The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.

The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

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        It’s The Guardian, they operate on reader donations so that they’re not beholden to billionaires.

        The word choice here is somewhat poor, but I don’t get the sense that this article is lamenting…

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            Gee, I don’t know. Why don’t you click on the link and see if there’s any ads? I sure didn’t see any, but maybe your eyes are better than mine…

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                    No, that’s not what I said at all. Where the fuck did you pull that out of?

                    You snarkily said “they don’t run ads?” As if that backs up your point that they’re captured by billionaire interests after I told you that they run on reader donations.

                    I’m telling you there’s no ads when I read their articles, and you’re acting like there are. Well I don’t see any.

                    I’m not complaining that they don’t run ads. I’m telling you you’re wrong for insinuating their primary source of funding is from ad revenue.

                    This is a pancakes and waffles situation.