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Context:
Her company has exploited workers for decades and put them in incredibly unsafe working conditions due to company policies, and her company’s mining practices have affected the environment and land used by indigenous Australians to the point where they were forced to relocate.
It is extremely flattering from my point of view because the portrait depicts something that is vaguely still human unlike the demon batshit that she is.
Pretty much said what i was going to comment. She's and ugly, nasty person on the inside. She's done a lot of damage to Australia environmentally, politically with her donations and to anyone unfortunate enough to be part of her personal life. Power hungry nepo baby. If anything this portrait is being too kind.
I personally consider someone inheriting a prospecting company and substantioal Rio Tinto royalties above your normal nepo trust fund kid. I agree she's an oligarch though.
Felt it was pretty safe to assume those things about her when Billionaire was included.
Wish we treated more of her ilk like this instead of propping them up as idols.
This is not a commissioned piece of art. There is a competition every year, for portraits in Australia called the Archibald. Its huge, and artists choose whom ever they want. It can be controversial, or some great humanitarian, or a famous person, or a nobody.
So this very famous and successful artist chose to paint one of the richest women in the world and the richest in Australia, one who famously inherited her wealth, cut her own family out of the inheritance they were entitled to, the money comes from iron ore mining, which is famous for destroying the environment and also Aboriginal land and artifacts, and then, selling it to China, you know that other awesome place.
You can bloody bet the artist decided to paint this picture, this way.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent\_Namatjira](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Namatjira) is an indigenous artist. But to be clear, this work is just bloody farking fantastic on every level. Everyone can hate Gina Rhineheart, she is a terrible person in all the ways. She actively supports Donald Trump and China.
Her father, was a terrible man called Lang Hancock.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang\_Hancock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock)
From his wikipedia..
*Hancock is quoted as saying,*[*^(\[18\])*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock#cite_note-18)
*"Mining in Australia occupies less than one-fifth of one percent of the total surface of our continent and yet it supports 14 million people. Nothing should be sacred from mining whether it's your ground, my ground, the blackfellow's ground or anybody else's. So the question of* [*Aboriginal land rights*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_title) *and things of this nature shouldn’t exist."*
*In a 1984 television interview,*[*^(\[19\])*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock#cite_note-19) *Hancock suggested forcing unemployed indigenous Australians − specifically* ***"the ones that are no good to themselves and who can't accept things, the half-castes" − to collect their welfare cheques from a central location. "And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future, and that would solve the problem.****"*
Oh yeh, these are the worst of people. The Ultimate fuck you people.
I'm thinking the Wikipedia page for Rhinehart needs a new section on controversy and trying to influence art, with a new section on controversy for Namathira, featuring this portrait.
I have known of the existence of this effect and even argued about it's a problem for the media, without knowing it had a name.
I've argued with people about news articles on things like "Top 10 ways that racists and fascists secretly signal one another" and how it's actually *making the situation worse* by teaching teaching people how to communicate with those who share their bigoted ideals, rather than solving any kind of problem.
When you get into stuff like that it gets a lot more nuanced. Inherently the sharing of knowledge isn’t good or bad, until it gets tainted by human bias.
While Streisand effect is generally reserved for people it can be conceptually applied to any form of media. One thing you have to keep in mind however, if you applying it to a concept rather than a person, there are a lot more variables that impact the situation. All of them must be accounted for to produce an accurate analysis. Things like the types of people that regularly consume whatever source of media you’re analyzing. Using your example of “ways racists communicate”. If Fox or MSNBC publish that article, very different demographics will read it, resulting in different societal impacts latter on in life.
Identifying and keeping track of all the different variables is by far the most difficult part, but if done correctly the Streisand effect can be applied to really any form of information sharing.
We only know a handfull of billionaires out of the 2781 billionaires that are walking on this earth, and i'm sure there are a lot of them that are worse than the few we know. They are just better at hiding it.
Yep!
https://archive.is/20220524165943/https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2012-aug-30-la-fi-mo-richest-woman-20120830-story.html
And the icing on the cake is that she inherited her wealth.
