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Easiest way to spot an authorian is the complaining something is not democratic while also spending time promoting antidemocratic messages.

It is a cop out. I do not believe everyone who argue against some of my views are against everyone of them. I have no idea of what part of the far right pleases you, but the point about a democracy is that nothing is fixed everything ebbs and flows. This is something conservative people have a hard time with, and when the leftwings ebbs they have a hard time.

The media is not left wing. It might be more left than the far right, but it is also along way from the far left.

Just be honest about your ideas and intentions, do not blame others for your failures.

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NYT does have a left leaning bias. Here's an example where a conservative person and a liberal person each did the same donation tax avoidance strategy, and the NYT said the conservative got "an enormous personal tax windfall", but the liberal got "no tax benefit". In reality they both got the same benefit. NYT describes the conservative person as greedy and the liberal person as selfless, for doing the same thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32847961

A few scattered examples of this does nothing to counterbalance the neoliberalism and outright cronyism of NYT. They are probably a big reason why you might even (wrongly) associate neoliberalism with leftist ideology.

Back in 2004 they withheld publishing the fact that the NSA had spliced themselves into every internet backbone. (RIP Qwest).

Back in 2002/2003, they drummed for war like all the good sycophants.

A few examples of them painting some of their toadies in a good light while trashing some of their enemies is hardly evidence of “leftism”.

If the NYT were even moderately leftist, they would have endorsed Bernie Sanders.

Your comment and others are great examples of how the NYT, as good journalism does, angers everyone. They've taken positions all over the spectrum. Look at their editorial page (though that does omit Trumpism, possibly because that is often based on falsehoods).

> If the NYT were even moderately leftist, they would have endorsed Bernie Sanders.

Only progressives think Sanders is 'moderately leftist'.

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