Localization note: the Australian liberal party is right wing

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24583284

::: spoiler show transcript batshit-auspol posts:
So today in "Batshit things happening during the Australian election” - the Liberal Party has dropped a rap diss track about the Prime Minister and shopping prices on Soundcloud, and for those wondering, yes it is the worst thing you will ever hear.

As if that wasn't weird enough on its own, there's plenty of accusations circulating that they made the song using Al, given the bizarre choice of using an American accent in the song, and it's been pointed out that the cover art is parodying a Drake album cover which isn't exactly someone you want to be aligning yourself with in a rap battle right now.

Shoutout to this quote from Channel 7's story when the song dropped:

[snippet from the article reading: "At the time of writing, the track has one comment.

it simply says "excretable", meaning extreme bad or unpleasant "
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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Oh Australian Election Season... you so crazy.

schibutzu@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

For all the Swiss people: https://youtu.be/N9zWEEXYpgg

lovely_reader@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Transcript says "excretable" but image says "execrable."

nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

not anymore it doesn't :3

Cort@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

No, it still does. At least at this moment

nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

weird, i edited it a while ago

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I heard it was a Conservative made rap about the Liberal PM.

lovely_reader@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

The way those two words are used internationally can sometimes be confusing to Americans, which is why it's helpful to refer to left- and right-wing clarifications when given.

21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 1y (9 replies)

For what it's worth the American liberal party is at best centrist.

Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y

from an American viewpoint maybe??

edit: oh i thought you said Australian liberal party

RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (7 replies)
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21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 1y (6 replies)

By that logic the existence of fascists make the actual conservatives left wing. Extremists don't move the center point.

RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 1y (5 replies)
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Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I hope you are trolling, because I'm barely able to scratch enough sense out of it to approximate an argument.

RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

You are so hung up on the word eurocentric, you might just use that as the entire "argument".

RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1y
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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

Vocab word of the day.

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

I always wondered what words meant.