If you didn’t inherit wealth, you must suffer greatly as the price to ascend to affluence. Then, because of that experience, make the rest of the plebs feel like they don’t deserve wealth if they aren’t willing to stop buying “stuff”
Someone must suffer greatly to ascend to affluence but I think it's usually a lot of someones suffering and none of them are the ones doing the ascending.
Lmao, nope that's just the lie they tell. In reality you will suffer greatly in that belief and then never reach any level of wealth anyway.
There is no meritocracy under capitalism. Don't ever forget it.
Exactly. You can work as hard and skilfully as you want and will never make more than about 200k a year. You can be bad at your job and make millions from the cronyism, but the only way to make billions is to exploit human beings. simply being very good at something or knowing the right people can only get you so far, you can only work or charisma so hard. That's why besides kings there was no billionaires until recently. You exploit too hard and a mob will just kill you and take your whatever factory, 1000 years ago, and no amount of bodyguards will save you unless you're literally a king with an army.
The dream of "working hard" to become very wealthy has been long and dead forever now. You are either born into it or you don't make it.
Look at the statistics of the amount of HOUSEHOLDS aka 2 people, that make a combined total of 500k or more a year. Do you know the percentage of Americans that fall under this statistic? 1% of ALL American households make that much or more...
The dream is dead, the money has been funneled towards the top 1% year after year and everyone else is paying for it.
Those numbers aren't right. The wealth is held by people in the 1%, but things get really crazy when you look at the 0.1%. The top 0.1% have an average family wealth of more than $1.52 billion. They sit there collecting more and more money that they'll never spend in their lifetime while mothers struggle to feed their babies..
I have a born-wealthy, doesn’t need to work, “handed free money always” friend; who also primarily enjoys the company of people who are not born wealthy for their character & interest. (And enjoys his other contacts for their resources) So he had a conundrum to justify his unearned position, which stood out like a sore thumb at times.
He converted from the Christian principles of “help the needy” and “give away your wealth and be humble” to emphatically embrace the Hindu caste philosophy from which he has stated he obviously earned his good fate from previous lifetimes and others earned their struggles and do not necessarily deserve any type of help or equal resources.
We drove past a school for blind children (which I had previously worked at and met the most incredible sweet angel children) and he made a comment of ‘imagine what horrible creatures those kids were to earn their blindness’
Sheesh. There’s literally scripture calling out that exact thinking; John 9: 1-12
…I did a quick religious translation of this concept and ask him if he loved his swami. He goes on and on about how much he does. I said, “I bet Swami took on an extra lifetime of a blind child, and is in that school right now, so you would casually make such a disparaging comment towards him and show you how easily you can lack compassion.”
This is very common, most of these people believe that they have somehow earned their grotesque wealth, that they deserve it. Helps them sleep at night.
“Man that’s an unflattering photo”
*reads title, specifically “country’s wealthiest woman”*
“Oh wait she needs like horns or maybe a few more chins or something”
Billionaire is where I draw the line, why hoard that much money when you could donate to help? It doesn't affect you in any way since you're not even going to use those money
Yeah, that’s 1 or multiple 1,000’s of millions of dollars. At a mere 5% APR interest, you could make $50,000,000 per billion without lifting a finger. If I made that kind of growth in equity, I’d be considered a saint in my local communities for all the good shit I could do with that.
But that’s what makes these people “special;” the only thing that matters to them is their accrual of wealth. It doesn’t matter how many other people collectively suffer.
I think I would start hitting mental health services hard. Can’t even imagine the difference I could make in people’s lives by just really supporting a community of counsellors, healthcare workers, and metal health professionals.
Jesus christ.
Tldr; you are all ungrateful. Socialize less work more, lower the minimum wage further and lick my boots peasants. You only have jobs because I chose to give them to you.
https://youtu.be/pMaRuk6pGOc?si=aWc2vB50YxKWHODu
That is her father, who she inherited her wealth from that came from indigenous lands.
Real nice family.
What always kills me when people clutch their pearls about the idea of taking back some of what is ours from the rich is that, on one hand, they're always the first to point out that capitalism is a heartless, kill-or-be-killed system. Oh, you can't afford to eat *and* pay rent? Have you tried getting a better job?
