Re: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass's Pro-Communist History

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.
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      https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1878367072138452992/pu/vid/
      avc1/720x1280/_oLkAxJvVM4FxImw.mp4?tag=12

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      That sinister video, if swallowed, should perhaps be chased with
      something like this Atlantic article:
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          "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.
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      (The article is partially paywalled, so I'm just guessing...)
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      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.

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    Times change.  E.g., you *do* remember that Castro was first a "hero"...

        To whom?

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  The U.S. press as a whole, iirc.

    Oh, you mean that bunch of leftist proto-communists? Quelle surprise.

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

 If you say so...