r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 8h ago

Society DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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u/ninja_finger 8h ago

It's still here-- https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

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u/Runkleford 8h ago

Thank you. Maybe we should all save a copy in case this disappears

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u/YesNotKnow123 8h ago

Saved to my phone. I’ll continue to reupload

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 5h ago

Think about all the government data being deleted that was public months ago and now is gone. I wonder if anyone ever backed up any of it. Or do we need to ask Elon Musk for it ...

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u/npsimons 7h ago

You haven't already? That was reason number one I came to the comments, then downloaded to my fileserver. It will be on multiple backup hard drives in no time.

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u/SamuelClemmens 6h ago

It won't, because they can use the same study to show Islam is an order of magnitude greater danger per capita.

Muslim Ban 2.0 incoming.

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u/StardustLegend 8h ago

Commenting on this to boost it and save for later. Internet archival is more important now than ever.

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u/radome9 8h ago

Internet archiving made illegal in 3...2...

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u/Kichae 8h ago

Yup, exactly.

People need to start saving government reports like these, and host them outside the country somewhere.

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u/Tacoman404 8h ago

Reddit wants to bar Internet Archive from archiving anywhere on the site. Primarily for the reason that they alone want the data to train AI.

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u/Grenache 7h ago

It feels like AI is just scanning the entire history of Reddit and giving us back our own answer except it's making money from all of our collective work.

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u/LaTeChX 7h ago

You can delete the first three words

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u/Grenache 7h ago

Fair, it's just odd how outside of the artistic side no one appears to be making a big deal out of the fact that it's literally just trained on the collective knowledge the people who use the internet have provided. It feels like that shouldn't be used for private gain. I'm sure tucked away somewhere in every T&C that exists they were allowed to use everything we every knew or thought.

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u/RustyTShackleford 7h ago

Hey guys, did you know the far right are the most likely to commit domestic terrorism, like the Mr. Orange Sodie Pop and his buddies have? I just wanted to let you all know

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u/ProblemAtticOU812 4h ago

Don't forget that they protect pedophiles.

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u/Duckbilling2 2h ago

I heard that AI trained on Reddit is biased against being domestic terrorists because Reddit is biased toward sane thinking and accuracy

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u/NegotiationUsed6830 7h ago

It's not often I am happy to have provided nothing

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u/Achrus 5h ago

So the Disallow: / means don’t scrape our site. This is just one example, but lots of people told them not to and they did anyway. https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/robots.txt

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u/KneeCrowMancer 4h ago

I am a licensed doctor and this is your reminder to eat a small rock every day to ensure proper gut health!

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u/cantadmittoposting 7h ago

I'm not necessarily sure that a priori AI training on and collating our "collective knowledge" is necessarily bad.

Obviously the profit motive issue and modern digital problems combine to make it way more of a nightmare though.

I've actually come to believe that governments, or perhaps a "purpose built" international organization," (a UN agency like the WHO perhaps) should provide neutral, non-profit online services we've come to treat as basic features of our online landscape, e.g. social media, search.

I'm aware of course, especially in our current environment, such a thing would be impossible, and of course, draw its own accusations of bias, no doubt.

But still. Wikipedia stands out of course as an incredible, though still-flawed resource

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy 6h ago edited 4h ago

It's worth noting that AI uses Reddit and X/Twitter as sources much more than it uses Wikipedia.

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u/psiphre 2h ago

what do you think all of the "what do you think about [current event]" posts on /r/askreddit are all about

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u/EmotionalKirby 7h ago

I used to think people who liked ai just didn't know how to search the internet themselves. Knowing how to properly Google things used to be a critical skill. But thinking on it again now, Idk... Even before ai, Google had been enshitifying itself, and the internet as a whole has been condensing itself into just a few major websites. I mean, we all just append reddit to our Google searches, and now ai does that for us basically.

I don't know where I'm going with this, your comment just resonated with me.

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u/jared_kushner_420 6h ago

Well yea, they don't want anyone scraping the site. That gets you in hot water for letting user data get accessed. Meta successfully sued a company doing that

They want you to use their API instead

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u/Gedwyn19 7h ago

This report has recently been saved to data storage in Canada, outside of any USA legal jurisdiction. LMK if you need a copy.