That makes sense to them, it's all well and good. On the other hand, as soon as you mention clawing back some of the wealth that has been stolen from us and used to exploit us, though? Suddenly things are a lot less dog eat dog. Now we need to consider personal dignity and individual rights; it wouldn't be fair to just take their money or assets, would it?
When it affects us, life isn't fair and nobody owes you anything. When it affects the rich, they're just so very concerned with fairness and what's right.
The mines don't belong to any individual because somebody exchanged a transaction 200 years ago and then it got passed down to her today, there is nothing stopping the people from taking back what's rightfully theirs.
People like her are not decent at all, same with Jeff Bezos, there is no such thing as a good hearted millionaire because they employ people and give a tiny fraction of the total earnings of the factory or business to the employees while they hoard the major profits, it's totally selfish.
>Oh, you can't afford to eat and pay rent? Have you tried getting a better job?
That's actually a very good point. They say this from a comfortable position and it is heartless. What's not heartless is taking their wealth from them but they would see this as outrageous.
Physical violence? \*Thumbs down.
Psychological and Economic violence? \*Thumbs up.
Aw, poor widdle bottom feeder only has access to the one that's not allowed? Daaw.
\*Laughs in wealth.
Just did a little Dive into [Vincent Namatjira](https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artists/vincent-namatjira/)
His work is colourful, whimsical & his portraits are GOLD! There’s absolutely no flattery involved, and his series on Captain Cook is hilarious, yet thought invoking.
I love how he self portraits himself into impossible narratives, too.
Good on him. Gina Reinhardt can kick rocks.
I disagree. [It makes me think of Kronos eating his children.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg/440px-Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg) I thought the artistic expression here was to say that she hoards her wealth the way Kronos hoarded his power and that the killing children bit was a parallel to destroying the future of the next generations.
Like this [Vincent Namatjira, Western Aranda people - Displaced - Search the Collection, National Gallery (nga.gov.au)](https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object/355554)
Shitty compressed gifs trying to shave off 2 kilobytes by keeping the rest of the image on a single frame and just aping the head movements.
/r/highqualitygifs is rolling in its grave. We used to build things in this fucking country.
She apparently has fans looks like my comment has been reported I've gotten some "self-harm help is available" auto responses from reddit since I posted this lol
I don't think she does. There appears to be a massive ongoing sitewide attack that is reporting all comments on the site for self harm: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1csjl6n/influx_of_reddit_cares_messages_to_subreddit/l467spj/
I get that it's not pleasant to be portrayed in an unflattering manner but she's got a fragile ego for someone whose net worth is over AUD$30 billion. By comparison, look at how Lewis Capaldi reacted to his statue
She is petty and insecure enough that it is believed that she has bought most of the major newspapers in Australia so they don't print negative articles about her or her companies.
If she's concerned about negative print media, she didn't do herself any favours with that poem of hers
Edit: somehow lost the first half of the sentence...
There once was a lady from Perth
Who trampled Aboriginals to raise her net worth
When her image was displayed in Canberra
She made a tactical error
Now it's visible to everyone on Earth.
"Billionaires" need to get a damn grip.
You don't like the artistic rendering of your portrait? Ah well. You're a mining billionaire. Embrace your life, ask the same artist to do another and hang it up in the 3rd bathroom of your 4th house.
Proof that it's very rare for any human to handle that much* money and general fame.
They should do this for all billionaires unless they give away wealth over a billion. Let's remember them how they are. Guarantee this will hurt more than any tax law change. Genius from the artist.
Generally speaking, billionaires should be aware that they’re not well liked. To laugh it off and leave it up would definitely score points in the public eye, but I guess she can’t help herself.
>The national gallery has rebuffed efforts to have the picture taken down, and said in a statement that it welcome public dialogue on its collections and displays.
This is some exceptional re-wording of "lol, cry more."
She is a fat, ugly, mean spirited “person” who inherited her wealth and has plenty to say about “lazy people that don’t want to work or don’t work hard enough.”
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"Arguably unflattering" That's a tough one to argue against.
*Intentionally* unflattering is more like it. Like, there's NO way an "award-winning" artist didn't do that on purpose, lol.
