Just like Trump in the US, Pauline Hanson is normalising the targeting of anyine who isn’t from a European background.

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    These people are pretty much massive losers. They need people to pick on so they feel like less of a loser. Picking on a majority probably not the best idea…

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    They are not unfunny. They are desperate losers in life. It’s as simple as that.

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    We knew the answer to this 50 years ago:

    If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. - LBJ

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      And another thing - the crotch, down where your nuts hang - is always a little too tight, so when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there, uh because they cut me, it’s just like riding a wire fence. These are almost, these are the best I’ve had anywhere in the United States […] But, uh when I gain a little weight they cut me under there. So, leave me , you never do have much of margin there. See if you can’t leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to.

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    A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

    They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

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      you underestimate the power of mean, lots of intelligent well educated people are just mean

      and they lie

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        I’m genuinely curious how, precisely, this is a perspective that negates my post?

        Calling for the broad education of a population is a path to inoculating it against a narrow and fragile subset so scared of their shadow they need everyone to be dragged down to their level.

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    Those people want free publicity by stiring up as much controversy as possible; especially Pauline with her brain dead arguments and stunts. People like that will continue to exist as long as their shtick continues to work.

    It’s probably a lot more complex than that, but it’s best to just stop listening to them.

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    Is giving this oxygen here really helping? Does anyone here not already know what these people are?

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      and yet she leads the most popular party in Australia according to recent polls, her hate and stupidity resonate.

      I had a friend say to me “she just makes sense”… and yet there is no part of me that thinks anything she speaks of makes sense

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        So fucking embarrassing.

        It hits me right in the smug. We were the last sane democracy for a while there. Still plenty of time for an implosion before the next election though.

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        I had a friend say to me “she just makes sense”…

        I guess because, like most populists, she uses very simple messaging to dumb down complex issues so that anyone can understand them.

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    It’s racists doing racist things. The young girl might just be playing the system to land a bullshit job as a professional hater for Pauline or Trump. She’s generated enough buzz over it to get noticed.

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    I’d presume it’s born out of being born mentally deficient and without a personality or spine. That’s one of my beliefs on why bigots are the way they are.

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    Why the fuck you gotta mention Trump and the US? Even that shit doesn’t fly here.

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      bullshit, Gjna is regularly at Mar -a-Largo and is a huge supporter of Trump., shed a massive ONP donor. They’re different sides of the coin, denying reality doesn’t change reality.

      We have been at this shit for as long as the US, John Howard won over people going apeshit over Tampa and thier hate of refugees. We literally built internment camps and no one gave a shit, at least some protest in the US.

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        Ted Danson is repeatedly forced to apologize for a blackface skit in 1993 over here, but this would be ok? Nah. Keep on living in online-land and being a contrarian. You’re good at it.

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      One Nation are currently leading the polls. Either the majority of Australians are incredibly low information voters, or they either don’t care about racism or actively support it.

      Time will tell as to which it is.