proto-communists? Quelle surprise.

Over 70 years ago, Batista was unspeakable and Castro was a war hero.