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Jax Peters Lowell's avatar

Thank you for this, Dick. Hard to accept where were are, but a must-read nonetheless.

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Jeffrey Price's avatar

Re your observation that "Umpteen studies have long concluded that most of the politically motivated (and increasing) violence during the last three decades has been the work of right-wing extremists -- you gotta love that when Musk's Grok reported that most political violence was on the right, he characterized it as a major fail of his AI app and promised to fix it. The man is totally clueless. He should be strapped to the next rocket his SpaceX launches.

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Fred Klappenberger's avatar

Plug this into Google Gemini - "Since 2016, are violent crimes committed more by the right or left in America?" The response may take some time.

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Dick Polman's avatar

Thanks, Fred. Good to “see” you.

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Shawn Towey (she/her)'s avatar

Thanks, Dick. Wish the Inquirer would publish it! FYI, the first Inquirer article about the armed-to-the teeth guy who was fortunately stopped before he could act at the West Chester No Kings rally reported that he was a registered Democrat, thus could not have had right-wing motives. Not so fast, Inky! Now we know more (photo in MAGA hat, home-made bombs at home, etc). Plus, if they read their own newspaper they might know that registrations lag voting patterns.

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