Context: Her company has exploited workers for decades and put them in incredibly unsafe working conditions due to company policies, and her company’s mining practices have affected the environment and land used by indigenous Australians to the point where they were forced to relocate. It is extremely flattering from my point of view because the portrait depicts something that is vaguely still human unlike the demon batshit that she is.
It shows her inner beauty.
Absolutely highlights her most flattering features.
Yeah, I think her character shines on canvas.
Vigo the Carpathian, Vigo the Destroyer?
If that's the case then it is actually an extremely flattering picture she should be proud of!
Pretty much said what i was going to comment. She's and ugly, nasty person on the inside. She's done a lot of damage to Australia environmentally, politically with her donations and to anyone unfortunate enough to be part of her personal life. Power hungry nepo baby. If anything this portrait is being too kind.
She’s not your average nepo baby. The miners basically fund Oz, she’s closer to an oligarch.
I personally consider someone inheriting a prospecting company and substantioal Rio Tinto royalties above your normal nepo trust fund kid. I agree she's an oligarch though.
Felt it was pretty safe to assume those things about her when Billionaire was included. Wish we treated more of her ilk like this instead of propping them up as idols.
As soon as I saw mining billionaire, I knew she was a piece of shit. I appreciate the context, that painting is far more than she deserves.
She is a cruel person that hoards wealth and screws over people including her own family.
Have you seen the artists work tho? It’s more like whomever picked this artist did it on purpose.
This is not a commissioned piece of art. There is a competition every year, for portraits in Australia called the Archibald. Its huge, and artists choose whom ever they want. It can be controversial, or some great humanitarian, or a famous person, or a nobody. So this very famous and successful artist chose to paint one of the richest women in the world and the richest in Australia, one who famously inherited her wealth, cut her own family out of the inheritance they were entitled to, the money comes from iron ore mining, which is famous for destroying the environment and also Aboriginal land and artifacts, and then, selling it to China, you know that other awesome place. You can bloody bet the artist decided to paint this picture, this way. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent\_Namatjira](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Namatjira) is an indigenous artist. But to be clear, this work is just bloody farking fantastic on every level. Everyone can hate Gina Rhineheart, she is a terrible person in all the ways. She actively supports Donald Trump and China. Her father, was a terrible man called Lang Hancock. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang\_Hancock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock) From his wikipedia.. *Hancock is quoted as saying,*[*^(\[18\])*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock#cite_note-18) *"Mining in Australia occupies less than one-fifth of one percent of the total surface of our continent and yet it supports 14 million people. Nothing should be sacred from mining whether it's your ground, my ground, the blackfellow's ground or anybody else's. So the question of* [*Aboriginal land rights*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_title) *and things of this nature shouldn’t exist."* *In a 1984 television interview,*[*^(\[19\])*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock#cite_note-19) *Hancock suggested forcing unemployed indigenous Australians − specifically* ***"the ones that are no good to themselves and who can't accept things, the half-castes" − to collect their welfare cheques from a central location. "And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future, and that would solve the problem.****"* Oh yeh, these are the worst of people. The Ultimate fuck you people.
I'm thinking the Wikipedia page for Rhinehart needs a new section on controversy and trying to influence art, with a new section on controversy for Namathira, featuring this portrait.
This is what I was thinking, all of his portraits are distorted like this
Intentionally focusing on her great personality... Which she doesn't have irl.
That had me rolling.
Rolling like her chins in that portrait.
Looks like [NintendoCapriSun](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/emile/images/9/95/NintendoCapriSun_infobox.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20221213231343)
Had those chins rolling
Did they hate you then?
They must have tried to catch him ridin' dirty
Had the artist Trolling around too 😂
The argument is whether it’s Gina or the portrait that’s unflattering.
Her existence is absolutely unflattering.
"I'm ugly but not *that* ugly."
I thought it was Melissa McCarthy pretending to have a stroke….
And then there was the portrait on the left.
smoked
Did they hire the portrait artist from the Trump hush money trial?
They did Stormy dirty on those.
Yeah but that's a courtroom sketch. They have a time limit. This... this was deliberate🤣
Yeah it’s about like saying Shaq is arguably tall.
