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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by nwienert on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:27AM (#36289648)
He is extremely far left but had a new show coming out and needed to generate a bit of hype
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by defrost on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:51AM (#36289842)
"extremely far left" by US standards, sure .. otherwise pretty moderate middle of the road.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by nwienert on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:06AM (#36289943)
By which standards? Every country is different, even within Europe there are much more conservative countries than the US.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by whimsicalism on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:20AM (#36293872)
> "extremely far left" by US standards, sure .. otherwise pretty moderate middle of the road.

Globally the world is right of the US on most issues, but you're probably pretending that the rest of the world is just Europe.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by George83728 on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:28PM (#36300531)
Unsurprisingly, Americans generally evaluate American media by American standards.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by ryanbrunner on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:30AM (#36294081)
He's never run for political office or anything like that so most of what we can glean is from his shows, which for sure attack the right more than the left but don't advance their own policy proposals.

The most overt stuff he has done politically is the late 2000s rally with Colbert which was very middle-of-the-road decorum-focused Democrat in tone, I don't think there's a lot of evidence for him being "hard left". If I had to guess, I think he'd be more in line with the Obama / Biden type camp than Sanders.

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