please explain.
Foxy,
Our being here is a direct result/connection on the political decisions you criticise !
Not ideal I admit but but no point in being hypocritical !

Well as usual SR had the option of replying with a well-thought out, fact laden examination of the issue (Foxy's Cold War nonsense) or just asserting that he doesn't want the truth to be true.

As usual he adopted the latter course.

If Paul thinks Russian communism and the NAZI Reich was not socialist
then I am a pumpkin.
Paul, look up the derivation of NAZI. I won't tell you as you would
not believe me.
So, the communists are not socialists. Hmmm many communists will be
turning in their millions of graves when they hear they were not
starved to death by Stalin the socialist, but by Stalin the communist.
Also of course, what about Mao was he a communist or a socialist ?

Hasbeen, I have taken to listening to ABC 576 of a morning with
Fran Kelly, The Global Warming station. Makes interesting listening.
They have been diverted recently by the covius, but it is interesting
to listen to the latest exposure of the mathematical misunderstanding
of our electrical system.
I suspect their editorial staff are made up of the children to which
you referred earlier. We all know where Australia stands in the world
maths education standards.
Still on RN no one has asked the obvious question; when the batteries,
which will be our saviors, are due to be recharged, where will they
get that large amount of power ? Oh, from the grid of course. Duhh !

ttbn: So CNN viewers have dropped 68% since Trump dropped out of the limelight. Because only the haters watch CNN and when there is no-one to hate, CNN is irrelevant?

Trump is said to have had 80 million followers on Twitter, not to mention Facebook. When he was blocked from Twitter, he started a blog. The only figure I can find for that is 200,000 followers. The blog is now closed - because the low number was a bit embarrassing (loser?)?

So, on your logic, this must mean that only the haters followed Trump on Twitter, and he had about 79,800,000 haters and only about 200,000 real followers?

(What about all those who voted for Trump? Presumably they would have voted for whoever was the Republican candidate. And they walked away from Trump after he lost and couldn't be bothered to sign up to his blog.)

Hasbeen, re the media are all kids, not an adult among them.

I'm sorry to have to break this to you, but they are not getting younger, you are getting older.

Remember when you first realised how young policemen were getting? Then you noticed that doctors were looking far to young to have done all the necessary training. Then you realised the local mayor was younger than you. Then you were older than the prime minister? Where had all the adults gone?

Yes, by your standards the 'children' in the media today are gormless, especially if they don't stick to your views. But, I wonder, when you were a young man, what did the oldies of the day think of you - too young? Wet behind the ears? In the absence of social media (like the Forum) how would you have known?

Well said Cossomby, like the bloke who is a 100, he doesn't have a lot of old friends, now does he. Hassy is guilty of what many suffer from, looking at the past, their world, through rose coloured glasses, remembering and exaggerating the good, and forgetting all about the bad. For Hassy when he was a child, it was a picnic, a boys own adventure. In Hassy's memory no one really got shot, it was play acting, those who played dead simply got up in the afternoon and went off and sang songs around the campfire like all good children done in those days.