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Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person and a major donor to the Liberal Party, urged the country’s conservatives to stare down the weekend’s election wipe-out and lean in to policies like those of US President Donald Trump.

Rinehart, an ardent and vocal supporter of Trump, issued a lengthy statement Monday morning following Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s historic election win at the weekend. The result saw him achieve a majority in parliament for his center-left Labor Party, while Liberal leader Peter Dutton lost his seat.

In her statement, Rinehart called for Australians to “stay and fight for understanding of the changes Australia needs,” and to look more closely at the “common sense and truth” in the US.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Lifelong Liberal voter here. The moment I heard Dutton channel tRump, was the moment I flipped to a Labour voter. I will never vote Liberal again, and this tunnel cunted, fat whore has just confirmed my decision. Fuck tRump and anybody who sees him in a positive light.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

I love how angry this bitch got about her portrait.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do not interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.

So yes, Australian conservatives should def go full MAGA, then they will die and future elections will be between the neolibs and an actual leftist party.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, we said the same thing about the MAGA idiots, and Trump back in 2016. Thought having Trump on the ticket would make Hillary an easy shoe-in. Turns out they were wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I would have agreed with you up until last week, where the Aussie conservatives (including all MAGA/cooker parties) had their greatest defeat since the 1940's.

Australia is definitely not immune, but the best defence against fascism appears to be the consequences of fascism. Thanks America! Now fix your shithole cuntry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Australia has compulsory voting, parties with only minority support can't win by suppressing turnout.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

The US has a party that promotes voting and voting rights, and alas another which does everything possible to prevent voting.

[–] Arkouda -2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not every country has an illiteracy rate of 75%, so it isn't a shock that US citizens were wrong about something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's that attitude of "it can't happen here" that will get you into trouble. You need to remain vigilant.

[–] Arkouda 0 points 2 days ago

I was pointing out why they were wrong, not that it cannot happen elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We actively encourage kids to enter the work force at 15 nationally so I wouldn't be overtly confident about the status quo in Australia.

[–] Arkouda -2 points 2 days ago

I was in the workforce at the age of 10 and can read at a post secondary level so I am unsure what this has to do with literacy rates.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Dude, pretty much every person in the U.S. can read. You have the statistic backward, 70% of people have an at or above average literacy rate.

Edit: Besides, it's not reading that got us Trump, it's billionaires and Fox News. Russia, China, and any other not friendly country to the U.S. disinformation campaigns have been rampant for a decade or more now.

[–] Arkouda 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

21% of the country is clinically illiterate. In the remaining 79%, 54% read at or below a 6th grade level. This means that about 75% of US adults are functionally or clinically illiterate.

This impacts their ability to think critically because they cannot comprehend the "facts" they are told to read because the language is above that of a 6th grader allowing propaganda to flourish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I just looked up the numbers Wednesday, in a similar question comparing US to Canada. You are squarely in the middle of the error bars with your numbers, alas, speaking as one USian who is actually able to read and comprehend.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

On the bright side, she's probably the most hated person in Australia

Let them do what she says. It will destroy them

She's still bitter because of this

She's still bitter because of this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tell me more. What do I Google?

Edit: found a Time article. Awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The Guardian has been all over it

It's a really good source of news in general, but particularly good for Australian stuff

Also ABC news

And an outfit called SBS

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

That thing will be around long after she's gone, and, I hope, will show up on the first page of search results every time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gina, you're a woman (apparently), and in Trump's world order, women are second-class citizens who should keep their mouths shut. As a fan of his policies, therefore, you should do just that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

She kinda resembles ginni Thomas

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I recommend you remove any criminal like Trump from running and place him in jail where he belongs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's the fun part cause the people who seek power don't deserve it. Bring on the global anarchist revolution!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

This cunt needs to fuck right off with the rest of the rich nepo billionaire babies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Broke American MisterNeon Urges Australians to Embrace keeping that garbage out of your continent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I think the election showed that most Aussies are sick of the constant slide to the right wing of politics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t Trump one of the reasons the Liberal party got creamed? Not that I expect her to realize or accept it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

PP of Canada is using the same words verbatim when he lost, getting their script from ruzzia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Huh, they were always assholes, but now they really want to make being an asshole in public acceptable again…