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  • Gotta love the British press

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 22 21:52:04 2025
  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Jan 23 15:38:25 2025
    JAB wrote:

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    "The Morning Star" is the newspaper of the Communist Party in
    the UK! It's run by a workers co-operative, so not really the
    British press as such. It is more 'left' than most of the left
    though so you wouldn't expect it to be a fan of Trump or Musk!

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Jan 23 16:32:09 2025
    JAB wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:38:25 GMT, "Blueshirt"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    "The Morning Star" is

    AI Overview

    The morning star is a name for the planet Venus when it
    appears in the east before sunrise. It is also sometimes used
    to refer to the star Sirius or the planet Mercury.

    Methinks the British Communist Party named their newspaper after
    the red communist star...

    I could be wrong of course! :-)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 23 11:05:53 2025
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:32:09 GMT, "Blueshirt" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Methinks the British Communist Party named their newspaper after
    the red communist star...

    What does the Red Star mean in communism?

    The red five-pointed star is a symbol of the ultimate triumph of the
    ideas of communism on the five (inhabited, excluding Antarctica)
    continents of the globe. It first appeared as a military symbol in
    Tsarist Russia. It was then called the "Mars star," reminiscent of
    Mars, the ancient Roman god of war.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 23 10:23:43 2025
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:38:25 GMT, "Blueshirt" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    "The Morning Star" is

    AI Overview

    The morning star is a name for the planet Venus when it appears in the
    east before sunrise. It is also sometimes used to refer to the star
    Sirius or the planet Mercury.

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