Support for Political Violence Among Americans - "Around 1 in 3 younger adults (GenZ and Millennials) expressed support for political violence. Support for political violence was highest among those identifying as politically “very liberal.” Liberal GenZ women were more supportive of political violence than were GenX and Baby Boomer men. Americans with the highest level of educational attainment (graduate or professional degree) were about twice as likely to support political violence than those with less formal education. Over half of Black GenZ adults agreed that “Violence is often necessary to create social change.”...
there are reasons to suspect that instances of left-wing political violence are under counted. For example, mainstream organizations that track incidents of political violence, like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), routinely suggest that political conservatives commit far more acts of political violence than do liberals. However, many have pointed out that these very organizations also routinely overlook left-wing political violence, for example, the two billion dollars of property damage, two dozen people killed, and establishment of illegal “autonomous zones” during the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd Riots of Summer 2020. In fact, in this particular case, the ACLU and SPLC ran glowing articles with titles like “The Power of Protest: Remembering the Legacy of George Floyd.”... The data from this report come from the American Political Perspectives Survey (APPS) collected from August 3, 2025, to September 26, 2025, with three thousand American adults who speak English. All respondents needed to pass (1) four attention checks, (2) a duplication check, (3) time-to-completion checks (i.e., those taking the survey in under 7 minutes were dropped), (4) fraud checks, and (5) bot-identification checks. Quota sampling was used to approximate a representative sample of the U.S. public regarding sex, race, age, and educational attainment...
No other racial group in our survey was more supportive of political violence than black GenZ respondents... In general, Asians were the least likely to agree, “Violence is often necessary to create social change.”...
there is indeed some experimental evidence that liberals really do have less empathy for conservatives than conservatives have for liberals. It is also worth noting that our findings are consistent with two other observations: (1) cross-culturally, young males tend to be more violent and (2) political terrorists are often better educated than the general public."
Clearly there is no link between attitudes and actions, which is why the right is more violent than the left and white supremacist violence is the top threat to the US
Educated people are always right, so this is proof that political violence is a good thing. At least when practised by the left
Brick Suit on X - Everyone should note the survey period dates of September 12th to 15th. Immediately after Charlie's assassination, 30% of liberals still felt violence for political goals was justified."
The American Democratic Party’s Long History of Violence - "The year 2020 is memorable for many things, chief among which was the COVID-19 virus and its disastrous consequences for health, liberty, and economic well-being. But seemingly lost in the mix was something also sinister and devastating: months of rioting in 140+ cities across America that resulted in $1-2 billion in property damage and at least 25 deaths. Despite this toll, many in the so-called mainstream media (MSM) continue to promote the canard that the riots were ‘mostly peaceful.’ Perhaps the reason for the media deception lies in the fact that the majority of those organizing, training, equipping, and fomenting the riots were members of two groups allied with the same Democratic Party which shares a bed with the MSM. Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the nascent Anti-Fascist (Antifa) movement had their DNA secreted all throughout the violence. Like a three-legged stool, the MSM, the rioters, and Democratic politicians propped up one another and engaged in tortured logic to justify the destruction. Some, to include the current Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, went so far as to encourage raising bail money for the rioters. Did the American Democratic Party suddenly discover violence in 2020 as the means to a political end? Hardly... During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, American labor unions enjoyed tremendous popularity, particularly among blue-collar workers and laborers. By some estimates, nearly 35% of the workforce was unionized during the union heyday, but today it stands at about 10%. During this time, the Democratic Party championed itself as the party of the working man, middle class America, and the blue-collar industry. Naturally, party officials formed alliances with labor unions as a way of recruiting voters and as a source of fundraising for Democratic politicians. Class warfare and class envy were powerful motivators. Strikes, walk-outs, and sick-outs became common union tactics to coerce corporate management into granting unionized workers greater perks. But they also became