Who would have thought that a discussion about Australia's
Olympic medal haul would resurrect the Cold War terminology
of "Marxist".

Perhaps "Kraut" and "Jap" will also do a
come back - or even "Fascist" or "Goose-stepping Nazi?"

It's dog whistling tactics that try to rile up the ignorant.
They don't know what it means but it sounds nasty to them.

Hitler was the first to use the term "Marxist" or "Bolshevik"
as a means to label political threats to be eliminated.

The Cold War has been over for over 30 years but it seems
that the use of "Marxist" for enemies has lasted.

It has certainly "riled up the ignorant" in this case, too.

Not a bot John Daysh, but definitely using AI to write your posts. I didn't bother answering your arguments because they were the sort of nonsense AI puts out.

Take the claim that the energy transition is going to increase productivity. This is demonstrably wrong. The energy transition will increase the price of electricity, in fact already has. Just a few years ago the average wholesale price was $50 a MWh and now it is more like $100. So that's a decrease in productivity across the economy. We measure productivity as the total output in dollar value divided by the number of work hours required to produce it. This is only going to get worse as the price of power continues to go up as electrification proceeds.

AI doesn't think, it just grazes through information and puts associations together. It also hallucinates from time to time. This claim is an example of the first.

At least now you've stopped using AI it's easier to read your posts, as in less annoying.

What next, medals for watching these weirdo Games ?

"Weirdo" seems to be the 'in' word at the moment. In the U.S, Harris and Waltz are calling Donald Trump a weirdo.

A "weirdo" is a person whose behaviour is considered odd
and unconventional. And calling the former US president
a "weirdo", is not insulting but honest.