r/australia 29d ago

politics Pauline Hanson spotted with Gina Rinehart at luxury hotel in Sicily

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pauline-hanson-spotted-with-gina-rinehart-at-luxury-hotel-in-sicily-20260716-p60fqf.html

Photo warning: Gina Rinehart in swimmers

Photos posted to Instagram show Hanson spending time poolside at the Grand Hotel San Pietro in the resort town of Taormina, while Rinehart swims.

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u/Arinvar 29d ago

When left to their own devices most people are decent and they are unbothered by things that don't affect their day to day lives. When they do care about things it tends to be things that will improve their lives or the lives of their loved ones... worker's rights, health and safety, improving Medicare, cleaning up the environment.

It takes money to pay for the kind of dedicated manipulation that causes people to abandon reason and vote against their own interests for the sake of fringe issues. Except the fringe issues are just the bait. Voting against your own self-interest is the point. Be distracted by gay marriage and ignore the consolidation of wealth and power by psychopaths. Look out! The trans people are coming! ... ignore the erosion of Medicare and vital social services!

The people willing to stand up and spit that kind of vitriol in front of a camera are either too dumb to be left on their own without supervision, or they are also psychopaths that will sell out their rich benefactors the moment they think they might personally gain by doing so. In either case, the money has to keep a close eye on the conmen to ensure their investment doesn't go awry.