Bobby. wrote on May 26^th, 2026 at 6:45am:


So - tax the rich, to fund policies to eradicate entrenched  poverty - is your definition of 'cultural Marxism'?

Of course everone has his own idea of "fair taxation" ...which is why democracy is im-ploding amidst c-o-l and housing crises.

Wake up.

The silly part is currency-issuing governments don't need your 'taxpayer' money, by definition.

But you prefer to argue over what is "fair" taxation, because you think the government's budget is like your household budget.

Deplorable.

thegreatdivide wrote on May 26^th, 2026 at 1:24pm:



It's when they go after the little guys like me that I disapprove of.   

Dnarever wrote on May 26^th, 2026 at 8:48am:



Well, you ARE a duck, so if there are no peas, you are not seeing nuffin'. You pride yourself on being of severly restricted comprehension and understanding, so nobody is surprised that you are waddling in oblivion.
When was a duck NOT a stupid fowl???

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
A Marxist Duck.
Er... does anyone have any peas??

(and so on for years)



Seriously, duckwit - give us a sign that you are not a completely lost, befuddled waddling little pensioner.

What has socialism brought us?

Who on this forum voted Labor?


https://cairnsnews.org/2026/05/27/salvos-warn-20-per-cent-of-aussies-eating-from...




By cairns news

May 27, 2026


91% skipping meals, 60% eating expired food and 1 in 5 eating from bins

New Salvos Report exposes Cost-of-Living Emergency for Australia’s Poorest

The Salvation Army today issued an urgent warning that Australia’s cost-of-living crisis is spiralling into an emergency for the nation’s most marginalised people, with a new report revealing nearly one in five (19%) people surveyed saying they had eaten from bins and three in five (60%) saying they had eaten expired or spoiled food in the past 12 months.

A man with short grey hair and glasses, smiling while wearing a grey suit and blue tie, standing outdoors near a building.
Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese not worried about Labor’s budget carnage and wasteful spending on overseas countries and costly, inefficient renewable power
The new report surveyed 4,400 Australians seeking emergency relief support from The Salvation Army and revealed widespread food insecurity and severe financial distress, with 91% saying they skipped meals in the past 12 months and almost one third (32%) saying this happened daily.

The report also found one third (35%) said they survived on only one meal a day and 67% said they watered down food or drinks to make them last longer.

One community member who received support from The Salvation Army said, “We starve, it’s that simple. We drink water because it fills us up. We walk a bit to take our minds off this horrible life we are in, and we beg whoever we can for help.”

Another community member simply said they “go without food, find thrown-out food, look in bins” in order to survive.

Children are increasingly bearing the brunt of the crisis, with 35% of parents saying their children had gone to school hungry and almost 6 in 10 (59%) households with school-aged children saying kids had missed school because families could not afford transport costs in the past 12 months.

Dnarever wrote on May 27^th, 2026 at 9:16pm:



You are an unlettered, ignorant little idiot in a duck suit, duck. You have no grasp of anything beyond your local bowling club and pensioners' lunch specials.

You are making, ludicrously, a virtue out of your total ignorance and parochial narrow-mindedness.

Marla wrote on May 28^th, 2026 at 6:52am:



I was only ever without a job twice and I never received any dole money.

Centrelink over here has a book called -

1001 reasons not to pay you a penny.

Bobby. wrote on May 28^th, 2026 at 8:40am:

Marxism’s claims were vast. As Engels declared at Marx’s graveside in 1883, his friend had achieved for society what Darwin had achieved for nature – the discovery of history’s “law of development”, whose unfolding was as inevitable as a law of physics. But Marxism went even further, combining scientism with 19th-century Romanticism’s apocalyptic imagination.

Marx had said that capitalism would be “shaken” (erschüttert) by its mounting contradictions; when editing Das Kapital’s third volume, Friedrich Engels changed it to “collapsed” (zusammengebracht). Capitalism’s destruction was a scientific certainty, he claimed, for it was “racing to ruin like a locomotive whose jammed safety valve the driver is too weak to open”.

From this emerged Marxism’s moral absolutism. Apocalyptic visions had long envisaged a final struggle between the forces of God and the forces of Satan; Marxism translated that struggle into secular form. Those who opposed “scientific socialism” were worse than merely mistaken: by breaking the higher law of history, they became enemies not just of the proletariat but of humanity. The distance from that to Lenin’s demand for the extermination of “noxious bourgeois vermin” was alarmingly short.

It was that same moral and psychological absolutism that resurfaced, long after communism’s collapse, in the secular religion proclaimed by An Inconvenient Truth. But its apocalypticism, although also clad in scientific garb, does not belong to the 19th century’s rationalist certainties; it comes suffused with the Middle Ages’ prophetic terrors.
Ergas