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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 17:04:14 -0500
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On 1/17/2025 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2025 at 12:27:48 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> If you say so...

Phew! For a second there, I thought I might be a leftist proto-commie...