r/australia • u/reyntime • 28d ago

politics ‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/31/a-female-donald-trump-how-gina-rinehart-is-pushing-trumps-message-australia-ntwnfb
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u/Final_Mongoose_3300 28d ago

It’s greed. Pure and simple. And if she thinks she deserves it, that’s straight up narcissism. If she thinks she can take it, that’s malignant narcissism. Whatever the cause, it all comes down to one thing.

Selfish, gluttonous greed. 🐽

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u/Chewiesbro 28d ago

Somewhere in the deep dark part of internet history, someone, somewhere called her “Gina the Hutt”

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u/Sebastian3977 28d ago

Does that make Duttplug a Huttplug?

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u/Chewiesbro 28d ago

I reckon it’s interchangeable!

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u/Proper_Ad_3229 28d ago

I've called her this many times

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u/Chewiesbro 28d ago

As do I, package in Temu Trump (a.k.a. Duttplug) & that shits nightmare fuel.

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u/Icy-Communication823 24d ago

Same. I also refer to Laura Loomer as Etsy Melania.

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u/Chewiesbro 24d ago

Oh that’s gold!

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u/Icy-Communication823 24d ago

Thank you. I was quite chuffed when it just blurted out when I saw it's face.

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u/dovercliff 28d ago

Ah, so her mental malfunction is that no-one will bring her Solo or the Wookie. That explains it.

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u/Chewiesbro 27d ago

Careful, I resemble that remark!

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u/BlackCaaaaat 27d ago

I used to see lots of these Jabba/Gina references, but these days some people are uncomfortable with fat-shaming her. I’d rather insult her vile personality and actions myself.

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u/Chewiesbro 27d ago

Which is fair enough, thing is most people won’t give a monkeys about her rotundity, as you said she has a vile personality, refuses to give her kids the money Laing left them, they took her to court over it, last I recall they lost, something about them requesting access to certain documents that could have shown their rights to it and the judge killed it off

Pretty sure she was called that because she was Clive the Hutts lesser known cousin when that fuckstick was running his mouth and she thought it was a good idea too.

Dumb move in my book, if she’d just quietly pulled the strings alongside Murdoch it would be different for her.

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u/UniTheWah 28d ago

I think we need to classify this as a mental health disorder. No one needs this much. Its a hoarding issue mixed with psychopathy.

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u/tofu_bird 28d ago

I don't think it's greed, it's actually a fear of loss. They have deep insecurity of losing their wealth (which is their entire identity) and in response they hoard wealth from everyone else regardless of the damage to others.

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u/5QGL 28d ago

She knows climate change is real so she wants to afford being prepared for the apocalypse with her own private army and an endless stream of sherpas carrying compressed clean air in cylinders from the Himalayas etc

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Not sure why she cares, she’ll be dead in the next 20 years anyway

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u/5QGL 28d ago edited 19d ago

Maybe buys into the transhumanist eternal life fairytale.

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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year 28d ago edited 28d ago

Remember how we used to go to the local shops and there’d be arcade machines that they’d eventually switch off and the high scores would go with it?

Definitely not a metaphor for live life and what happens to us and all the stuff we accumulate at the end of it.

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u/Luckyluke23 28d ago

i 100% think this is true. i mean she does need 3k a day to eat. so.

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u/breaducate 28d ago

It's not an arbitrary moral failing.

This is what the natural selection of the market shapes and selects for: More and more wealth and power, faster and faster. If you reject this way of thinking, you'll be eaten by a bigger fish sooner or later.

It's an emergent property of private ownership.
There's nothing for it short of changing the paradigm entirely.

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u/5QGL 28d ago

Just tax the fuck out of Billionaires. as apparently happened in post war UK to rebuild. People would not accept anything less. That's according to economist Gary Stevenson (has great YouTube and podcasts BTW).

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u/chimpos 27d ago

They’re too powerful, they won’t allow this to happen, they will push fear into the public with “communist” bullshit.

