Dear Calem Malem,

You bleat: "Claims need to be fact checked but some sources are more trustworthy than others- sometimes the corruption in society is so great nothing can be trusted."

What an idiotic post-truth statement.

Ttbn made an utterly false statement about the Productivity Commission figures. I provide you with the correct figures and a link to the Productivity Commission's own report and you are now throwing shade on them? My God. Doesn't the truth matter anymore in your world?

Yet just before you were happily applauding distorted figures without a source posted by an anonymous internet person.

It must be a hoot living in a world without the inconvenience of facts lapping up poodle vomit.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance, intimidation,
and cowardice.

CM

The aggressive maniac, SteeleRedux, needs to be ignored for the nasty boofhead he is. He insults people in the first few words of his posts; he is out of control. His only supporters are Foxy and Paul 1405, who don't seem to realise that allying themselves with such an extremist taints their reputations even more than their own behaviour does.

I would be surprised if complaints haven't been made against SteeleRedux. There certainly would have been complaints made against him if he spewed his nasty rubbish on Twitter or Facebook.

But, I suppose it's best to let him run, and show everybody just what sorts of people society is up against.

I just hope his appalling behaviour is not putting off decent people who might be able provide interesting ideas and opinions we might benefit from. I imagine their would be people who look at OLO but not touch it because they don't want to be abused. And, it is abuse, not just healthy argument.

The Moderator of this Forum is quite fair. He allows
arguments (and abuse) from both sides of the table.
If you take up the mantle yourself you can't complain
when someone else hits back.

I admire posters like David F., Banjo Paterson and others
who are able to control themselves and refuse to react
to0 abuse. They simply correct the misinformation being
spruiked. That's not easy to do.

I've lost many sleepless nights - wondering - "Why me?
I'm not that person?"

After a while you realize that some people have made up
their minds about you and are too set in their
ways and not capable of change.

Then all you can do is say:

"Are you f*ing kidding me?" And walk away.

Thanks Josephus and ttbn.
Yes supporter Emeritus Professor Denise Ferris spitting in the No Voters face concurs with my experience as to the intolerance of the Communist Marxists.

This academic could be considered as a representative of a certain standard character archetype of so called "modern academia" and the academy or university and it's dangerous effects on downstream institutions.

Sadly many academics appear to have dangerous communist beliefs whether they went into academia with these ideas or they were indoctrinated by the university environment.

Traditionalists shouldn't try to pitch their ideas to Communists but to the normal people. It's often pointless to argue with Marxists because we are the enemy in their reality. As Hebrew Philosopher and Writer Ayn Rand and German Philosopher Nietzsche say Marxist Nihilists try to short circuit the means and try to go straight to the ends- cause to effect- substitute thought for feeling.

I often find myself getting distracted by communist argument rather than focusing on the important. But of course at times it is important to warn against communist ploys.

For Marxist Communist Nihilists our very ideas and cultures need to be exterminated let alone our physical bodies- this is exactly what occurred in Maoist China in their purge.

The irony is these same communist nihilists will promote equality, peace, transparency, fairness, etc in public however in private and action they don't appear to believe in these things. With case studies of communist policy in the west it becomes apparent that they are totalitarian.

They seem to say to new communists that all lies are valid because the evil of the other side is so great. Muslims apparently have a similar concept of taquia in which it's ok to lie to infidels.

What should we do about the scurge of communism? What have they done about ideas similar to communism in the past? Rather than being reactive against communism is there a pro-something philosophy that renders the threat of communism as irrelevant? Maybe there needs to be a layering of different approaches