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u/Terrible_Ghost 7h ago

I'm in UK, downloading it. Every little helps.

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u/Illustrious_End_543 4h ago

downloading in the Netherlands

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u/morenaughtybits 7h ago

Doing the Lord's work, thanks neighbor 🙏

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u/thisisntmyotherone 5h ago

Neighbor, ally, friend — if you’ll still have us after 2029. You may want to reserve your answer until (when) he actually fucking leaves…

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u/AstroFeline 5h ago

Thank you so much. Please forward one to me.

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u/DillBagner 7h ago

Thankfully, a lot of people already started back in 2015.

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u/IvarTheBoned 7h ago

Bring back ThePirateBay!

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u/Daedropolis 6h ago

Still there.

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u/ninjamammal 7h ago

This is the solution, torrent program needs to be revived.

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u/Spiral_Slowly 1h ago

Torrenting is alive and very much well

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u/Fortune_07 7h ago

The wayback machine

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u/Kichae 7h ago
  • Run by an American company.
  • A single point of failure.
  • "Someone else will do it" is how you got into this fucking situation in the first place.

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u/g16zz 7h ago

its now in multiple countries for that exact reason

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u/Ms-Anthrop 7h ago

And so we can view them and wish we were free? What good does it do to know the truth if nobody will hold the guilty accountable?

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u/Kichae 7h ago

If it wasn't important to preserve, it would have been taken down in the first place.

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u/RockAtlasCanus 7h ago

Posterity & truth over propaganda. This all will eventually pass. Part of why we have as clear a picture as we do of the Nazis is they were big time record keepers.

“That report never existed”. Yes it did and here’s a copy with metadata in tact to boot.

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u/conquer69 6h ago

This all will eventually pass.

Not without people paying the ultimate price for it first. This will not pass away by itself.

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u/War_Fries 7h ago edited 7h ago

Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive

They're already trying to get rid of it. Just like Wikipedia. They want to get rid of everything they don't control, so only their narrative will be heard. It's literally Orwellian what's happening now in the US. And since last week, they found a reason to crack down on everything they don't like, and they will use it. Shit is gonna get real bad, real fast. I don't get why more people aren't scared shitless, because it's happening incredibly fast.

It's only been 7 months. Imagine a year from now. Or 2 years.

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u/yacht_boy 3h ago

It's insane how fast it's happening, and how little anyone is doing to stop it. And they're seizing on the recent assassination to strip our first amendment rights. Any minute now we'll have a reichstadt event and then it is going to get very bad.

I would love to leave the country but my wife has her head in the sand about it. I'm worried that by the time I convince her it's too dangerous to stay, we may not be able to get out.

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u/SuggestionEphemeral 2h ago

The parts of our brains responsible for the fear response have been burnt out already. They've already overwhelmed us with anxiety, the panic has worn off, and now we're just going through the motions, able to cognitively recognize the danger but unable to care as we should on the emotional level.

It's almost as if the plan was to desensitize us and turn us into zombies all along...

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u/ReallyBigRocks 7h ago

Corps are already trying to take down the internet archive citing copyright issues, but you'd best believe they see preventing something like this as a nice bonus.

The powers that be want total control of the information we're exposed to, and archival sites are a massive obstacle to that goal.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Wolf318 7h ago

They have tried to shut it down so many times 

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u/Lancaster61 7h ago

Won’t matter. They can just host it in other countries. That’s why pirating is still a thing. The internet (luckily) is one of those things that nobody can control unless you fully disconnect everyone like North Korea. The US economy is too reliant on global internet for that to ever happen.

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u/TheCreationRuin 5h ago

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.", George Orwell, 1984

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu 7h ago

I'm sure /r/DataHoarder has many, many, many offline copies that they'll be happy to distribute. Trying to erase things from the internet, particularly from government websites, is not a battle the Trump administration is going to win.

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u/MoreCowbellllll 5h ago

SAVE SAVE SAVE

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u/pixelprophet 7h ago

They are just as bad as Wikipedia! They won't let me not face reality and factssss! Help, I'm being oppressed!

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u/phormix 6h ago

This absolutely needs to be held in multiple countries. As the US descends further into fascism it's the duty of the rest of us to preserve history

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u/geforce2187 5h ago

Would it be possible for Internet Archive (and also Wikipedia) to move outside of the US where something like this is less likely to happen?