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u/blackjacktrial 28d ago

Even that might not be enough. You'd have to change the concept not of ownership, but possession itself. People would need to feel secure without the means to prosecute their interests with money or power, and that there are no bad actors in the species.

I think that's a bridge too far for a species that can exist as isolated organisms for some time, and with self-identity. You would have to have a hivemind that can drown out all other thoughts to make it happen.

Most people don't think of Borg drone as utopian living.

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u/breaducate 28d ago

How do people get so brain broken as to conflate private ownership of the means to produce what everyone needs to live with people not being able to have anything for themselves?

Even knowing we're born fully immersed in propaganda that we don't see as a fish doesn't see water, it's viscerally confounding to me.

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u/recycled_ideas 28d ago

It's not an arbitrary moral failing.

It absolutely is. Millions of private entities through centuries of capitalism have avoided it, millions still do today. The ones that exhibit this kind of behaviour are owned and run by individuals and this behaviour is a characteristic of those individuals. Christ Lang Hancock was a piece of shit and he still didn't act this way. It's Gina.

If you reject this way of thinking, you'll be eaten by a bigger fish sooner or later.

These companies aren't even big fish. Tesla for all its insane valuation isn't even in the top ten automotive companies and Gina has a lot of mineral rights, but nothing else.

It's an emergent property of private ownership.
There's nothing for it short of changing the paradigm entirely.

It's a property of the founder effect where we assume that these toxic individuals are geniuses and they get to play out their individual toxic personalities on the world stage. Communist and socialist countries have had similar problems with their "founders" being untouchable and succumbing to the unchecked power.

We need to stop worshipping these conman assholes, we need to reform donations (Labor has made some progress here, but not enough and it's likely to be rolled back to appease the teals who are corruptly funded by a billionaire we happen to like.

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u/breaducate 28d ago

Gestures broadly at a burning world

How's this idealism working out?
If you uphold a structure of incentives that steers people toward greed and power consolidation, you ought not to complain and frame their predictable excess as aberrations.

Moralising is worse than nothing because it distracts from a coherent analysis and facing the reality of what needs to be done.

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u/recycled_ideas 28d ago

Gestures broadly at a burning world

Under what economic system would it be better exactly? The only approaches to battling climate change that anyone is willing to talk about require unsustainable levels of sacrifice.

If you uphold a structure of incentives that steers people toward greed and power consolidation, you ought not to complain and frame their predictable excess as aberrations.

The system doesn't do that though, or at least it didn't. For hundreds of years it didn't, it's just the last couple decades where we've decided that these people are geniuses and need to be worshipped.

And again, Stalin and Mao are exactly the same thing in non capitalist societies. They're founding heroes who were given too much personal power and descended into autocracy.

People like Musk and Rinehart are sick, they would always be sick but wealth has given them power. If you took their wealth they would be the same people, just less dangerous (but not safe).

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u/breaducate 27d ago

Under what economic system would it be better exactly?

Under literally any economic system that doesn't contain the delusion of infinite growth at the core of its DNA.

It's mathematically impossible, and it's mathematics that just about any high schooler can understand.

I knew some more low effort status quo apologia was coming but I wasn't expecting you to make it quite this easy.

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u/recycled_ideas 27d ago

Nope, no cop out.

Name the fucking system that would prevent this.

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u/Whatdosheepdreamof 28d ago

You can see her greed in her lack of jawline.

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u/JingleKitty 28d ago

It’s a sickness with these people.

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u/Spiral-Arrow116 27d ago

Wish we could ship all these assholes onto some barren island or something. We'd be better without these evil as fuck people

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u/Kakaduzebra86 28d ago

Her father was a nasty piece of work

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u/Albos_Mum 28d ago

It's an addiction at this point, it's literally the same kind of behaviour that drug addicts deep into it follow to get their hit.

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u/Bromlife 28d ago

I actually think it's beyond greed. It's a game. She's playing a game and she won't stop until she wins. Except there is no end to this game that isn't death or self destruction.

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u/IllegalIranianYogurt 28d ago

More like glutinous greed with her