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[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She deserves worse portraits. $46bil from mining is comic book villainy. Thanos and his plight garners more sympathy, who incidentally, she looks a lot like.

[–] The_Che_Banana 11 points 1 month ago

She's almost asking for someone to put up a website & ask users to submit thier own Gina artwork.

...or at least an Instagram page dedicated to this latest Streisand effect screeching

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 1 month ago

That’s not accurate at all! The real Gina would be eating spiders with her lizard tongue.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

I'd say both artists did well to capture the essence of their subject.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

A real aussie would be honoured to have such a portrait

[–] No1@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

that last one looks like Hosier's lane!

[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Gina wants to pay workers like 20c an hour if she could.

She's a piece of shit and the world will be better off without her.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

No, no. Shes an incredible job builder and businesswoman. The odds of such a business mastermind being born to a mining magnate were very low, but she beat those odds. Nothing to do with the fortune of her birth.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, if Australia’s sporting heroes say that these paintings shouldn’t be on display, who are we to argue?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. Gina is not a sport person
  2. Bullshit. If Warnie copped a derogatory portrait, he'd never be able to suppress it
[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, she got some swimmers to write in saying her portrait should be removed.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

You misspelled "paid". 😉

Billionaire learns interweb.