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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Despite the name, the Australian Liberal Party is anything but liberal.

It was as a young woman that she changed her name from Susan to Sussan, inspired by numerology - an ancient belief that numbers have a mystical impact on people's lives.

"I read about this numerology theory that if you add the numbers that match the letters in your name you can change your personality," she told The Australian.

"I worked out that if you added an 's' I would have an incredibly exciting, interesting life and nothing would ever be boring. It's that simple."

Hoo boy.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (11 children)

What exactly do you mean that they're not liberal?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The Liberal Party of Australia (LP)[14] is the major centre-right[15][16] political party in Australia.

On the standard conservative - liberal scale, they trend conservative despite their name.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Makes me wonder how they started with Liberal in their name. Perhaps they were liberal from when they formed a hundred years ago and just never updated any of their positions or stances?

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago

they are economically liberal, socially conservative - so they support business and letting it do whatever the fuck it wants

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Or it's like North Korea calling themselves the Democratic People's Republic

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