In that it was an effort by horrible people to degrade the human condition with no respect for the harm caused along the way sure.

Lmfao how the hell do we have the cult of musk sniffing in Australian politics?

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    Fun fact: Sussan Ley added an extra ‘s’ to her name because of numerology.

    In terms of names determining futures, some politicians change theirs, to master their own destiny. Disgraced former Health Minister Sussan Ley added that superfluous third “s”. In 2015, she told the Australian newspaper: “I read about this numerology theory that if you add the numbers that match the letters in your name you can change your personality … If you added an ‘s’ I’d have an incredibly exciting, interesting life and nothing would ever be boring.” Careful what you wish for.

    Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-15/politicians-with-unfortunate-nicknames-that-stick/9147642

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      I don’t think that’s legal here. Australian political campaigns are typically not on the scale of corrupted that usa ones are. Clive Palmer is probably the most dramatic example of someone trying to buy influence and it didn’t work out as amazingly cost effective.

      I also suspect that Murdoch would fight hard to resist any attempt to remove him from his station as political kingmaker in Australia.

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        and it didn’t work out

        It definitely did work out. He may not have gotten himself elected, but that was never really the goal. The primary goal was always keeping Labor out. Which he did, very successfully, in the 2019 unloseable election.