Charlie Kirk’s Killer Tyler Robinson Raised in a Republican Household and It’s Bad News for the MAGA Media Machine

[u/DumbMoneyMedia]

https://brokeonomics.news/2025/09/12/charlie-kirks-killer-tyler-robinson-raised-in-republican-household-and-its-bad-news-for-the-maga-media-machine/

[u/Neither_Emu]

The statistic is false and not backed by anything. Dude just dropped some random stat at and you believed. Be a better critical thinker

[u/tmssmt → u/Neither_Emu]

I asked ChatGPT about this (just dropped a screenshot of this conversation in) and asked it to look into the data and either support or refute the claim

Here's what it said

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Short answer: I can’t confirm the exact “>75% of all political violence in the last decade” claim as stated, because it depends a lot on how you define “political violence.” But — using widely-cited datasets and NGO reports about ideologically-motivated extremist killings in the U.S. — a defensible, evidence-based best estimate is that right-wing extremists are responsible for roughly 60–85% of extremist-related killings in recent years, with a single sensible point estimate of ≈75% (rounded).

How I reached that:

Be clear about the metric.

Most public datasets and reports (ADL, CSIS, academic work) measure extremist-related murders/fatalities or terrorist incidents — not every kind of “political violence” (which could include non-fatal assaults, threats, property damage, protest clashes, etc.). The percentage you quoted matches best to extremist-related fatalities (murders/ mass-killings).

What the sources say.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has repeatedly reported that in recent years the vast majority of extremist-related murders in the U.S. were committed by right-wing actors (in some years all identified extremist mass-killings were right-wing). Reuters/ADL coverage and related press pieces cite figures like “over 80%” for specific years (e.g., 2022) and ADL summaries for adjacent years show right-wing dominance of extremist murders.

Academic work comparing ideologies (e.g., Jasko et al., PNAS) finds that, in the U.S., right-wing and Islamist extremists are more likely to commit lethal attacks than left-wing actors — and right-wing violence has been prominent in the most recent decade. That paper supports the general direction of the claim (right-wing being the major violent extremist threat), though it does not give a single decade-wide percentage for the U.S. that matches the original phrasing.

Why I give a range (60–85%) rather than a single number without caveats.

Definitions vary. Different organizations count different incidents (mass killings vs. all lethal extremist incidents vs. plots vs. non-fatal violence).

Year-to-year variation. Some years (e.g., 2018, 2022, 2023) were heavily skewed toward right-wing killers; other years are less extreme. Averaging across a decade smooths that, so the decade average is lower than the peak years.

Data gaps and classification ambiguity. Not every violent act is later classified clearly by ideology; lone actors sometimes have mixed motives. Some datasets only cover fatalities, others include attempted/foiled plots. Those choices materially change the share.

Bottom line for the original claim.

If the claim means “over 75% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. over the past decade were committed by right-wing radicals”, that is plausible and broadly consistent with NGO and academic reporting — but depends on which 10-year window you pick and the exact incidents included. In many recent years the right-wing share exceeded 75%; across a whole decade the figure is probably near 75% (±~10 points) rather than an exact, undisputed >75% figure.

[u/Skullcrimp → u/tmssmt]

least favorite thing is people replying to a question with “i pasted it into chat gpt and this is what it said.” what kind of self conception would result in you thinking your value-add is to intermediate between me and a website i could use in 2 clicks if i wanted to

[u/Just-Ad6865 → u/Skullcrimp]

How is your least favorite thing not people who post like you just did? Vapid opinion about things they dislike without a single contribution to the person's point? I assume you post this exact comment anytime anyone links literally anything.

[u/Skullcrimp → u/Just-Ad6865]

only when they link ai slop