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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      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.

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                You f*** . . . The Guardian, is a business. Businesses exist to make a profit. A business that made almost £300 Million last year.

                You got that in your fucking couch cushions do ya? That’s a non-profit in your august estimation is it? Oo they take donations - so does the IRS! So does trump!

                Here’s your pancakes: a major global news organization is not calling out trump’s crimes or the many, many corrupt dealings of this fascist farce any more than the Ellison or Murdoch crime families are.

                Yes, they are kinder and gentler. Yes, they are moving in the right direction. And a bunch of stormtroopers on the front lines have doubts. Woohoo. They’re sitting on a nuclear arsenal of media influence not using it as the world burns. KUDOS ON THEIR FISCAL PURITY.

                What, you need examples? Specific citations to stories they deliberately hamstrung in order to be more marketable to MAGA? We got a whole bag of it in every edition, and all it takes to unlock the super-seekrit code is to read it.

                If they weren’t cozy with the colons of billionaires they’d be publishing on substack like the rest of the journalists with nothing to lose because corporate news found a well-informed populace to be less profitable.

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                  Damn dude, is all you have disingenuous arguments, personal attacks, red herrings, strawmen, and disinformation?

                  Here’s just a few examples of The Guardian doing the things you claim they don’t do, which includes criticizing trump and fascist policy, and supporting leftists:

                  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jul/02/donald-trump-us-politics-250-anniversary-republicans-democrats-latest-news-updates

                  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/florida-undocumented-college-students

                  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/aoc-endorses-el-sayed-michigan

                  If that’s not enough, here’s two more:

                  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/trump-hijacked-250-anniversary

                  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/02/ben-jennings-us-250th-birthday-under-donald-trump-cartoon

                  And oh look, an editorial where they state the Guardian’s official opinion on the trump administration:

                  The Guardian view on Trump’s wealth and power: a medieval court wreaks havoc in the 21st century: Supreme court rulings, and revelations of the president’s enrichment since his return to office, show that he has turned back the clock

                  Next, I never called them a non-profit. If you really want to dig into their business status, here’s what wikipedia has to say about it:

                  Along with its sister paper, The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to “secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference”. The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for The Guardian the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders.

                  Not exactly a massive capitalistic hegemony. Oh, and $300 million is peanuts compared to billionaire revenues. This discussion started when you called them “billionaire news.” A few hundred million does not a billionaire make.

                  Lastly, you want them publishing on substack instead? Where comparatively no one will read their articles? They have better reach as they are, and I see no reason to change that.

                  Also, substack is riddled with neonazis.

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                    Damn dude, is all you have disingenuous arguments, personal attacks, red herrings, strawmen, and disinformation?

                    Right. You didn’t even read it. Ok.

                    Here’s just a few examples of The Guardian doing the things you claim they don’t do, which includes criticizing trump and fascist policy, and supporting leftists:

                    Sure we’ll take a look at these exciting counterarguments but just fyi even fox news criticizes trump and fascist policy. “Supporting leftists” might be too far for fox news but hey the guardian’s found a niche! They’re supporting leftists! (Don’t tell the leftists that though, they won’t like it)

                    Next, I never called them a non-profit. If you really want to dig into their business status, here’s what wikipedia has to say about it:

                    Thanks for the highest-level overview possible but I already covered that in much more detail than that - it was in what you already didn’t read.

                    Oh, and $300 million is peanuts compared to billionaire revenues.

                    £300 million or $400M US. Peanuts huh. Ok. Lemmy.world has revenues of $85,0000. The Guardian makes 4700 times that. “on donations” according to you. But that wouldn’t affect their editorial stance would it? Can . . . Can money change what people say? Noooooo. Unpossible. I mean it would take several hundred trillion to get someone to refer to sane persons as “critics”. At least.

                    Don’t get hung up on substack. It’s just a reference point. And yes, death to nazis.

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                  You’re pulling so much shit out of your ass it’s hard to believe you’re not a troll. Every single comment you’ve made here reads like you’re replying to completely different comments than you actually are. You’re getting angry about so many things that weren’t even hinted at. And this isn’t about who’s wrong, it’s fully about you clearly having some major mental issue that makes you unable to have a reasonable debate.