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Liberal Party names first female leader after historic Australia election loss (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Seppo detected.

Liberalism in the rest of the world means what our party is, you Americans warped the meaning to something progressive. That is unique to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm south East Asian living in europe, never been to the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Well you need to stop acting like an American, because even Euro's know what a Liberal is.

In contrast, European liberals usually favor limited government, free trade, and adhere to economic liberalism.[10]

In the context of European politics, a liberal (when the word is used without a modifier) is generally understood to refer to a classical liberal, who may be either centre-left or centre-right. As a result, a European classical liberal usually refers to a centre-right person with prominent economically liberal tendencies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_Europe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

As an European (who had lived in multiple countries in Europe) I can tell you that around here Liberal actually means Neoliberal.

Sure, they pay lip service to a selected set of inequalities (and even then, with massive selectivity and hypocrisy - for example they will at times express anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment) - whilst heavily promoting the secondarisation of the powers elected in Democracy to the power of Money (the whole point of Low Regulation and Privatisation of natural monopolies is that the State which is controlled by the citizens through their vote, comes second to Money) , often openly defending Wealth Inequality.

In Europe the real Classical Liberal ideals tend to be found not in "Liberal" parties but in the mainstream Left, specifically Social Democratic parties.

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