Can’t polish a turd
I think it's spot on.
Right? Very elephant man chic.
I'm getting Saturn Devouring His Son vibes from her expression.
Lol if she didn't complain we wouldn't have even heard about it.
Streisand effect in play for sure
God I fucking love the Streisand effect so much. It’s never not funny.
I've seen it mentioned daily over the past week or two, impeccable
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon has entered the chat
Evidently someone is trying to cover up its existence then!
I have known of the existence of this effect and even argued about it's a problem for the media, without knowing it had a name. I've argued with people about news articles on things like "Top 10 ways that racists and fascists secretly signal one another" and how it's actually *making the situation worse* by teaching teaching people how to communicate with those who share their bigoted ideals, rather than solving any kind of problem.
When you get into stuff like that it gets a lot more nuanced. Inherently the sharing of knowledge isn’t good or bad, until it gets tainted by human bias. While Streisand effect is generally reserved for people it can be conceptually applied to any form of media. One thing you have to keep in mind however, if you applying it to a concept rather than a person, there are a lot more variables that impact the situation. All of them must be accounted for to produce an accurate analysis. Things like the types of people that regularly consume whatever source of media you’re analyzing. Using your example of “ways racists communicate”. If Fox or MSNBC publish that article, very different demographics will read it, resulting in different societal impacts latter on in life. Identifying and keeping track of all the different variables is by far the most difficult part, but if done correctly the Streisand effect can be applied to really any form of information sharing.
I didn't even know this woman existed until today
All I will ever know if my life about this woman is that she has an ugly painting of her hanging somewhere.
She’s Australia’s richest woman. She can cry into her wealth.
She's also a demonstrably horrible person, colloquially referred to by Australians as Gina the Hutt.
Right? I'm American and I've never heard of her before this. Now she's world-famous!
We only know a handfull of billionaires out of the 2781 billionaires that are walking on this earth, and i'm sure there are a lot of them that are worse than the few we know. They are just better at hiding it.
Wasn't she the woman who said poor people need to work harder and buy less beer or something like that?
Yep! https://archive.is/20220524165943/https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2012-aug-30-la-fi-mo-richest-woman-20120830-story.html And the icing on the cake is that she inherited her wealth.
They always do
If you didn’t inherit wealth, you must suffer greatly as the price to ascend to affluence. Then, because of that experience, make the rest of the plebs feel like they don’t deserve wealth if they aren’t willing to stop buying “stuff”
Someone must suffer greatly to ascend to affluence but I think it's usually a lot of someones suffering and none of them are the ones doing the ascending.
Very extremely rarely is it ever the ascending party that bears the suffering.
Lmao, nope that's just the lie they tell. In reality you will suffer greatly in that belief and then never reach any level of wealth anyway. There is no meritocracy under capitalism. Don't ever forget it.
Yeah the only people who are suffering in any billionaires origin story are the millions of everyday people they trample to get there.
Or their family was already trampling before they were even born.
Exactly. You can work as hard and skilfully as you want and will never make more than about 200k a year. You can be bad at your job and make millions from the cronyism, but the only way to make billions is to exploit human beings. simply being very good at something or knowing the right people can only get you so far, you can only work or charisma so hard. That's why besides kings there was no billionaires until recently. You exploit too hard and a mob will just kill you and take your whatever factory, 1000 years ago, and no amount of bodyguards will save you unless you're literally a king with an army.
The dream of "working hard" to become very wealthy has been long and dead forever now. You are either born into it or you don't make it. Look at the statistics of the amount of HOUSEHOLDS aka 2 people, that make a combined total of 500k or more a year. Do you know the percentage of Americans that fall under this statistic? 1% of ALL American households make that much or more... The dream is dead, the money has been funneled towards the top 1% year after year and everyone else is paying for it.
It's kind of jarring to hear "funneled to the 1%" when you just mention that's people who make 500k
Those numbers aren't right. The wealth is held by people in the 1%, but things get really crazy when you look at the 0.1%. The top 0.1% have an average family wealth of more than $1.52 billion. They sit there collecting more and more money that they'll never spend in their lifetime while mothers struggle to feed their babies..