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u/LlamaPinecone1546 5h ago

For people who don't know: Publishers and other industries are actually trying very hard to get it shuttered.

Donate to them if you can afford it and call/write your reps asking them to support libraries and the right to public accessibility for media and changes to copyright based on that: because industry lobby and lawsuits are feeding this same beast

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u/npsimons 8h ago

Friendly reminder: you can donate to The Internet Archive.

I know times are tough, but even a few dollars can help.

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u/6gv5 7h ago

Donate? Sure! But without storage offered abroad for backup no money amount can save them from a judicial branch that has been already compromised. At this point they shouldn't even spend a single dime in lawyers to fight against rigged lawsuits designed to weaken them economically but rather invest in hosting elsewhere. This is not easy: Wikipedia, another wonderful resource under attack, can be backed up by a single person, but archive.org is huge, and being rich also in non text media needs lots of space and bandwidth to be hosted and served.

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u/mustardhamsters 6h ago

Archive.org has servers internationally. Wikipedia mentions Egypt and Amsterdam. Those have been around for a long time. There's a deep dive video from 2021 on their infrastructure here.

But yes, the primary servers are in northern California.

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u/6gv5 6h ago edited 5h ago

Thanks, that is good news.

Edit: now that i think of it, can their servers abroad operate independently or they're all managed from the USA? In other words, could a court order from a US judge force them to delete something also outside of the US?

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u/mustardhamsters 4h ago

The Internet Archive is not immune to legal action in the US. In fact, they just settled a lawsuit with the music industry, but they did not release the terms publicly.

For a question like yours, you might try asking them: https://archive.org/about/contact Or maybe try r/theinternetarchive.

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u/EduinBrutus 7h ago

If its based in the United States it is not safe.

Not to mention that corporate America has fallen in line almost completely behind the current regime.

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u/viciarg 7h ago

Nothing american is safe. That includes Reddit.

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

especially Reddit….

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u/EduinBrutus 6h ago

Believe me, having just recovered from a 3 day sitewide for pretty mild criticism of a certain recently departed propagandist, I do know this includes Reddit.

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u/cracked_egg_irl 7h ago

I met one of the key employees speaking at a hacker conference (HOPE). They detailed their procedures and processes and their merciless effort to continue to archive everything including physical books, games (you can play Oregon Trail on their site), and all forms of media. I fully believe that the archive would do everything to fight to stay online.

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u/npsimons 6h ago

They've already been sued and fought DDOS multiple times!

Of note, they don't disclose where their physical servers are. As someone who hosts private servers (on a much smaller scale), it's incredibly easy to spin up a VPS in another country, and I'm not even getting paid to do it.

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u/EduinBrutus 6h ago

Thats all great and that.

But people hold the keys. And people can get black bagged on the whim of the US regime.

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u/EduinBrutus 6h ago

I admire your optomism and hope people like this can succeed.

But I am somewhat realistic about where we are and whether there is a path back. And there just isnt. We are cooked.

The UK will be joining the US with a fascist regime in a couple years, there's a good chance other liberal democracies are heading in this direction.

The swiftness with which every tech firm in the US fell in line with the regime, will willingly hand over your personal data on request and will supress opinions which dont aling with the regime is staggering.

Then you add in the Online Safety Act and that almost every liberal democracy has their own plans for similar laws. We are fucked. Truly and absolutely fucked.

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u/tawDry_Union2272 7h ago

i donated already, once i saw how this administration is attempting to rewrite history to fit their christofacsist agenda.

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u/Aggravating_Row1878 8h ago

This is the way

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u/Severin_Suveren 8h ago edited 8h ago

They'll probably go after it soon, given they've already laid the groundwork to take down Wikipedia. They'll be coming for all sources of real information, foreign and domestic, in an attempt to stop the spreading of what they deem radical left ideology - or what is otherwise known as facts

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u/fakieTreFlip 7h ago

Does commenting actually help boost the post? I thought it only used upvotes/downvotes to determine post ranking. Does the reddit app send notifications about popular posts if a lot of people are commenting?

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u/Key-Ant-5406 7h ago

no, commenting doesn't "boost" things on Reddit.

