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1. 🚲🍑💨⛵ (karstan@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 16:14:02 JST 🚲🍑💨⛵

   Just heard NPR describe Barbara Lee as "really far to the left" and then support that description by playing a sound bite of her saying "killing 25,000 civilians; it's catastrophic and it will never lead to peace". 🤦

   I'd like to live in a world where "killing innocent people is wrong" isn't an extremist view.

   Edit: meant to add a link. https://www.npr.org/2024/01/23/1226251765/4-major-candidates-for-california-u-s-senate-seat-clash-in-first-debate

   #uspol

   • Yakyu Night Owl (yakyunightowl@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 16:14:39 JST Yakyu Night Owl

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     • wet forest moon folklorist

     @Karstan @seachanger The new cute thing for the murderous moderate is to refer to Black people and their allies as "Far Left" and it shouldn't be a surprise. Rev. Dr. King was considered a communist because reasons too.

     NPR desperately wants to be everyone's pal, and that's one of the central weaknesses of the culture they reflect. If it means making Black folks look extreme, they would call that serving the audience.

   • 🚲🍑💨⛵ (karstan@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 16:14:40 JST 🚲🍑💨⛵

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     • wet forest moon folklorist

     @seachanger They didn't, but I'd read that elsewhere. She's legit!

     In this segment, they were distinguishing between the 3 Dem candidates: Schiff is pro-genocide (I may be paraphrasing), Porter is "in the middle", and then this bit about Lee.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 16:14:42 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     @Karstan did they mention she was one of the lone holdouts on the Iraq War? She earned so much cred with that, congress should just hand her the mic whenever the question is “should we throw down in the middle east for sketchy reasons?”