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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: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:28:47 -0000 (UTC)
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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...