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The Growing Threat of Political Violence From the Left
Newsweek ^ | 6/11/25 | Jesus Mesa

Posted on 09/10/2025 12:43:38 PM PDT by DallasBiff

'Assassination Culture'

While right-wing extremism is regularly dissected and denounced in mainstream media, conservatives have long complained that political violence from the left regularly receives less scrutiny—or is reframed entirely to dismiss the perpetrators' progressive views. This perceived imbalance has fueled a growing belief, often discussed on conservative subreddits, in right-leaning Substacks, and on X, that left-wing violence is minimized or rationalized, while right-wing violence is amplified and condemned.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a nonpartisan organization that studies the spread of hate, manipulation, and extremism across digital platforms, has raised these concerns recently. Based at Rutgers University, the group uses machine learning and data analytics to identify emerging threats and ideological patterns online.

"We're witnessing the alarming rise of what the NCRI calls an 'assassination culture,'" said Max Horder of the NCRI, in an interview with Newsweek. "Violence targeting figures like Donald Trump or Elon Musk has gone beyond normalization—it's being sanctified as resistance by parts of the political left."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: antifa; charliekirk; democrats; democratterrorism; democratterrorists; leftists; trantifa; violence
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To: Ge0ffrey

By any means necessary.


21 posted on 09/10/2025 1:01:38 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: rktman

On the newsfeed, there are news stories appearing on Facebook - you look at the reactions - tons of leftists reacting with the smiling/laughing emoji. They think it is great someone could be shot / potentially murdered because they disagree with their political opinions.

This is who they are, folks. Vile, total morally depraved culture the Democrats have created. There is no “common ground” with them. They can only be defeated.


22 posted on 09/10/2025 1:02:15 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: ClearCase_guy

‘I think President Trump should start arresting trouble-makers. And pull FCC licenses for some of the trouble-makers.’

I agree, big time! Starting with Schwartz Gyorgy!


23 posted on 09/10/2025 1:02:27 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Responding to their random acts of violence with our own undermines everything, and plays into their hands. Let them reap the public reaction to their own excesses.

Who is calling for retaliation? My original post called for justice, with arrests of criminals based on evidence, and Clear Case Guy was simply agreeing….

24 posted on 09/10/2025 1:04:17 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: DallasBiff

We have 47 for 3 more years snd we will need him.


25 posted on 09/10/2025 1:04:49 PM PDT by toddausauras (47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 )
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To: Republican Wildcat

Yup!


26 posted on 09/10/2025 1:06:37 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: DallasBiff

The Democrat Communist Party has been calling for blood for ten years.


27 posted on 09/10/2025 1:09:29 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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28 posted on 09/10/2025 1:11:29 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: DallasBiff

bkmk


30 posted on 09/10/2025 1:14:42 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: G Larry
The problem for Conservative Christians is that we want to go to Heaven.

This inhibits us from arming up and going on the offense.

The Left has no such inhibitions and uses that to their advantage.

Back to sanity post. Yes, they are not worth it as a reason to go to eternal hell. Let the authorities handle it. Hard to say, but true.

31 posted on 09/10/2025 1:15:45 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: DallasBiff

Interesting interview on Fox live now this minute, young man who was right there and who believes the person who immediately turned himself in had no weapon and the person being interviewed was told by a firefighter that they are still looking for the shooter. The interviewee thought the whole thing was a setup that more people were involved because of the fact that one or more people immediately confessed and he did not believe the person turning themselves in was to shoot her. No idea of the accuracy of this.


32 posted on 09/10/2025 1:15:58 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: rktman

This is all coming from the left.

I thought 2 attempts on president trump would have been enough to stoke some action. It hasn’t. Today it’s Charlie Kirk. Tomorrow? Who’s next? When will we go after these lunatics in the media with everything we have? Because these are the ones stoking this violence.


33 posted on 09/10/2025 1:19:19 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: Republican Wildcat

The left tells us we are hitler and that they HATE US. Yet we are suprised when this happens. They hail as many J6ers as they can. From grandmas to housewives. Blacks tell us they hate whitey. They HATE the right. How many times do they have to tell us before we take them at their word?


34 posted on 09/10/2025 1:21:09 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: Adder
I would say they are behaving this way because the are NOT winning the argument.

I was being ironic.

35 posted on 09/10/2025 1:23:32 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DallasBiff

Lord be with this young father and impactful leader of the new Republican Party. Evil reins in this world, and now we are brought to this wicked event and left to pray continuously, fervently, and energetically to our Lord and Savior for Charlie’s survival and full recovery. The Communist party has arrived today where they are in revolutionary mode and are using deadly tactics against civil ideas because they have none of their own, so now they are going kinetic. We pray that the God who surpasses all understanding will turn this nihilistic state in our society around.


36 posted on 09/10/2025 1:30:40 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: G Larry

The problem for Conservative Christians is that we want to go to Heaven.
This inhibits us from arming up and going on offense.
The Left has no such inhibitions and uses that to their advantage.
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be
reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
The Dalai Lama, May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times


37 posted on 09/10/2025 1:45:51 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: DallasBiff

I practice target shooting as much as I can, and do not hunt four legged animals.

I prepare for a specific species to hunt when thing break down and do not have to worry about prosecution for taking out the trash..


38 posted on 09/10/2025 2:02:58 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: God luvs America

The democrats still scream about JANUARY 6TH as if it were some national tragedy when the only ones killed were at the hands of DC police. Leftists are violent. It is not “right wing extremists” looting, rioting, attacking and murdering white people, attacking and murdering politicians, attacking and murdering cops, attacking and murdering Jews, burning cities, looting stores, fire bombing pregnancy resource centers. it is DEMOCRATS and their terrorist front groups.


39 posted on 09/10/2025 2:06:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: Steely Tom

Sorry...my /s detection meter malfunctioned.


40 posted on 09/10/2025 2:08:36 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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