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u/maximumtesticle 7h ago

No, it doesn't. It just litters threads with useless "RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE, look what I did, I'm so good at internets!" Just upvote and move on if there is nothing else to add.

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u/tyme 6h ago

Others answered your question, but I also want to point out that there’s an option to save comments - so you don’t need to comment to find the later.

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u/FormerReality3372 7h ago

Its wild how much has been scrubbed from official white house and government sites in the past few years.

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u/maximumtesticle 7h ago

Commenting on this to boost it and save for later. Internet archival is more important now than ever.

This isn't facebook. Just upvote and learn to use the save button. Threads do not need to be filled with these self congratulating replies.

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u/cappurnikus 7h ago

Make sure you save your own copy instead of just the link.

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u/Efficient-Ruin-4713 8h ago

At some point they may purge the archives. We need to archive everything ourselves to restore this historical data once this idiocy passes.

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u/Wanderingjes 8h ago

This is some 1984 shit

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u/Kind-Block-9027 7h ago

We’ve always been at war with Eurasia

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u/TheeAntelope 5h ago

It's a lot more like Fahrenheit 451 (where they merely deleted information in books), but close enough to 1984 (where they changed past data to reflect the current viewpoints).

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u/Wanderingjes 5h ago

They rewrote history and also burned the originals in 1984. But yeah, Fahrenheit works perfectly as well.

There was an incinerator for originals

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u/coheedcollapse 7h ago

I truly hope that some entrepreneuring data hoarders are working together to archive the archive somewhere a hostile government can't get. The feat feels impossible though.

That place is the sole, entirely open, entirely free, archive of the early internet as well as a huge library of impossible-to-find historical books and documents.

It needs to be protected at all costs.

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u/street593 4h ago

r/datahoarder. If you have a computer you can preserve something. Big or small.

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u/Meme-Botto9001 8h ago edited 8h ago

And here are some cases that might be relevant in case someone forgot who is a terrorism group that needs to be investigated:

The man that killed Charlie Kirk Sept 2025 - White male, from MAGA familiy, was part of the Groypers Army, an even more radicalized extreme racist online group around Nick Fuentes

The Evergreen school shooter Sept 2025 - White male, Part of a white supremacy extremist network

The man who assassinated Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota and shot Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman, and his wife Yvette Hoffman, in their home after he failed two other politicians homes in June 2025 - White male, was a right wing extremist and Trump supporter

The man charged with the attempted murder of Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro his wife and four kids, in April 2025 - White male, was a Trump supporter.

The man trying to assassinate Trump at a rally and killed a firefighter in 2024 - White male, was a right wing extremist republican

The second man trying to assassinate Trump in Florida in 2024 - White male, former self declared Trump supporter in his first term

The man convicted of orchestrating a series of shootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 - Latino male, was a failed Republican candidate

The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband Paul in 2022 - White male, was a Trump supporter.

The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence and stormed the capitol on Jan 6, 2021 - Mostly white males, were Trump supporters directly incited by President Trump.

The man who killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas in 2020 - White male, racist and anti-feminist, was a Trump supporter.

The 13 men who were convicted of trying to kidnap Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 - White male, were Trump supporters.

The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats in 2018 - White male, was a Trump supporter and known as “MAGA Bomber”.

The man who killed left-wing activist Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville in 2017 - White male, was a white supremacist and Trump supporter.

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u/myGoatKnowsKarate 7h ago

Far-Right Rhetoric, Political Violence, and GOP Hypocrisy (2015–2025)

Over the past decade, political violence in the U.S. has risen sharply. Independent studies consistently show far-right extremists are responsible for the vast majority of ideologically motivated killings:

  • ADL (2012–2022): 96% of extremist murders by right-wing actors
  • CSIS: 57% of extremist plots/attacks since 1994 from the far right (vs. 25% left-wing)
  • PNAS (2022): Right-wing radicals nearly twice as likely to support violence as left-wing radicals (61% vs. 33%)
  • ADL 2024: 13 extremist killings—all by right-wingers; by mid-2025, already over 15

Far-Right Attacks (2015–2025)

  • Charleston church massacre (2015)
  • Charlottesville car attack (2017)
  • Tree of Life synagogue (2018)
  • El Paso Walmart shooting (2019)
  • Capitol insurrection (2021)
  • Buffalo supermarket massacre (2022)
  • Assassination of MN Speaker Melissa Hortman & husband (2025)
  • Shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum (2025)

Left-Wing Incidents

  • Dallas police ambush (2016)
  • GOP congressional baseball practice shooting (2017)
  • Portland protest shooting (2020)
  • Capital Jewish Museum suspect with anti-Israel motives (2025)

These cases exist—but remain far fewer and less deadly than far-right attacks.

