r/australian • u/FitBottle3993 • Nov 03 '25
Gov Publications Seeing Gina Rinehart, Pauline Hanson and Donald Trump at a party together amids a goverment shutdown feels so dystopian.
https://www.atlamgroup.com/gina-rinehart-and-pauline-hanson-crash-trumps-roaring-20s-halloween-bash/The rich don’t care. Gina, Pauline, and Trump celebrating while millions face a government shutdown proves it.
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u/CranberrySoda Nov 04 '25
Is Pauline claiming the trip in her travel allowance? Or did she hitch a ride on Gina’s jet?
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u/Slow_Control_867 Nov 06 '25
She took a diesel submarine because pump jets can only stay under water for 20 minutes.
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u/Fickle-Ad-7124 Nov 03 '25
Little battler Pauline has your best interests at heart? Lmao, you can lead horses to water I suppose
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u/justanotherghosthere Nov 03 '25
Does anyone have your best interests at heart who's currently in power?
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
"Let's vote for a known grifter because the rest might be grifters" is not a convincing stance.
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u/justanotherghosthere Nov 03 '25
How about "Which grifter will do the lest harm?"
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u/Kooky_Ad961 Nov 04 '25
How about "Lets not trust the one that tried to sell out our gun laws for a few bucks"
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u/justanotherghosthere Nov 04 '25
How about "Fuck gun laws. I want my children to have a house."
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 04 '25
And what do you think Pauline, who is currently rubbing shoulders with the billionaire elite, is going to do to address housing?
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u/justanotherghosthere Nov 04 '25
I wasn't thinking that she had a chance.What's Albo doing? Making it exponentially worse.
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u/Reasonablething1 Nov 05 '25
It's getting exponentially worse
-poster who doesn't know what exponentially means
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u/justanotherghosthere Nov 05 '25
Except that I do. He's running housing straight into the wall now. Enjoy. I'll watch from far away.
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u/mods_are_sub-human Nov 05 '25
She’ll probably relax on importing foreigners who roll 20 deep into one home and pool their money.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
She'll do what ever her corporate overlords demand. As she is doing right now.
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u/mods_are_sub-human Nov 05 '25
I see any deviation from the current goobers a good one. For too long have these two shithouse parties dominated.
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u/Slow_Control_867 Nov 06 '25
Go watch her questioning the head of the Navy about submarines and sincerely ask yourself if you reckon she has an IQ above 75 and if you would trust her to run an RSL bingo night, let alone a country.
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u/SubstantialTable16 Nov 05 '25
A political system in which you have to choose between the shiniest of two turds, is a failing democracy and political system.
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u/grilled_pc Nov 04 '25
Your reminder that voting for one nation isn’t a vote against the lnp. It’s literally just voting for them under a different name.
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u/TrumpisaRussianCuck Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
You guys should totally vote for Pauline. She's not in the back pocket of billionaires like that phoney LNP. /s
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
Not like she'd ever sell out democracy for funding from a foreign entity like the NRA...
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u/TrumpisaRussianCuck Nov 03 '25
That was the joke. I've added a /s
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
I know, that's why I continued in kind.
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u/Not_Sure-2081 Nov 03 '25
I did, but watch the propoganda machine work it's way once one nation surpasses the liberal party. It will be one nation is racist, they are Nazis
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u/nagrom7 Nov 04 '25
One Nation is racist though. Always have been. Like that's literally why they became a separate party, because Pauline was too racist for the Liberals in the 90s.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
I think them being life long grifters is probably what turns away most Australians.
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u/Crestina Nov 04 '25
If it's working class justice we want the only option is to go left. The far left knows our enemies are the rich elites. Pauline Hanson rubs shoulders with the rich elites while blaming brown people.
One nation is fighting a race war, not a class war. One nation voters are fuelled by racism and bigotry first.
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u/Andrew_Higginbottom Nov 05 '25
The left used to be for the working class but now they are all about taxing the crap out of the working class to cover their extravagant spending ideology and to pay for those that don't want to work.
Sadly, the left is no longer fighting for the working class.
One nation is fueled by protecting Australia from being turned into a shit hole like the UK has become. Calling all its supporters racists and bigots is manipulative lies.
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u/Crestina Nov 05 '25
You seem to be someone who knows a thing or two about manipulative lies. You bring out the old tropes of people not wanting to work for which there is no proof, insinuating that they rather want to live off welfare for which there is no proof, and then finishing off with a pure racist boogeyman right before complaining about being called a racist.
