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0 pointstasty_freeze5y ago0 comments

You have never seen far left if you think the NYT is far left.

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offby37years5y ago

No true Bolshevik.

shanhaiguan5y ago

Words have meanings.

4eor05y ago

But meanings vary depending on region, education, political background.

Science, direct experience, is about as concrete as it gets.

the_only_law5y ago

Not any more apparently. Fascist, socialist, communist, alt-right, neoliberal, etc. just mean whatever they need to quickly slur someone with them. Hell ever Marxism seems like it doesn’t actually refer to anything Marx or his contemporaries ever said anymore. Did you know Bloomberg is a Maoist?

Fascinating how the site obsessed with their pseudo-intellectual superiority can’t add anything other than downvotes.

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Ericson23145y ago

No. The NYT has a liberal bias. Not a left bias.

mixedCase5y ago

Well what's "liberal" here? As someone not from the US, liberal means to me what people in the US call "libertarian" or "classical liberal"; and I thought "liberal" is what you call people from the democratic party, who are left-leaning statists AFAICT. Are you just saying they aren't communists? Because communism is what's normally called far-left in most of the world.

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Udik5y ago

It's the contemporary, mostly inoffensive brand of leftism: the one that obsesses over vague and all-explaining systemic issues like gender, race and climate change, while never questioning the government-fed narrative on geopolitical issues, conflicts and alliances. In other words a lot of critical posturing on the surface and a complete alignment on the deep themes that really matter.

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