ways to entice local politicians to take official action favorable to the unions. This was especially true among public sector groups such as teachers’ unions. Oftentimes, these union actions became violent as the level of intensity during negotiations ratcheted up. Bullying, intimidation, assaults, and other violence benefitting Democratic politicians were not uncommon. In the intervening years, something else happened within the Democratic Party. The gradual slide to the left became a rush to embrace Socialism... The Democratic Party, like most political movements, needs causes around which to rally the masses and energize the base. Post-Civil War, it was racism and segregation. From the 1960s to the early 2000s, it was class envy with labor unions often as one vehicle for change. Today, Socialism and Marxism and a wholesale remaking of America have become the new quest. BLM openly advocates for Marxism and makes no secret about its leadership and their training as Marxists. Antifa, while proclaiming itself to be anti-fascist, engages in the boot-stomping, free speech-silencing tactics of the very fascists they allegedly abhor. As we’ve seen throughout history, the Democratic Party does not typically engage in direct violence; rather, it tends to use surrogates. Whether it’s the KKK, local mobs enforcing Jim Crow Laws, labor unions, BLM, or Antifa, the pattern is the same. That brings us to today. Have BLM and Antifa become the new KKK, trading in white robes and hoods in favor or black hoodies and face coverings? It’s hard to say, but it’s not a stretch to imagine that’s the case. That most of the 2020 rioting occurred in Democratic-run cities, in solidarity with Democratic politicians, and given cover and concealment by a dishonest and duplicitous left-wing MSM is tough to ignore. While rampant, unbridled, and horrific violence by left-wing Democratic Party militia was dismissed as ‘mostly peaceful,’ alleged right-wing violence received starkly different coverage. The January 6th, 2021 Capitol Hill protest is a case in point. Although there was a breach, and minor property damage occurred, the MSM reported it with pearl-clutching outrage and drama befitting a Shakespearean play. Only one person was killed in the actual breach—a female supporter of President Donald J. Trump—and not the five deaths the media continue to report despite it being false. Because President Trump allegedly called for violence, even though he did not, the U.S. House of Representatives rushed to an historic second impeachment. During the unconstitutional Senate trial of an already-removed President, Trump’s defense lawyers did a superb job showing dozens of examples where Democratic politicians, many of them sitting in judgment of the President at the trial, had said far worse and actually incited violence over the summer of 2020. But none of this mattered. The dishonest propagandists in the MSM ignored the obvious duplicity among their allies in the Democratic Party... the trial was never really about removal since that was already done. Rather, the Democrats and many Republicans wanted to prevent Trump from ever returning to public office. They accomplished neither, so they’ve now set their sights on his supporters. There is a veritable purge going on the in the U.S. military to root out so-called ‘white supremacists’ (Trump supporters). Politicians have called for ‘truth commissions’ and other forms of reeducation of those on the right that are so bold, they could make Chairman Mao blush in his grave. The intent is clear. If the left cannot prevent Trump from running again for office, it will do everything it can to terrify his supporters from getting behind him or anyone else like him. When the Democratic Party fails to sell its ideas and win at the ballot box, it often resorts to violence to strongarm citizens into supporting its political causes. We’ve seen this throughout history and we’re watching it play out now."
From 2021, but it applies to 2026 too
Meme - "THE FAR LEFT: "Right Wingers are insane blood cultists who celebrate killing."
ALSO THE FAR LEFT:*lots of left wingers celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder*"
Tim Young on X - "Liberals don’t realize how fortunate they are that conservatives don’t choose violence like they do."
Stacy is Right on X - "You’ve probably heard this claim repeated often: “Most extremist-related murders in the U.S. are committed by right-wing extremists.” That claim comes primarily from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and it’s widely treated as a neutral, reality-based fact. Here’s the problem: the issue is not fake data. The issue is how the data is defined, what is excluded, and how the conclusion is presented.
1) What the ADL actually measures.
The ADL does not track all violence, or even all ideologically motivated violence. It tracks violence tied to a narrow, pre-selected set of ideologies that it chooses to monitor (primarily certain right-wing and antisemitic ideologies). Other forms of ideological violence — including attacks on churches or Christian schools that are motivated by hostility toward Christianity — are often excluded or reclassified as “grievance,” “mental health,” or “non-ideological.”
