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That 70% figure is only achieved because they separated right-wing and Islamic extremists. Islamic extremists are right-wing extremists. If you add up all the categories who are right-wing it's over 95%.
I can do basic math and tell you that it's not over 95%, though it isn't far off. With ~50 from left wing even if the rest was right wing, you'd need a total of over 1k, which there isn't.
I should've said "over 90%" because this adds up to 93%. You felt the need to leave this comment and make me break out a calculator over 2%? There was another study that showed right-wing at 97% which is where I got that "over 95%." I wrongly assumed this study was the same one that was posted yesterday.
Yes, since it was pretty obviously wrong. I didn't do the calculation.
"I can do basic math" and "it was pretty obviously wrong" are goofy things to say if you didn't do the calculation in the first place, lol.
Not really. For it to be less than 5% the total has to be a least 20x. You don't need exact numbers to see the total isn't close to 1k.
Nothing is actually calculated unless you want to count adding 3+2+2+1+1, rounding the big categories up. And 50x20, now that I think about it.
Neat trick! It's always nice to find someone online who's more autistic than I am : )
Ehh, probably more a habit because of my job, software developer. We generally don't care about specific amounts. We care about orders of magnitude. So it's usually just very rough estimates.
Believe it or not, we sometimes have trainings to help teach people how to do estimates for things that are basically unknowable. Like, how many steps every participant in a race took (think Boston Marathon), or how many doors are in a city.
Man, only if they put this same effort in the Epstein files.
Who cares fake news ran with it was a liberal... Everyone now moved one and in their minds he is a liberal.
Propaganda be like that. Useful idiots don't care about the facts. A good narrative is more important.
Those officials will soon be replaced with ones that tow the line.
"Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive,”
Kirk’s ideology
His ideology? You mean like christo-fascism and the right in general? The shooter found it "personally" offensive instead of politically offensive this "one" time?
its crazy the amount of spin being put on this so it doesn't turn into an other Luigi.
why "yet" though.. as if they are in the making...
Because that's the predetermined outcome the FBI is trying to manufacture.
I ready he thought charlie kirk was not far enough to the right. He was a nick fuentes groyper.
Shhhhhhhh! Talk like that can get you cancelled.
When reached for comment, the investigator said, 'look, we were trying to find every angle that it was a left wing extremist. If we don't soon, just make some shit up. Hail Trump'
I'm glad this motherfucker's going into the ground today. Time to start moving on to the next controversy.
But....but he used Reddit and knew a trans person!!! That's all the evidence you need to prove he was a leftist!!!!
If true, that trans person was his lover. That is a big fucking leap over merely knowing one.
The liberal trans turned out to be israel and Mossad lol
"They have not yet tried hard enough to find it!"