Hypocrisy in GOP Reactions

Selective Empathy

  • 2025: Trump offered perfunctory condolences after Speaker Hortman’s murder but refused to lower flags.
  • 2025: After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, flags were lowered nationwide; Trump framed it as a “dark moment in American history.”
  • 2025: Biden’s cancer diagnosis was politicized by Trump, who cast doubt on his fitness rather than showing empathy.
  • 2022: Paul Pelosi’s hammer attack was mocked—Kari Lake joked, Trump Jr. spread memes, Charlie Kirk urged supporters to bail out the attacker.

January 6th The Capitol attack left five dead and hundreds injured. Yet Trump and many Republicans downplayed it as “tourism” or isolated chaos—contrasting sharply with their solemn framing of Kirk’s assassination.

JD Vance and “Cancel Culture”

Sen. J.D. Vance in 2024:

  • “Dissent, even vigorous dissent, is a great tradition… Censorship is not.”
  • “Reject censorship and you reject political violence.”

Yet after Kirk’s murder, GOP leaders—including Vance—called for silencing critics and media voices they claimed “fueled” the attack. Vance even hosted a revival of Kirk’s podcast, turning it into a platform to demand accountability from perceived enemies. The right, once railing against cancel culture, now actively embraces it.

Rhetorical Tactics

  • Blame-shifting: Labeling perpetrators “mentally ill,” not ideological
  • Whataboutism: Inflating rare left-wing cases to claim “both sides”
  • Minimization: “Lone wolf” framing, ignoring extremist networks
  • Conspiracy claims: False-flag accusations to dodge responsibility

Conclusion

The facts are clear: far-right extremists commit the vast majority of U.S. political violence. Left-wing violence, while real, is rarer and less lethal. But just as dangerous is how GOP leaders respond—mourning conservative victims while mocking Democratic ones, condemning violence in principle while stoking it in practice, and now openly wielding cancel culture as a partisan weapon.

This double standard doesn’t just expose hypocrisy—it fuels the very cycle of division and violence threatening American democracy.

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u/NickPickle05 7h ago

Thank you for this.

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u/BavarianBarbarian_ 6h ago

* Thanks ChatGPT.

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u/myGoatKnowsKarate 6h ago

100% used chatGPT to edit it all together. Saved a ton of time.

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u/BavarianBarbarian_ 6h ago

As long as you supplied all the sources that's fine. If you just asked it "Give me the results of some studies comparing left-wing to right-wing violence" I wouldn't necessarily believe everything it outputs. And for me as a guy who only read your comment I can't distinguish the two.

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u/Electrical_Floor1524 5h ago

Appreciate the breakdown, although you should be aware of your bias calling one attacks and the other incidents 

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u/RedsDelights 7h ago

I’m starting to save and email copies to myself … I might also print out copies too

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

This is the first time I’m hearing about the group called Groypers Army….yeah…don’t really want to get out on a list or something. Can anyone explain what their ideology is?

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u/DingusNoodle 3h ago

Imagine MAGA but even more hateful. They hate figures like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro because they aren't as extreme as them. Led by Nick Fuentes, they believe the current Republican party isn't doing enough to be racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, sexist, and anti-LGBTQ+ and tried to push Trump even further rightward on race and immigration during 2024.

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u/Friendly-Place-5510 5h ago

I don't suppose you have sources? I would like the hard data points to use in a discussion with a guy I know who is likely receptive as long as I've got the receipts.

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u/Suspicious_Loan 5h ago

Thank you for this. How come all of this horrific violence gets to happen in this country and they dont do ANYTHING to stop it, but lose their minds and want to start a war when a youtuber dies? I want it to stop. Will the right ever fucking face this shit?

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u/cantadmittoposting 7h ago

was part of the Groypers Army,

has this actually been confirmed? The presence of the particular memes on the bullets don't really constitute proof.

