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Record number of threats against MPs reported to federal police in Australia

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2 ups, 2y,
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Yes. That tends to Hpplen when you become a totalitarian state.
0 ups, 2y,
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Yet in the US, there were more than 9,600 recorded threats against members of Congress in 2021...

https://time.com/6227754/political-violence-us-states-midterms-2022/

But the population of the US is nearly 13 times higher.
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Is that more or less than usual? Congress in the US hit single digit approval ratings at one point last year.
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And with your statement of the US congress being single digit at one point last year, the lowest the congress approval rating ever reached in 2022 was 16% which was back in June 2022. Yet the last time the US had its congress at single digits was November 2013 which was at 9% when Obama was president.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx
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Updated because I miscalculated...

I wasn't surprised the US had a high amount of threats against member of congress considering the fascist population of the US is much higher than Australia.

A total of 46% of the Republican supporters are Faith and Flag, and Populist which have links to Far-Right movements.

With 28% of Americans are Republican, Calculating 28% ÷ 100 x 46%, that would mean that 12.88% of Americans are fascist or leaning towards Fascism

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/the-republican-coalition/
https://news.gallup.com/poll/388781/political-party-preferences-shifted-greatly-during-2021.aspx

Meanwhile Australia has far less of a fascist problem with only 5% of Australians voting for One Nation and some of the 4.1% of UAP voters being fascist.

I reckon its only 1,000,000 Australians who are Far-Right compared to more than 42,000,000 American Fascists.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2022/results/party-totals
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No sorry. Being Fath and Flag and Populist has nothing to do with Fascism or Alt-Right movements like the skin heads or Nazi's (which are really far left with total government control). Having a religion and believing your country is good does not equal fascism.
Your premise is wrong. Also use per capita. The populations in these countries are vastly different.
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Maybe so, but look at this data I have found... at least 20% of GOP members of Faith and Flag and Populist are indeed related to Fascism or even Neo-Fascism
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You don't seem to understand what "very conservative" means. It doesn't mean neo nazi fascist. It means they conserve traditional Christian values, which doesn't care one bit about race.
0 ups, 2y
Some are fascist some are just plain right wingers like Ben Shapiro who is a critic of the alt-right.

While we're at it, there was a study saying that 24 million Americans have Alt-Right beliefs, and that was back in 2018. It'll probably be much higher the Alt-Right population

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/study-24-million-white-americans-have-alt-right-beliefs.html

But still, 24 million is a whole lot higher than 1 million, and 24 million Alt-Right Americans is nearly just as high as the entire Australian population
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1 up, 2y
Crikey indeed, a record that an average Australian doesn't want to hear but have to know about
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