2) This exclusion isn’t random.
When entire categories of relevant violence are removed by definition, the dataset is structurally shaped to produce a particular outcome. In other words, right-wing violence doesn’t just “emerge” as dominant — it dominates by construction, because other ideologically relevant violence is definitionally filtered out.
3) The ADL does not publish a full incident-level dataset.
We get aggregate conclusions, but not a transparent list of every incident included or excluded. That makes independent verification or reclassification impossible.
4) How the conclusions are presented.
Statements like “most extremist-related murders are committed by right-wing extremists” are technically true only within the ADL’s narrow framework, but they are routinely presented — and understood — as describing extremist violence as a whole. The ADL knows this. Journalists, policymakers, and the public consistently interpret these claims as comprehensive and reality-descriptive. Qualifiers buried in methodology sections don’t correct that misunderstanding. An analogy: If I sell you a car and describe it as “accident-free,” while knowing it has collision damage — but I’ve defined those collisions as “intentional, so they don’t count” — I haven’t lied word-for-word, but I’ve materially misled you, because any reasonable person understands “accident-free” to mean no collisions, not collisions excluded by definition. That’s what’s happening here. The data is real. The exclusions are intentional. The misunderstanding is desired. When real data is selectively included, entire categories are omitted, and the result is presented as reality-descriptive, the outcome is a distorted understanding of the issue. This isn’t about denying right-wing violence. It’s about honest measurement and honest presentation. Selective definitions + omitted context + headline conclusions = misleading analysis, not neutral truth. The ADL is lying."
Dustin Grage on X - "🚨 WOW: A study shows that 41% of students at the University of Minnesota say it is acceptable to use violence to stop someone from speaking on campus. This is an epidemic. Any professor who fosters this ideology must be fired immediately."
Wesley Yang on X - "Here we see the paradox of tolerance at work. If you fire the people responsible for propagating the ideological mania inspiring 41 percent of kids to think using violence to shut down speech they don’t like is justified then you are accused of hypocrisy and violating the principle of free speech yourself — and your accusers aren’t wrong. Apparently free speech compels you to allow dogmatists seeking — and succeeding — in creating a new consensus in support of the violent destruction of any possibility of free speech to keep speaking. This of course is how you got to 41 percent of the students believing this now and is how you will get 63 percent of the students to believe it in a half decade, at which point there won’t be any need for violence once nobody with a dissenting thought would dream of setting foot on a campus where violence awaits them."
To left wingers, the paradox of tolerance means they get to mob and attack anyone they disagree with
Western Lensman on X - "Sen Lankford is asked to respond to Stephen Miller’s comments about law enforcement aggressively pursuing leftwing organizations that foment violence. He immediately goes into “both sides” mode and leads off his reply talking about white supremacy."
ADL CAUGHT FALSIFYING STATISTICS TO FRAME WHITE AMERICANS
Busted: Inside the FBI Leadership Effort to Vilify White Americans by Padding Domestic Terrorism Stats...
Nick Fuentes claims he was target of assassination attempt by homicide suspect - "Right-wing influencer Nick Fuentes is claiming he was the target of an assassination attempt after a gunman also armed with a crossbow paid him a visit after allegedly killing three people earlier that night. “Last night an armed killer made an attempt on my life at my home, which was recently dox[x]ed on this platform,” Fuentes wrote on X Thursday. “The gunman carried a pistol, crossbow, and incendiary devices. I believe he intended to kill me.” In a follow-up post, Fuentes shared security video that appears to show an armed man wearing a motorcycle helmet and carrying weapons. He can be seen ringing the doorbell of Fuentes’ Berwyn, Illinois, home and fidgeting with the doorknob... The Berwyn Police Department appeared to support Fuentes’ story"
Peachy Keenan on X - "It's an old cliche by now, but everyone knows you can't wear a MAGA hat in a blue city. Everyone knows you might get assaulted, killed, or at the very least screamed at, spit on, your car keyed. Conservatives in LA are very careful never to put political stickers on their cars or hang Trump flags on their homes. If you do, you are risking death, violence, getting swatted. But if you wore a Kamala or Hillary hat in a red city all you would get are eye rolls. This has been the case for a decade now. Liberals have never been asked to explain this. Everyone accepts this as just part of life in blue cities -- zero tolerance for political differences."