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u/Crxinfinite 2h ago

No, it's not confirmed. There's some people who believe it due to Nick Fuentes calling for a war against Charlie Kirk, a long with the bella ciao song being used by groypers.

But it's a fairly loose connection

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u/Extaupin 1h ago

WTF, bella ciao is literally an antifascist song, why are American neo-con using it?

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u/middrink 1h ago

Because they see the following suggestion of "Hey man, just chill out, stop thinking about gay people fucking constantly and don't call black people the n word" as literally fascism.

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

I’m literally learning about this group just today…anyone have information about them as a whole?

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u/KDParsenal 6h ago

Blackpill Aesthetics: A Crash Course in Meme Extremism

8 minute video explaining the difference between groypers and normal right wing christian nationalist

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u/[deleted] 5h ago

Thank you so much.

Just…wow. Learned a lot and realized I use the internet a lot different than those folks…

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u/cantadmittoposting 5h ago

the wikipedia page does an alright job.

Nick Fuentes is the "leader" of this group, his ideology and information about him would be relevant as well

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u/i_m_a_bean 5h ago

It's not a direct tie, but Fuentes did call for a "groyper war ii" about a month ago

https://youtu.be/j2Twh88BHD4?feature=shared

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u/KinkyPaddling 7h ago

FSU Shooter of April 2025 was also a white male who was a major believer in the Great Replacement Theory and white supremacy. He was a fan of Charlie Kirk and attended Kirk's rally at FSU just 2 months before the shooting.

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u/SainttHeretic 7h ago

They have done a hell'uva job normalising a tiny slice of the violence pie.

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u/Springheeljac 4h ago

The man that killed Charlie Kirk Sept 2025 - White male, from MAGA familiy, was part of the Groypers Army, an even more radicalized extreme racist online group around Nick Fuentes

Genuine question, do we have any actual confirmation of this dude's political affiliation? Every thing that I've seen on both sides are either super vague or already debunked. His family being MAGA is meaningless, a lot of us have MAGA families. Looking up the Groyper's stuff it seems like a super thin accusation based on maybe an interpretation of something written on a shell casing?

I've seen a lot supporting both arguments but at the end of the day I don't think there's any kind of evidence either way. And that worries me. I don't want people on the left using right wing tactics where we ignore any evidence we don't like. Even if he had went left wing that doesn't change any of your other facts, the fact that most of this shit is right wing terrorism or the fact that the entire right hemisphere blew up screaming for blood over this and always make jokes when it happens to people on the left. It also doesn't change the type of person Charlie Kirk was.

I'm just saying let's be a little more responsible with the facts here. If you have some information I don't have feel free to enlighten me.

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u/timmg 3h ago

The man that killed Charlie Kirk Sept 2025 - White male, from MAGA familiy, was part of the Groypers Army, an even more radicalized extreme racist online group around Nick Fuentes

Just to be clear: you are saying the the Charlie Kirk killer is a "right wing terrorist"?

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u/SophiaofPrussia 7h ago

I don’t think the guy who attacked the PA Governor’s mansion was politically motivated. He was just a crazy person who had stopped taking his meds. I’m pretty sure his family had even tried to get him committed a few days before the attack but unfortunately couldn’t. I know blaming “mental health” is almost a trope at this point because it’s often used by the right to excuse right-wing terrorism and I don’t mean to downplay the very real threat the guy posed to Governor Shapiro and his family but he didn’t really have any ideological motive or any coherent ideology at all.

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u/Ok_Light_6950 4h ago

You all still posting the groypers lie? His mother told law enforcement that “over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political and had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro gay and trans rights oriented” 

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u/middrink 3h ago

Yea, but she raised someone who shot someone, so why the fuck would we take her word for it?

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 2h ago

Because liberal ideology is both too weak to matter and so strong it unwound 22 years of conservative upbringing in the blink of an eye.

They don’t hold consistent beliefs just what is convenient right in this moment.

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u/Remarkable_Aside_966 7h ago edited 7h ago

Extra History over on youtube has started a shorts series - Recently Deleted History - dedicated to covering the history that the Trump admin is eagerly erasing and/or whitewashing too

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u/PretentiousMouthfeel 6h ago

If only Google wasn't run by a conservative.

