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Main Findings

  • Overall, 71% of all respondents, both globally and in the five countries, reported having experienced violence from the public, whether online, offline or both.
  • Violence is heavily concentrated online, with between 65% and 77% of MPs in the five countries reporting online abuse.
  • The most common forms of public intimidation overall reported by MPs are insults and degrading language, the spread of false or misleading information, and threats.
  • Most respondents believe that the situation is deteriorating. In Argentina and the Netherlands, 8 out of 10 MPs reported an increase in violence over the past five years.
  • Online violence is frequently triggered by elections, high-profile legislative debates or polarizing political or cultural issues.
  • Women are more affected than men: 76% of women MPs across the case studies reported exposure to violence, compared to 68% of men.
  • Women are disproportionately affected by gendered and sexualized forms of violence, especially online.
  • MPs who belong to minority or disadvantaged groups – including racial minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQIA+ communities – face even greater exposure to online violence.

When the public turns hostile: Political violence against parliamentarians

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Which will "justify" martial-law, totalitarianism, & rampaging-exterminations, like what Iran's currently-doing to the people it ought be serving,

like Netanyahu's "Israel" is doing to Palestinians,

like Putin's "Russia" is doing to Ukraina AND to Russian-people,

like what Tianamen Square was,

like Trump's ICEing of Democrat states,

WHEN the tippingpoint is crossed, THEN civilrights will be ONLY charade, globally, & the right will .. pretty-much OWN the world.

as predicted by Haich, actually..

( Elisabeth Haich stated in the mid-1900's ( my phrasing, not hers ) that every Punctuation-time between Equilibrium-times,

aka every break between Earth's-gyroscopic-axis precessing through an Age into another Age, as is happening now, from Pisces to Aquarius,

..there is a hard-right turn.

The later in a world's cycle, the more-violent that Punctuation is.

This particular Punctuation's the final survivable one, for our world, btw.

So, the hard-right-turn's STRONG.

To me it's looking like there are about 8:1..15:1 of people on the planet in the totalitarianism:civilrights ratio, when push comes to shove..

The ONLY hope the civilrights & LivingSpirit loyal people now have, given the geopolitical-actuality & eentrenched-corruption/oligarchy, is the Venn-diagram-intersection of:

  1. TOTAL loyalty to integrity
  2. TOTAL objectivity & objective-pragmatism
  3. TOTAL self-honesty
  4. TOTAL proactivity
  5. .. & some Chakravartin-level leader: no mere-mundane leader's good-enough, now, BY FAR.

( yeah, actual-Venn-diagrams only have 3 circles, so make this one hyperdimensional, then, & use 3D-spheres, instead.

d :

: )

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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fear leads people to do stupid evil shit

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stupid is good. Stupid can be exploited. Evil is unfortunate, but part of the human condition. We must destroy it, by taking advantage of it whenever it tries to do stupid evil shit. If they do stupid evil shit (and they probably will) we will destroy them. There is no other option. Appeasement does not work. Tolerance does not work. Concessions do not work. When it comes to evil, only total victory is worth pursuing. I am a militant pacifist, I will fight all evil until we can have some peace from it. But evil is eternal, and the cost of freedom and peace is eternal vigilance.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

If the approach is just "look for evil people and then destroy them", or "if politicians piss the people off, and they'll come for their head", it's likely to produce more evil through the fear that it creates. A good political system is predictable – politicians should know that if they do evil (clearly defined in law), it will become public, and it will have consequences (again, clearly defined in law). This should also apply to all powerful people, not just politicians.

At the end of the day, the goal is to control and counteract certain ambitions, not to create fear.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When the people start going hungry, the rich and powerful inevitably end up on the menu.

[–] Beep@lemmus.org 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago

Chef special menu

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately these statistics include lawmakers that are standing up to the powerful.

I imagine a lot of this violence is directed towards those who oppose the powerful, rather than those who are in support of them / already powerful

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago
[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe stop sucking that corporate dick and start representing your constituents?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most of them are rich-- they were born with dicks in their mouths, I dont think many of them even know its there. They just know they do whatever their donors and the zionists tell them to do. Its like gravity.

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

See, I'm a humanist, I believe they could all do better. They're garbage people who deserve this and more.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Well, yeah. They didn't fear us, so they leaned into corruption. Now they realize that they've gone too far, and they'll be LUCKY to only get a long prison sentence, and that will be in the best of circumstances. If things get really ugly, they'll wish for a long drop at the end of a rope.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This seems like a very loose definition of "violence."

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Keep your insults and degrading language to yourself, you'll upset the elites.

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

Injuries include bruised egos and hurt feelings

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I’d also be interested in whether those politicians embraced the violent rhetoric of “misleading information.”

[–] DevotedShitStain69@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean they either listen to our legal system, or they'll face street justice. It's that simple and all they have to do is choose, and it seems like they're choosing the latter.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago

It didn't have to be this way - the wealthy chose this option. This is on them.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Because lawmakers got a bit out of hand lately.

[–] Valthorn@feddit.nu 14 points 3 days ago
[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

They shouldn’t have a moment of tranquility outside of their homes, and if they can’t have a moment of tranquility in their homes, meh. Fuck ‘em. Let them quit their jobs.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Not enough.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

They're bringing it upon themselves.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

They'd better be on their best behavior then, eh?

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Easy solution: Disable replies and keep your private and buisness live seperated.

But as the study data shows most politicians are over 50 and likely don't even know how to open a PDF...

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

You think a 50 year old can't open a pdf? Are you 12?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

We should really be setting up guillotines outside of political events. Just for show of course! All in good fun!