Luke Rosiak on X - "A man arrested with 200 explosives outside of a church event for Supreme Court justices on Sunday had a manifesto showing that his anger was directed at the Supreme Court, ICE, Catholics, and Jews, @realdailywire found. Last year, 3 conservative justices were at the special Mass."
i/o on X - "As someone with a longstanding interest in the political violence of the late-60s and 70s, I feel fairly confident saying that the US is currently experiencing the highest level of political violence in about a half century. The current levels still pale in comparison with the early-70s, but hardly a week goes by in which there isn't yet another incident or foiled plot. Like the 70s, we're now in a period of deep polarization and eroding trust in institutions. I don't believe the polarizing issues are as deep now as they were in the early 70s, but the existence of online echo chambers and the growing absence of elite consensus makes me worry that things could very quickly get a lot worse."
Meme - "Since Hasan wants to claim that the clip, in which he told his 100ks of Twitch followers to go murder people, was "out of context," I just wanted to remind everyone that Hasan called for the assassination of @TomCottonAR to his roughly 1 million followers."
hasanabi @hasanthehun: "6-pellet capsule. Electrical cord. Vinyl tape. Metal pipes. Triggers. Battery." *diagram of gun*
Tom Cotton @TomCottonAR: "I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way."
Meme - Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminjlee: "Reddit bans you if you say men are not women but allows you to call for assassinating any moderately RW person"
Reddit Lies @reddit_lies: "You have no idea just how bad the assassination culture is over there."
"Do him next please ;)" *Asmongold*
Selectively enforced terms of service means Reddit isn't biased
Cernovich on X - "The Weather Underground was the 1970's iteration of Charlie Kirk's murderers. Members of the Weather Underground went on to jobs at tenured college professors. Bill Ayers was Barack Hussein Obama's mentor and ghost writer. Even most conservatives aren't aware of this."
TastefulLindy on X - "Just this year Angela Davis was awarded an honorary doctorate from Cambridge"
Curtis Yarvin on X - "Wonder if Angela Davis could still be prosecuted somehow for her fun murder caper. She was farcically acquitted on state charges by an all-lib Marin jury. But she may have committed a Federal civil rights violation by capping that honky judge for being a stale pale square male
DeCarlos also muttered “got that white girl” after he killed Iryna. Clear case of a Federal hate crime confession. All these 60s communist laws were designed to suppress (right-wing) political violence. They just need a quick brush up and ready for action good as new"
Peter Boghossian on X - "For years, I’ve pointed out the tactical error of putting a new political weapon in the arena because one’s opponents can and will use it. What I failed to see was the sprawling arsenal already there, quietly ignored by the right. Until now."
GB News on X - "‘It’s rubbish to say right-wing protesters are the violent ones, time after time they’re peaceful, then the hard left turn up and things kick off!’ Gawain Towler says the swarming of Sophie Reaper by pro-migrant protesters in Altrincham was an assault on free speech."
Utopian Incrementalist on X - "Read "Days of Rage." Radical leftists in the 1970s thought the ruling class would only understand the language of violence. Turns out, all it does is marginalize and discredit whoever tries to use violence for political ends."
Liberalism Appreciator on X - "The Far-Left spent 1967-74 doing all sorts of bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations and none of those things accomplished anything and proved to be so inconsequential in the grand scheme of things we've basically forgotten most of it even happened."
Meme - "It is time to admit that the only way we can truly win against the far-right is to kill them. Then, and only then, will we be truly free from their hate.
Lucy Brown"
From the classic article, Laughter: The New Symbol of the Far-Right