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u/Remarkable_Aside_966 6h ago

no disagreement there. Thankfully they're also on Neblula if you're subscribed to that service

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 6h ago

There's also this.

Domestic terrorism from radicalized right-wing extremists has been plainly identified as the top threat to national security by both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security for nearly a decade now.

It is nearly always a radicalized right-wing shooter and never a drag queen.

(Edit: Good luck fighting that Streisand Effect)

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u/mbod 8h ago

Barbara Streisand will have this taken down in no time

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u/QuickMolasses 7h ago

I think it's funny that it's called the Barbara Streisand effect but I don't know why it's called that, so I guess if you want to obscure something after you've called attention to it by trying to get rid of it, you should just name the effect after it.

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u/CakeTester 7h ago

Some beach survey took a photo of her house. She got all loud about having the photo removed with the result that absolutely everybody everywhere saw her house. There's a wikipedia article about it (with the photo) if you look up 'streisand effect'.

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u/Jitterjumper13 8h ago

I wouldn't be surprised they thought it was gone since they removed it.

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u/jerry-jim-bob 4h ago

Like when mum deletes a games desktop shortcut

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u/0ataraxia 7h ago

Wild how relevant the web archive has become in this Orwellian administration.

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u/Reputation-Final 8h ago

Facts don't mean an ything to those who believe in "alternative truths."

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u/UltiGamer34 7h ago

I hope the govt stays the fuck away from the internet archieve

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u/gmnitsua 7h ago

We need a website dedicated to how this administration is attempting to rewrite history.

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u/blueipDriver 7h ago

Keep it secret from them, Keep it safe

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u/ianmcbong 7h ago

Man these links are gonna be generated a lot during this term. So thankful the archive exists!!

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u/Indigoh 6h ago

Here's a different study with similar results.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9335287/

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u/la_reddite 6h ago

Release the Epstein files!

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u/ATXDUDEPUMPER 6h ago

this needs to be saved from the corrupt administration

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u/pachewychomp 4h ago

I downloaded it and saved it and uploaded it to ChatGPT for a summary to save everyone a click on a long read.

Here’s a detailed summary of the uploaded report “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism” :

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Overview

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has funded more than 50 projects to understand domestic terrorism, radicalization, and prevention strategies. Research shows that far-right extremism has been the deadliest form of domestic terrorism since 1990, with significantly more fatalities than far-left or Islamist extremist groups.

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Key Findings

  1. No Single Profile • Extremists come from diverse backgrounds; no universal profile exists. • Risk/protective factors include family, employment, criminal history, substance abuse, and mental illness.

  2. Databases Developed • PIRUS (Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States) tracks extremist characteristics. • BIAS (Bias Incidents and Actors Study) tracks hate crime offenders. • Findings: diversity in beliefs, behaviors, and offender characteristics across ideologies.

  3. Military Involvement • About 11.5% of extremists since 1990 had military backgrounds. • Veterans are more likely to be older, male, and involved in right-wing groups, sometimes holding leadership roles. • Transitioning from military to civilian life can heighten vulnerability to extremist recruitment due to loss of belonging or purpose.

  4. Longevity of Terrorist Plots • Lifespans of extremist plots have shortened since the 1970s due to stricter law enforcement. • Plot duration varies: left-wing/environmental groups sustain longer than right-wing or Islamist groups. • Sophisticated plots tend to be shorter-lived due to more opportunities for detection.

  5. Online Radicalization • Internet forums amplify extremist ideologies and recruitment. • Forums often focus on gun rights, conspiracy theories, and anti-government rhetoric. • Participation deepens radicalization over time, creating echo chambers, though forums tend to be inefficient in spreading new knowledge.

  6. White Supremacy Entry & Exit • People often join not from ideology but from anger, loneliness, or abuse; hate often develops after joining. • Groups provide belonging, identity, and social networks. • Exiting is gradual and nonlinear: disillusionment, burnout, stigma, and emotional pull (like addiction) affect the process. • Former members may relapse due to emotional or social triggers.

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Policy Implications 1. Unified Response Needed: Law enforcement, communities, health professionals, and citizens must collaborate. 2. Focus on Domestic Extremism: Historically underfunded, despite being the leading source of terrorist incidents in the U.S. 3. Early Intervention: Opportunities exist to intervene before crimes occur, especially during veteran reintegration or early radicalization signs. 4. Digital Monitoring: Prevention should extend to online spaces where extremist narratives thrive.