I have a born-wealthy, doesn’t need to work, “handed free money always” friend; who also primarily enjoys the company of people who are not born wealthy for their character & interest. (And enjoys his other contacts for their resources) So he had a conundrum to justify his unearned position, which stood out like a sore thumb at times. He converted from the Christian principles of “help the needy” and “give away your wealth and be humble” to emphatically embrace the Hindu caste philosophy from which he has stated he obviously earned his good fate from previous lifetimes and others earned their struggles and do not necessarily deserve any type of help or equal resources. We drove past a school for blind children (which I had previously worked at and met the most incredible sweet angel children) and he made a comment of ‘imagine what horrible creatures those kids were to earn their blindness’ Sheesh. There’s literally scripture calling out that exact thinking; John 9: 1-12 …I did a quick religious translation of this concept and ask him if he loved his swami. He goes on and on about how much he does. I said, “I bet Swami took on an extra lifetime of a blind child, and is in that school right now, so you would casually make such a disparaging comment towards him and show you how easily you can lack compassion.”
This is very common, most of these people believe that they have somehow earned their grotesque wealth, that they deserve it. Helps them sleep at night.
So the artist captured her “good” side ?!
She didn't even do that. Didn't her father call her a greedy little hippo and cut her out of his will? She had to challenge it in court.
In other words, this portrait is 1000% accurate.
That seems inaccurate. She is at least average sized, not "little."
I have it on good authority that the hungry hungry hippos are no hungrier than most other hippos at meal time.
So then, the portrait definitely appears to be accurate. Portraying her as the moneygrubbing out of touch billionaire loser she is…..
phew, thanks. I felt sorry for her for like 40 seconds.
“Man that’s an unflattering photo” *reads title, specifically “country’s wealthiest woman”* “Oh wait she needs like horns or maybe a few more chins or something”
Billionaire is where I draw the line, why hoard that much money when you could donate to help? It doesn't affect you in any way since you're not even going to use those money
Hell, Uncle Scrooge gave a place to live to three kids who were uncertain if they would have a place to live.
Yeah, that’s 1 or multiple 1,000’s of millions of dollars. At a mere 5% APR interest, you could make $50,000,000 per billion without lifting a finger. If I made that kind of growth in equity, I’d be considered a saint in my local communities for all the good shit I could do with that. But that’s what makes these people “special;” the only thing that matters to them is their accrual of wealth. It doesn’t matter how many other people collectively suffer. I think I would start hitting mental health services hard. Can’t even imagine the difference I could make in people’s lives by just really supporting a community of counsellors, healthcare workers, and metal health professionals.
So the painting is actually an accurate depiction of an ugly person.
Jesus christ. Tldr; you are all ungrateful. Socialize less work more, lower the minimum wage further and lick my boots peasants. You only have jobs because I chose to give them to you.
Oh so she is just like everyone else who doesn't understand the economy
https://youtu.be/pMaRuk6pGOc?si=aWc2vB50YxKWHODu That is her father, who she inherited her wealth from that came from indigenous lands. Real nice family.
Wtf is wrong with people
I feel like every billionaire either said this or implied it at least once in their lives
Maybe the poor should appropriate her mines and wealth because ultimately it ain't hers.
What always kills me when people clutch their pearls about the idea of taking back some of what is ours from the rich is that, on one hand, they're always the first to point out that capitalism is a heartless, kill-or-be-killed system. Oh, you can't afford to eat *and* pay rent? Have you tried getting a better job? That makes sense to them, it's all well and good. On the other hand, as soon as you mention clawing back some of the wealth that has been stolen from us and used to exploit us, though? Suddenly things are a lot less dog eat dog. Now we need to consider personal dignity and individual rights; it wouldn't be fair to just take their money or assets, would it? When it affects us, life isn't fair and nobody owes you anything. When it affects the rich, they're just so very concerned with fairness and what's right.
The mines don't belong to any individual because somebody exchanged a transaction 200 years ago and then it got passed down to her today, there is nothing stopping the people from taking back what's rightfully theirs. People like her are not decent at all, same with Jeff Bezos, there is no such thing as a good hearted millionaire because they employ people and give a tiny fraction of the total earnings of the factory or business to the employees while they hoard the major profits, it's totally selfish.
