She further replies to her own post with the following:

"the free market there, essentially what opening Cuba does, gives citizens tools of empowerment."

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/NomikiKonst/status/711990176881442817

  • kristina [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    i agree with her, we should give cuba a lot of money and free stuff

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Idk why anyone ever thought she was good. Aside from her DNC inside knowledge and advocacy for reformism. Which is borderline lib shit. Everything else about her is bad lib shit

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Even though Seder is a lib I was going to donate a few years ago because of Brooks, and then when I went to donate it came up as Sam Seder LLC or some shit like that and I noped right out of there..

        He’s less of a grifter than most, but hiring Konst wasn’t done to add perspective it was to add subscribers who are higher income libs probably, as that’s her audience

          • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            Idk. I usually don’t. Only Rev left for this comrade... but brooks having that platform was important.

            • DSA_radlib_caucus [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Yes, but Sam is a self identifying capitalist. He says it all the time on his show. Donating to his show wouldn't help people like Michael Brooks one bit, which is why he started his own platform.

        • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Losing Brooks was a major hit to the show and I can't help but wonder if that isn't somehow connected to him sidelining Jamie. Not liking the direction he's going.

      • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        that's the only reason i knew about her. Michael Brooks had her on quite a bit too.

  • asaharyev [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Honey, the Cuban people have already been liberated. :che-smile: :fidel-salute:

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    The more I learn about her, the worse she seems to get.

    How is it possible that someone like this is associated to Michael brooks in any way?

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      don't trust "leftist" who are NED assets:

      https://mronline.org/2020/12/30/meet-the-pseudo-left-imperialists-fighting-against-universal-healthcare/

      So who is Nomiki Konst, and why does she sound like an intern for the Project for a New American Century?

      According to her own bio, she not only helps coach Hollywood celebrity wannabe’s on public speaking, but she has also been an active participant in NATO’s criminal destruction of Libya.

      That’s right, self-described leftist Nomiki Konst spent time training the Islamist opposition in Libya after the NATO intervention that deposed Moammar Gaddafi and saw him murdered in the streets by jihadist proxies after NATO drones attacked his motorcade. Konst traveled to Libya thanks to the National Democratic Institute, one of the subsidiaries of the very same CIA cutout, the National Endowment for Democracy, that funds Bellingcat.

      Beyond her part in bringing slavery back to the African continent, Nomiki Konst was trained as a “millennial thought leader” by the Truman National Security Project, a Democratic party-aligned, pro-war think tank that helped groom noted revolutionary leaders like Pete Buttigieg and Michele Flournoy.

      The Truman National Security Project was formed to create a “new generation of hawkish Democrats rethinking security questions in a post-9/11 world.” Nomiki seems to fit perfectly with the brand.

      Here’s millennial thought leader Nomiki Konst discussing her time in Libya in a 2013 interview,

      When it comes to NATO, all I witnessed was Libyans being incredibly grateful to NATO because it was so targeted. You’d go by these buildings where NATO struck the buildings and they just imploded, it was amazing.
      

      Even in 2015, long after the liberal hawks who pushed Obama to strike Libya had been wholly discredited and the country was in perpetual chaos, Konst stood by her support for the attack, tweeting that the neocon senator Marco Rubio was right about Libya.

      • CommCat [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        holy fuck, I haven't followed the radlib youtubers like Sam Seder in years, so now liberal war hawks are part of their crew? WTF is wrong with the US "left"?

        • PhaseFour [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          WTF is wrong with the US “left”?

          It's deeply infiltrated by the State Department. But if you point this fact out, you are considered divisive.

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              I haven't seen any proof of that.

              Nomiki Konst and Ana Kasparian take money from the State Department, and Michael Brooks was ignorant of this fact. That is the most likely read I have on their relationship.

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                  If he knew they took money from the State Department, and he did not disclose that to his viewers, that would be really inappropriate.

                • DSA_radlib_caucus [none/use name]
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                  blanket statement like that made by anyone aren't useful. movements need to identify enemies, allies and threats and deal with them as such. Moreover media figures are not "regular people", but entertainers with their own agendas, which explains why people like Nomiki Cops flip flops so easily from neoliberal to faux left and back again as a branding exersize.

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    Are we finally getting rid of these supposed left icons?

  • ShoutyMcSocialism [he/him]
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    She's no Michael Brooks that's for sure. Seder shouldn't have moved right when he hired to replace Michael. He should have went for another socialist. His position as the right most person on the show when it was him, Michael, and Jamie worked well.

    • DSA_radlib_caucus [none/use name]
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      TMR has always been a radlib show. Michael and Jamie just gave it some socialist window dressing. Sam is just reverting back to his comfortable place as the token loud MSNBC democrat.

          • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah there has been a decline in the show but it’s also possible I’ve moved more left than the show has moved right.

            • Sunn_Owns [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              I used to watch several times a week. Now I try watching and usually have to turn it off because of the lib nonsense.

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      She was on the show from before Michael passed, if there's a direct replacement to Michael it's Emma. But yeah hiring her always felt like a weird move for the show, did they go with her because all they knew is she worked on Bernie's campaign?

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        Yeah that's true maybe I have the chronology messed up. Still I don't think Nomiki fits. Sams place as like your skeptical boomer social democrat uncle amongst all the leftists made for a good show. Now there's one skeptical boomer and whatever the hell Nomiki is. Like MSNBC radlib?

  • MonkeyThink [none/use name]
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    I know this is digging up old shit, but this wasn't that long ago to have awful opinions on both capitalism and Cuba. Also her using "Bernie Bro"-like attacks on anyone who criticizes her on Twitter opens her up to attacks on how much of a lib she is

  • opposide [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Just thinking about how funny it is that the US has still failed to overthrow cuba for so long. Power to the people and long live the revolution

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    Whenever these commentators say a country needs to be liberated they should preface it with "Private enterprise in [insert country] needs to be liberated," because capitalism sure as the sun rises does not help non corporate people.