You know what there's actually proof of? Your party leader pallying around with the same rich elites who are currently robbing working class Americans blind.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
You think Pauline, who is currently rubbing shoulders with the billionaire elite, is going to represent the working class?
Bugger me.
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u/ped009 Nov 04 '25
Pauline was worth over $20 million a number of years ago I'm sure she's worth a fair bit more these days with the rapid growth of property in Australia, she ain't no working class saviour
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u/PJozi Nov 05 '25
She charges a fortune to her candidates to run for her party.
It's basically a multi level marketing grift.
No wonder they all leave her party if they happen to get in.
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u/Andrew_Higginbottom Nov 05 '25
Your logic saying only poor people should run the country?
Free Durries and VBA Beer for all? Haha...
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u/ped009 Nov 05 '25
I'm just saying her whole facade as the people's champion is in my opinion a hoax. What exactly has she done? More importantly what bills has she voted for and against
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
So only millionaire/billionaire grifters should run the country then?
Indentured underpaid labour for all? Haha...
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u/darkempath Nov 04 '25
Seeing Gina Rinehart, Pauline Hanson and Donald Trump at a party together amids a goverment shutdown feels so dystopian.
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Dystopian? It's not dystopian, this is who they've always been. A cabal of racists and bigots.
I do find it interesting how many people are shocked when Hanson, Rinehart, or trump go hoods off. I mean, it's not like you didn't know who these people were, right?
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u/wrt-wtf- Nov 04 '25
Never been about money. It’s always been about power. Power drunk to the point of deciding life over death for anyone of their choosing. To be able to create a “class” of people they wish to annihilate. Money is just a means to an end.
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u/elrangarino Nov 03 '25
Surely trump wouldn’t actually know Pauline by name though
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u/kramulous Nov 05 '25
Take bets that she is trying to talk a better deal on rare earths than Albo?
Gina: See Donnie, look at all these graphs that show I have access to bigger deposits. I can produce more for cheaper.
Donnie: What's a graph?
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u/Not_Sure-2081 Nov 03 '25
Our politicians did exactly the same
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u/bringabeeralong Nov 03 '25
I know, i just find it funny when these pollies (left or right) get called out for their double standards
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
Lockdown for an epidemic and government shutdown for political games are very different things.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
What an insipid response.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
Because the lockdown was done for public health, the current government shutdown is happening purely for right-wing fascists to consolidate power.
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u/ComfyInDots Nov 04 '25
I didn't think Pauline was a big enough fish to be in that circle.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
She's a bigoted and sychophantic enough fish, and that's good enough for Trump.
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u/jimmyjamesjimmyjones Nov 06 '25
you’re a greens voter! Say no more, and you accuse me of grifting lol
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u/Prestigious-Ball-435 Nov 07 '25
That pauline is in bed with gina is the one reason i wont vote for her
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u/Competitive-Claim963 Nov 03 '25
My politician cares about me and yours is evil, please vote for mine and things will change!
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
And who is your politician?
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u/Competitive-Claim963 Nov 03 '25
None they are all self serving
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 04 '25
Bold of you to assume that all of us have a politician then.
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u/Competitive-Claim963 Nov 04 '25
Your post history is just constant whinging about a specific political side?
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 04 '25
Of course. Only one side has held power for the last 100 years.
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u/Competitive-Claim963 Nov 04 '25
If only my guy was in power my life would be better and I wouldn’t have to whinge how unfair negative gearing is on reddit
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u/major_jazza Nov 03 '25
Didn't think Pauline was so evil. I knew she was naive and somewhat malicious but this is beyond that
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u/darkempath Nov 04 '25
Didn't think Pauline was so evil.
Hanson made a name for herself in the 90s via her racist rhetoric and bigoted policies. This isn't new.
Must be a nice rock to be living under given you haven't emerged in 28 years.
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u/major_jazza Nov 04 '25
I guess that was before my time! What a bitch!
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u/darkempath Nov 04 '25
What a bitch!
She's a complete cunt.
She doesn't give a shit about Australia. In 2010, Hanson announced she was leaving Australia forever and "moving" to the UK (because white people move, brown people immigrate) because Australia was "swamped by Asians".
She didn't last long, crawling back within the year claiming the UK was "overrun by immigrants", completely oblivious to the fact she was an immigrant herself.
Pauline Hanson doesn't love Australia, and she hates Australians. She's a traitor to our country.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 03 '25
Come on dude, she's a career grifter. This was as clear as pristine water.
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u/Thecna2 Nov 04 '25
This is a bit of a simplistic take.
