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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass's Pro-Communist History
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:23:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jan 17, 2025 at 2:04:14 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> 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...

You're not out of the woods yet.