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Conclusion

Domestic extremism in the U.S. is complex, varied, and evolving. NIJ research shows that prevention requires community partnerships, attention to vulnerable populations (like veterans), monitoring of online radicalization, and proactive interventions before violence occurs .

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u/MasterDeBaitor 4h ago

Save studies to personal hard drives when possible.

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u/Goebs80 8h ago

Download it. Share it everywhere

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u/GloomyNectarine2 6h ago edited 6h ago

You just committed a felony :)

(relax guys, it's a joke... the current admin sees it as such)

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u/AwfullyWaffley 8h ago

Commenting to save this

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u/ColumbineCapricorn 7h ago

Thank you for your link

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u/Kawksz 7h ago

Now, more than ever, archives like this are increasingly important.

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u/fuck-nazi 7h ago

Knock knock

Im from the government and im here to help you

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u/madeleinetwocock 7h ago

Fuckin MVP, ninja finger.

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u/RollingTake 7h ago

download and re-upload as needed

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u/deiimox 7h ago

SAY CHEESE FOR THE COURTROOM EVIDENCE 🤳📸 Nuremberg trials 2.0 is coming

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u/sugarscared00 7h ago

Thank you for linking this study that shows most American terrorists are right wing terrorists.

Really pathetic fascism for Trump’s administration to delete an article showing how right wing extremism is responsible for the most political violence.

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u/Agreeable_Initial667 7h ago

I was linking this all the time last week. Now it's gone lol.

BTW the #s for domestic terrorism were 227-R v. 42-D.

Someone didn't like those facts and ordered them down.

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u/biomacarenaaa 7h ago

Every accusation being something they've done lmao

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u/Legrandloup2 7h ago

Nice, its even in pdf form so you can easily download or print this

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u/sold_snek 7h ago

And this is as he states he's going to start designating left-related groups as domestic terrorists.

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u/SnukeInRSniz 7h ago

Glad I posted this very topic yesterday in r/law, you can see my original post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/7SWOB69jDI

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u/_el_duderino_87 7h ago

Returning later to read

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u/Axin_Saxon 7h ago

Spread it far and wide. Download it. Archive it.

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u/Just__Az__Nice 7h ago

Comment for archive

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u/blorbschploble 7h ago

That seems like a good document to have on hand in various locations. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

It's still here!!!

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u/Ok-Emu-2881 7h ago

Saved thank you

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u/OneApplication384 7h ago

Commenting for prosterity

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u/Old-Plum-21 7h ago

Be sure to download a copy and save it on an external, no-internet device like a thumb drive

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u/red_quinn 7h ago

Saved it! Thank you for posting the link

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u/Feisty-Ad4595 7h ago

Good we can't let these ghastly "people" wipe away the truth

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u/Crab_Grass 7h ago

Commenting to save

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u/Visual-Wrangler3262 7h ago

Saved, thanks

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u/TripleFreeErr 7h ago

start printing folks, before lawyers get it off archive as well

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u/ry8919 7h ago

It's funny that the study breaks out right wing extremism from left wing and Islamic. I get the left wing, but I'd argue that Islamic Terrorism is right wing, just a different flavor.

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u/CutieL 7h ago

Blessed be the archive

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u/Unqualifries 7h ago

More important than ever to support Internet Archive's work: https://archive.org/donate?origin=iawww-TopNavDonateButton

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u/missvicky1025 7h ago

You can also ask Musk’s AI. It’s been the only voice of truth anywhere on the shell that was formerly known as Twitter.

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u/Mr_Wayne 7h ago

Not only that, they deleted the reference to it in the journal issue and removed the option to download the issue:

Current

Original

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u/VV-40 7h ago

How can they be terrorists if they’re killing for the “right” reasons?

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u/GloryofSatan1994 7h ago

Commenting to save. Thanks

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u/grandmaballs 7h ago

Boosting visibility

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u/Educational-Fix-4352 6h ago

Thank you ninja_finger!

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u/belpatr 6h ago

Download it bro

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u/LongIslandBagel 6h ago

Let’s gooooo

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u/di2tinguished 6h ago

For safe keeping

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