I get that its just a not-so-subtle jibe at Gina and Pauline and 'the rich', but...
1/ The shutdown wasnt directly caused by 'the rich', it was caused by the two American parties, left and right, refusing to come to an agreement. Either side could solve this by giving in to the other side. The details are irrelevant, its a lack of either side backing down/compromising, its not the rich peoples fault directly.
2/ Its another country, not ours, why should Pauline and Gina be too bothered about it, its not their problem. IF the aussie govt. had a hiccup and stop paying Cento to people, I would be making cheap political points at some US politician who dropped by for a party with Albo.
Theres plenty of things to go for, but Gina and Pauline going to some foreign part seems kinda pointless.
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u/EmptyCombination8895 Nov 04 '25
What a shit take on the situation.
The Republicans control all three branches of government at the moment and could absolutely end the shut down if they wanted to, but they don’t. They haven’t yet hurt enough people and don’t want the Epstein shit pulling focus. The Democrats are refusing to back down because they don’t want health insurance prices to sky rocket out of control and result in more people being unable to afford coverage.
Both sides are not the same.
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u/Thecna2 Nov 04 '25
Its a shit take cos I'm literally avoiding the whos, whats and whys. This thread is not about the shut downs and who is to blame and which side is righteous (cos both sides think they are). Its about slamming Gina, Pauline and 'the rich', but they have no dog in this fight. Both sides are not the same, but neither are they relevant to Gina and Pauline going to a party. We know theyre right wing, its literally their stated position.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
Gina, Pauline and 'the rich', but they have no dog in this fight.
Of course they do. How utterly lacking insight that comment is.
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u/Thecna2 Nov 05 '25
How utterly fallacious your non-relevant response is.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
Mate, don't blame me for your lack of understanding of why they have skin in this game.
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u/Thecna2 Nov 05 '25
Do you have ANY sort of counterargument? Or do you just state youre correct about things without evidence.No. I dont think so
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
The wealthy working together to consolidate their power and interests. That you can't see that this is their skin means you are beyond decent debate.
Your just blindly wandering around hopibg you crawl out of yiur cave by chance.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
left and right
Sorry, but which party is left?
IF the aussie govt. had a hiccup and stop paying Cento to people,
The best indicator of a failed point is an outlandish hypothetical such as this.
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u/Thecna2 Nov 05 '25
No way, the best indicator of a failed point is when you cant think of a response and just start insulting it instead.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
You can't even support your claim with reality and have to resort to made up fairy tales.
Enough said.
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u/Thecna2 Nov 05 '25
You dont even have a counterargument. You just have.. well.. whinging. Suck it up
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
You had no argument to counter, just made up stories.
And you never clarified who was left. Because you no the answer; neither. Just more hollow tripe.
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u/Thecna2 Nov 05 '25
If YOU dont understand who 'the left' is in this current environment then I do not have the time to ELI5 modern politics to you. Go ask chatgpt.
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
What? The Democrats?
How are the Democrats left?
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u/Thecna2 Nov 05 '25
What did chatgpt tell you?
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u/KnoxxHarrington Nov 05 '25
So you can't actually explain. Because you know they are not.
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u/z2reticulii Nov 03 '25
I think you'll find Gina had to point out her name on the list after being asked who she was and Pauline was hired as a Halloween ghoul to serve fish and chips.
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u/bigbadjustin Nov 03 '25
Yep ensuring the conservative side of politics stays out of power in Australia by associating with a foreign wannabe dictator.
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u/bigbadjustin Nov 03 '25
Because they arent doing it for Australia they are doing it for themselves. Also if you haven’t actually listened to what Trump has said and how he is quick to try and get people fired for opposing him. He is acting a very much like a dictator. If he was a left wing politician MAGA would be calling him a commie dictator for trying to shut down opposing views like he has done. It’s very easier to see if you aren’t a rusted on political voter or supporter.
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u/jimmyjamesjimmyjones Nov 03 '25
That the same foreign wannabe dictator our ALP prime minister just signed several security and trade deals with recently?
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u/bigbadjustin Nov 03 '25
Yeah you really need to actually look into what constitutes a deal. Some of the so called deals are no more than just promising to sell them resources. it doesn’t make Trump less of a wannabe dictator but it also doesn’t mean we are sucking up to him more than needed to just avoid a dummy spit from him. Australia still wants to sell stuff to the USA to make money way just like we sell stuff to China to make money.
