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Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by lj3 on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:14PM (#15102664)
> In other words, it was a mirror-image of the US.

No, that's exactly like the US. Has been since the 60s. Or do I have to whip out the statistics on left wing bombings in the 60s and 70s? Or the number of antifa on trial for assault in the past year alone?

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Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by ucaetano on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:43PM (#15103144)
> Has been since the 60s. Or do I have to whip out the statistics

No need to, I'll do it for you (oh, and this is from the Cato institute, so if there's any bias, it is pro-right):

https://www.cato.org/blog/terrorism-deaths-ideology-charlott...

Terrorists have murdered 3,342 people on U.S. soil from 1992 through August 12, 2017:

Right-wing: 219 deaths

Left-wing: 23 deaths

Ouch.

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Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by lj3 on Friday August 25, 2017 @08:16PM (#15103310)
> Sources: Global Terrorism Database at the University of Maryland, RAND Corporation, ESRI, and author’s calculations.

Nice try.

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Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by ucaetano on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:26AM (#15104209)
I'm waiting for your sources.

Let me guess: you won't provide any.

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