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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Krodoski.

Happy Thursday, everybody.

I hope that you all enjoy, I want to say enjoyed, but found the episode on Monday.

Intriguing and informative on political violence.

I have to tell you that I approached that episode, thinking that I was going to

break down like all the data on political violence over the last 20 years. And I got way over my

skis. And I ended up, I think, presenting you guys with a lot of information, but I wanted to

show you everything. And it was just way too much.

But I think one thing that I would like to touch on one more time before I go into Ask Me Anything for the episode was really how these nonprofits are manipulating information in order to make you have the opinion, that right-wing

violence is larger than what it is. So I went through the ADL, the anti-defamation

leagues data and the University of Cincinnati's information to see examples that they had of right-wing violence, right? So the ADL,

which was only looking at homicides, did not include Luigi Mangione as a case of left-wing

violence, which is pretty insane, considering it is one of the largest. They also didn't include

the transgender

cold Zizian, as I mentioned. They included any case where somebody who had formerly

belonged to some kind of neo-Nazi or white nationalist prison gang committing any sort of

homicidal act post their release as a case of right-wing violence. So a New Hampshire

man who shot his younger half-brother after the half-brother had informed the police that he had

shot a random house where no one was injured and nobody was killed. He killed that half-brother

who, you know, informed the police.

The ADL lists that as a case of right-wing extremism. A sex offender with a lengthy criminal

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