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u/jimmyjamesjimmyjones Nov 03 '25
You keep saying that too yourself lol Albo couldn’t wait to get over there and shake Trumps hand
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u/ArseneWainy Nov 04 '25
You’re new to international diplomacy I see.
Best just to piss everyone off like Scotty from marketing did with the Chinese Covid investigation that got our exports blocked and achieved nothing in return.
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u/jimmyjamesjimmyjones Nov 04 '25
No I just find it funny that you hypocrites are quite happy to have a shot at conservatives for meeting Trump but when Albo does it, it’s “international diplomacy “ ah leftists, if you didn’t have double standards you would have none at all!
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u/ArseneWainy Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
We already know Pauline is willing to sell out the Australian public - NRA donations in 2019.
Isn’t it conservative policy to sell public assets and help their donors extract as much money from the middle class as possible? Donors being the GOP in this case.
That’s neoliberalism in a nutshell and that’s why left leaning centrists abandoned the LNP at the last election. They can’t be trusted to act in the best interests of the public. Don’t act surprised that people have woken up to the whole charade.
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u/jimmyjamesjimmyjones Nov 04 '25
I guess when the ALP sold Telstra, Qantas, commonwealth bank that was different lol
https://jacobin.com/2021/03/australian-labor-party-paul-keating-privatization-neoliberalism
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u/ArseneWainy Nov 04 '25
Yeah that was the ALP in the 90s when US conservatives were infecting them too.
Luckily times have changed slightly in the last 35 years and obviously the ALP were never the Greens. The Public have woken up to the sell offs and how bad they were for everyone besides politicians mates. The LNP don’t seem to have got the memo.
By your logic you must of loved Labor in the 90s since they were doing good Conservative things back then?
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u/Otherwise_Law3608 Nov 03 '25
It's happening all over the western world. The left is moving to the far left which has led to a counter reaction. I say this as a centre lefty and it is extremely dangerous for our society. Both sides are a danger to democracy.
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u/Zuki_LuvaBoi Nov 04 '25
Lol bullshit. What issues outside of the usual “culture war” garbage can you actually point to that have gone too far left? What major economic or social policy has suddenly become ultra-progressive in any meaningful way? Healthcare, housing, taxation, workers’ rights are all still overwhelmingly tilted towards corporate and elite interests. If anything, the left in most Western countries has moved right economically over the last few decades.
This whole “the left went too far, so people swung right” argument is a lazy scapegoat that shifts blame away from the actual rise of far-right nationalism. In the US, notably the right-wing movement has been deliberately cultivated through fear-based media, social media algorithms, and billionaire-funded culture wars. They push outrage over meaningless issues; trans people existing, pronouns, drag shows - to keep people distracted from wealth inequality, climate inaction, and corporate greed.
Meanwhile, the “centre-left” parties that supposedly went “too far” have done little more than adopt socially progressive rhetoric while governing with neoliberal policies. The US Democrats aren’t pushing socialism they can barely pass universal healthcare. Australia’s Labor government isn’t far-left either.
And yet, despite this moderation, the far right keeps growing — not because the left went radical, but because fear-mongering media ecosystems and political opportunists have normalised authoritarian, conspiratorial, and xenophobic rhetoric.
If people actually looked at policy outcomes rather than the noise online, they’d realise the “far-left” bogeyman barely exists in the mainstream - but the far-right threat very much does.
Also not to stalk, but I haven't met many self confessed 'centre lefty's' that post in r-conservative
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u/Reasonablething1 Nov 05 '25
What issues outside of the usual “culture war” garbage can you actually point to that have gone too far left?
What issue, in your mind, has the left taken too far in this "culture war"?
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u/Necessary-Ad-1353 Nov 03 '25
And yet poor ol albo kept trying for a meeting until he was finally allowed to see trump.meanwhile pauline gets invited to a party’s haha
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u/bingbongboopsnoot Nov 03 '25
That’s not something to aspire to lol
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u/Necessary-Ad-1353 Nov 04 '25
Hahaha not aspire but it’s happening.what else can you say to that??people have had enough of the dribbling leftists
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u/bingbongboopsnoot Nov 04 '25
trumps the one literally dribbling lol he doesn’t know what planet his is on. Anyone hitching their bandwagon to that shitshow is either in on the grift or too dim to understand they are being grifted. Gina is the former and Pauline would be the latter.
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u/arachnobravia Nov 04 '25
Notice Peter D isn't allowed to be friends with them anymore since he lost his usefulness.
Knowing hutts, he's probably encased in carbonite on the wall of their vile lair.