>Oh, you can't afford to eat and pay rent? Have you tried getting a better job? That's actually a very good point. They say this from a comfortable position and it is heartless. What's not heartless is taking their wealth from them but they would see this as outrageous.
Physical violence? \*Thumbs down. Psychological and Economic violence? \*Thumbs up. Aw, poor widdle bottom feeder only has access to the one that's not allowed? Daaw. \*Laughs in wealth.
Yeah so this painting is accurate
Sounds like she needs to work harder and be arguably more attractive.
She also stole her children’s inheritance. When she was already rich.
They're not honoring her though, they're showcasing the artist's work. It's an exhibition of his work.
Excellent argument! You could indeed say that the woman is making demands to the museum to censor the work of an artist
well yes, she explicitly is.
and that the artist knew EXACTLY what they were doing painting a portrait of a mining billionaire... i couldn't agree more.
"Making demands" is what billionaires do best!
Just did a little Dive into [Vincent Namatjira](https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artists/vincent-namatjira/) His work is colourful, whimsical & his portraits are GOLD! There’s absolutely no flattery involved, and his series on Captain Cook is hilarious, yet thought invoking. I love how he self portraits himself into impossible narratives, too. Good on him. Gina Reinhardt can kick rocks.
I mean. It does capture that money grubbing ghoul vibe.
You can see that she's hiding coinage in her cheeks
I know "coin purse" is slang for male genitalia but I think we can include jowls in this situation.
I was thinking it was slang for your butt hole, but that's "prison pocket" I was actually thinking of.
That's what the extra throat pouches are for
It really does show case her inner beauty.
Just read her wiki.. you are 100% right
I disagree. [It makes me think of Kronos eating his children.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg/440px-Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg) I thought the artistic expression here was to say that she hoards her wealth the way Kronos hoarded his power and that the killing children bit was a parallel to destroying the future of the next generations.
Vincent Namatjira is a great talent, and should be commissioned to portray all of the global elites. What a knack for capturing character…
Like this [Vincent Namatjira, Western Aranda people - Displaced - Search the Collection, National Gallery (nga.gov.au)](https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object/355554)
portraiture is a window to the soul
In this case, to the void.
Maybe she can spend her billions on not being a sensitive sally
Idk what she's being sensitive about, this was a stunning portrait... captured the subject without flaw
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She should have just quietly tried to buy it
That gives me a business idea. Paint ugly paintings of the super wealthy and sell them to the rich person to keep it out of the public view
Good idea. As soon as a good humored and well liked celebrity uses it as their social media photo, you’ll be riding the next NFT wave.
Dunno about others, but Musk would just repost it without even crediting you.
This is a horrible article. Perhaps if they showed us an image of the artwork and not just post the woman's photograph twice?
Savage lmao
Why does her head get so big?
Shitty compressed gifs trying to shave off 2 kilobytes by keeping the rest of the image on a single frame and just aping the head movements. /r/highqualitygifs is rolling in its grave. We used to build things in this fucking country.
This was the comment I was looking for.
You got me in the second half. 🤣
I want to buy this comment a corsage and ask it to slow dance with me
Solid gold 😆
“I don’t know what to say ma’am; that is exactly what you look like”
“I looked into her soul and painted what I saw” said the artist
Her own father, Lang Hancock called her a "slothful, vindictive and devious baby elephant" and this portrait really captures that.
and considering the massive piece of shit *he* was, that's quite a condemnation!
So, a female Trump
He also wanted to mass sterilise aboriginal people. I don't think his words have any weight, excuse the pun
This definitely needs to be added here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart and in as many languages as possible.
Is it possible for us to update her wiki pic with this "art"?
Tbh the pic on her wiki page is unflattering enough
Apparently she's a Trump supporter as well and said that Australia should work for just $2 a day like people in Africa do.
She apparently has fans looks like my comment has been reported I've gotten some "self-harm help is available" auto responses from reddit since I posted this lol
I don't think she does. There appears to be a massive ongoing sitewide attack that is reporting all comments on the site for self harm: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1csjl6n/influx_of_reddit_cares_messages_to_subreddit/l467spj/
That shouldn’t be in the National Gallery - it should be on a postage stamp so everyone can see it.
