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Pauline Hanson claims that there are 872,000 people who can't speak English in Australia as a way to complain about multiculturalism. The thing is: that figure includes over 100,000 babies.

Her claim uses self-reported ABS data, which is not an objective test of someone's English competency. Some of the adults in these figures are likely saying they can't speak English just because they don't speak it as fluently as those with it as a first language.

English competency is a requirement for Australian citizenship (unless you're born here, so babies don't need to prove it). The exception being those over 60, those under 16, or people with a permanent mental or physical incapacity.

So the Australian citizens who were born overseas but aren't competent at English? Probably family members like grandparents, children and dependants. Also, deaf people don't speak English, they use sign language. Oh, and some Indigenous communities focus on their language first as a way to prevent its extinction. There are multiple reasons why English isn't the primary language of many people.

In fact, the level of English competency required was already increased by the Coalition back in 2017. The level required is similar to that to be accepted into a university so those who come here to study, get skills that benefit the nation, and decide they like it here so much as to stay and contribute to our MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY will be fine. But that doesn't fit Hanson’s narrative so she's ignoring all of that.

So Pauline Hanson is trying to misrepresent statistics to stoke racist fears that social cohesion is being undermined by not understanding the idea of BABIES EXISTING and people having grandparents etc. Her solution is something that already is in place. This is just stupidity and racism. That's all One Nation represents.

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Many neonazis and their ilk are okay with their icons being portrayed negatively as long as that negativity takes the form of a powerful and threatening figure. They like identifying themselves with Big Scary Destroyer. It's a power fantasy for them.

That's why, for instance, Trump's incoherence when speaking doesn't bother them. His incoherence is taken, by and large, very seriously. The man opens his mouth and drops a bunch of verbal turds - and the world panics, or at the least gets very, very nervous. Not unjustifiedly, it's true, but the power fantasy of being able to say whatever they want and get taken seriously is still vicariously fulfilled.

But the Reflecting Pool? The Reflecting Pool wasn't supposed to be broken. It's not something Trump destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, which is how Trump's base experienced his gutting of the government via Musk. The Reflecting Pool is something that was supposed to be improved, which he boasted about improving, and instead it's clearly turned to muck. There's no power fantasy there. There's nothing to gloat over; it's just a damp gross failure. It isn't even a catastrophic failure! Tearing down the East Wing of the White House was dramatic, and had the value of making a big, indelible change to a national icon. No matter what happens, the East Wing as we knew it is gone. Power fantasy. By contrast, the Reflecting Pool? It's just fuckin dirty. It's gross. It's your neighbor's neglected cheap pool that's full of dead leaves and slime. An entirely pedestrian, grody, pathetic failure. It would literally be more salvageable as a PR thing for Trump if it got hit by a meteor and turned into a smoking crater.

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However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like "Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we're both here at the Devil's Sacrament, so I don't think an apology is necessary."

I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, "Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces."

And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, "Thanks. I stole them from the president."

And the rest of the team was like, "What...the fuck...?" before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.