@teokajlibroj.bsky.social
Leftist, Galway, Politics, Esperanto, Chess
Less than 100 people rally for Palestine after ceasefire is breached
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"grocery stores"
03.10.2025 19:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
PBP has copied Mamdani and is proposing state supermarkets in their alternative budget.
Unfortunately, they copied him so completely they forgot that no one in Ireland calls them "grocery stores."
I asked school secretaries & caretakers why they are going on strike @forsatradeunion.bsky.social
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Pakistanis in Ireland protest the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Imran Khan
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Thereโs a template from Milwaukee 100 years ago for politically and substantively successful socialist governance, but many leftist intellectuals of the time found the laser focus on quantity of city services to be problematically boring.
www.slowboring.com/p/learning-f...
I asked people at #DublinPride why the Pride Parade is important to them?
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"Get them out!" - Thousands march through Dublin in anti-immigration protest
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Americans in Ireland protest against Donald Trump
@aafireland.bsky.social #NoKings
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I asked trade union members why they joined a union?
@unitetheunion.bsky.social @siptu.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UIF...
A dozen pro-Palestine protesters call on the GAA to drop Allianz sponsorship
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I asked Irish people why they marched for #FreePalestine
youtu.be/5HxJpEnG_Bc?...
Why do people join People Before Profit?
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Ukrainians march through Dublin on 3rd anniversary of invasion
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Mi rigardus!
13.12.2024 11:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0What is this bizarre fantasy people have that murdering people in the street is super popular and should be some sort of political program?
Social media is not real life, ordinary people are horrified by this stuff.
I'm not saying I have the answers, but I haven't seen anyone propose a strategy for the Left other than 'avoid Fianna Fรกil & Fine Gael and hope that our vote will grow while in opposition.'
I don't think repeating the same strategy and hoping for a different result is good enough.
What good is it to tell someone struggling to pay rent that at least the Social Democrats keep their ideological purity by staying opposition?
'Sure things are hard now, but just wait 10-20 year and maybe then the Left will be strong enough to win power.'
If there is no left wing government around the corner, then it seems reasonable to enter a coalition to get the best that you can for your voters.
Remaining in opposition might be good for winning votes, but how does it help people struggling to find accommodation?
But then their popularity collapsed.
In 2020, SF, GP, LAB, SD & PBP gained 41.5% of the vote.
In 2024, they received 34%.
There are plenty of people who think the Left should remain in opposition and keep focusing on housing and eventually they will win enough votes to form a government.
This seemed like a good strategy after 2020, as there was a feeling that it was only a matter of time before Sinn Fรฉin would win
Now that the dust has settled from the election results, the question is where does the Left go from here?
The lesson from the Green Party seems to be that coalition will cost you support and it's better to remain in opposition if you want to win votes.
But then what? #GE24
Watched "The World's End" last night, it's pretty good but a step down from Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead (which isn't saying much as they're classics).
It has some laughs but the ending is a mess.
The final seat numbers, when counting concludes in ๐ฎ๐ช #ge24, are set to be:
Fianna Fรกil 48
Sinn Fรฉin 39
Fine Gael 38
Social Democrats 11
Labour 11
Ind Ireland 4
PBP-Solidarity 3
Aontรบ 2
Greens 1
100% Redress 1
Independents 16
Remember during the austerity years when people insisted FF/FG were doing austerity for purely ideological reasons? SF even had posters warning of a generation of public service cutbacks.
At the time I believed it, but once the budget was balanced, the cuts and privatisatons ended.
I'm no fan of FF/FG but they have massively increased spending and generally avoided tax cuts, which would make them unrecognisable as a right wing party to any European.
And that's without mentioning their social policies on immigration, abortion etc
I think the fact that this is considered so unlikely shows that FF/FG are not as right wing as a lot of the online left thinks/wishes they were.
02.12.2024 16:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0However, the two TDs who left in 2018 over opposition to abortion were able to maintain their personal support and were both re-elected. #GE24
- Carol Nolan, (2016) - 4,804 votes, (2024) 8,282 votes
- Peadar Toibin, (2016) - 9,442 votes, (2024) 7,563 votes
For comparison, here's how the Sinn Fรฉin candidate did in those constituencies in #GE24:
- Maria McCormack (Laois) - 4,914 votes
- Shรณnagh Nรญ Raghallaigh (Kildare South) - 7,241 votes
- Donna McGettigan (Clare) - 7,843 votes
How did the Sinn Fรฉin TDs who went independent perform in #GE24?
- Patricia Ryan, (2020) 10,155 votes, (2024) - 678 votes
- Brian Stanley, (2020) - 16,654 votes, (2024) - 6,782 vote
- Violet-Anne Wynne, (2020) - 8,987 votes, (2024) - 310 votes