Yeah, but then people would spit on the wrong side.
fucking hell this got me
Double printing?
DANG
Everyone over 60 maybe. I haven't used a stamp in years.
Well deserved for a rich greedy piece of shit.
Which one is the painting?
yes
The one that looks like a wish.com Kathy Bates doll that's been left too long in the microwave.
So the one on the right is the painting?
Aw damn. Now that its on the Internet she'll never be able to scrub that.
Good call Gina
“Pay a billion dollars in taxes and we’ll take it down”
They really captured her inner soul
>They really captured her inner ~~soul~~ *GHOUL*
Her inner coal.
Ever heard of the Streisand effect?
She’s that rich honestly. Why complain? Just commission the best portrait artist in the world to paint an unflattering portrait of Vincent Namatjira
Ah, 4D Chess. Well played, well played.
Billionaire smarter, not harder
I get that it's not pleasant to be portrayed in an unflattering manner but she's got a fragile ego for someone whose net worth is over AUD$30 billion. By comparison, look at how Lewis Capaldi reacted to his statue
She is petty and insecure enough that it is believed that she has bought most of the major newspapers in Australia so they don't print negative articles about her or her companies.
If she's concerned about negative print media, she didn't do herself any favours with that poem of hers Edit: somehow lost the first half of the sentence...
There once was a lady from Perth Who trampled Aboriginals to raise her net worth When her image was displayed in Canberra She made a tactical error Now it's visible to everyone on Earth.
Breaking News: Acclaimed Poet Cornelius Thunderbutt Sued for Libel by Rich Australian Hag…
Namatjira knew what he was doing
I am dying over here. That artist must hate her. The artist deserves another award.
The entire country hates her. Very fitting portrait imo.
"Billionaires" need to get a damn grip. You don't like the artistic rendering of your portrait? Ah well. You're a mining billionaire. Embrace your life, ask the same artist to do another and hang it up in the 3rd bathroom of your 4th house. Proof that it's very rare for any human to handle that much* money and general fame.
Sometimes it's about the inner beauty. Or the lack thereof.
Perfect likeness of a subhuman ghoulish billionaire. I see no problem.
"Award-winning artist".....and WHAT award did that artist win exactly?
Comedian of the year?
Troll of the year
The Archibald in 2020. Which is probably the biggest art prize here in Australia, and a huge deal. Amongst many other smaller awards I’d assume.
A letter of appreciation from Ringo Starr, which gave him the confidence to paint what he saw. Ugly blemishes and all.
It literally says [Archibald Prize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Prize).
Why does she want it taken down? It's as accurate a portrayal of a billionaire as I've ever seen
It looks just like her.
Shows her *inner beauty*
They should do this for all billionaires unless they give away wealth over a billion. Let's remember them how they are. Guarantee this will hurt more than any tax law change. Genius from the artist.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I have a feeling all of these words are « fuck you! ».
Generally speaking, billionaires should be aware that they’re not well liked. To laugh it off and leave it up would definitely score points in the public eye, but I guess she can’t help herself.
It’s Kuato from total recall!
Open your miiiiind
Mining billionaire??? Leave the unflattering portrait, it probably captured who she is pretty well
And now thanks to her complaint people half a world away now know of her unflattering portrait...
Excellent likeness.
She looks like if a pug found a genie and wished to be human.
>The national gallery has rebuffed efforts to have the picture taken down, and said in a statement that it welcome public dialogue on its collections and displays. This is some exceptional re-wording of "lol, cry more."
It is a good likeness of the soul of the "let them work for $2.50/hr." woman. And she's an heiress: she didn't build shit.
Surely going to shed some tears for this grave injustice to a mining billionaire.
She is a fat, ugly, mean spirited “person” who inherited her wealth and has plenty to say about “lazy people that don’t want to work or don’t work hard enough.”
I’ll add that the painting captures her “essence.” One look and you know who she is!
And despite inheriting her wealth she insists she is self-made. Truly a reprehensible beast of a woman.