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The presentation is only as absurd as it is because the facts were stubbornly included.
There is nothing leftist about it either: this article is clearly written to be intentionally moderate. That's precisely what I am criticizing here: the moderate political voice is blatantly shoehorned in a way that makes the whole article incoherent.
It would be one thing to actually support a moderate stance; but that isn't happening either. Instead, we have a vain appeasement to the pipe dream that is political neutrality. Who is it for? You?