brightcircuit.bsky.social
Irish Computer Science Student | Socialist Republican and @pbp.ie Member | Free Palestine 🇵🇸 | Jet Lag Fan | Currently Reading The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 | He/Him
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Please let Lowry throw a strop and pull out.
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Dáil suspended until tomorrow. Fair play to the entire opposition (the real opposition, excluding Aontú). Now we need to keep this energy up for the entire Dáil term, not necessarily with continuous disruptions but definitely by constantly battering the government on their inevitable failures.
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No we have the same amount now, 2 each. Ruth Copinger is Solidarity/Socialist Party, not PBP.
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I suppose if you want someone to represent "the Right" more broadly he's the go-to because Aontú are so distinct from the other parties. Realistically us in PBP get disproportionate airtime too for the same but opposite reason, we're the most obviously different left wing group vs the centre left.
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You can't, it's a completely separate ecosystem.
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Sorry but borgirs were too expensive 😢
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Well the Mastodon equivalent. It uses ActivityPub like Mastodon which is fundamentally different from the AT protocol used here.
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Did they do that here too or are you getting confused about the shenanigans in Austria? They hardly did the same thing there after getting caught here?
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value must be being extracted as profit, so the company could afford and be forced to treat their employees better. There's no contradiction there, if anything socialism predicts that more people will fall into the ranks of unskilled labour over time due to increased automation.
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This type of post has come over from Twitter now? As a socialist who has had worked multiple unskilled jobs before getting my current one, unskilled labour objectively exists, requiring less education and training and being less productive. However, under capitalism if the job exists at all surplus
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Caves of Quds, Balatro, basically any Atlus game, Vampire Survivors, highly modded Ravenfield.
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Hamas, not Palestinians as a whole. But yeah arrest warrants have been issued for their leaders (well just Deif now because the other two are dead) for the crime against humanity of extermination, among other things.
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How do you mean? I'm talking about the undeniable core facts that have been confirmed by the UN, HRW and many others. The Israeli press did invent a handful of things but the core narrative of it being a murderous war crime is absolutely true.
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the most obvious example of which is the rampant October 7th denialism among people who are extremely pro-Palestine.
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Not necessarily. Like I hate FG but they have done the bare minimum on Palestine and I wouldn't say they want the destruction of Palestine tbf, but one of their councilors came out with this a few months ago www.irishtimes.com/politics/202.... People who think they're on the left engage in it too,
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You're the first Irish politician as far as I'm aware to be (correctly) labelled a transphobe by bsky.app/profile/asuk.... It's good to know she's keeping up with goings on over here.
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Hi Aaron, it's been two days of nothing now. Aside from the trust and safety aspects of your flip-flopping on this (trans people apparently don't deserve those) does it really make business sense to force some of your most active and passionate users off the platform? They built this community.
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The idea that people actually follow all on starter packs is deranged. The only one I did the on was 404 media but that's only because there's like 6 of them lol. It should be disabled on any packs over 10 accounts long.
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HTS' official stance now seems to be that they will respect minorites and treat them equally as Syrians. They're obviously not secularists but they seem to have gone more heavily into Syrian nationalism than Islamism recently bsky.app/profile/char.... If you believe them that is.
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Wow, I was fully on the nothing ever happens train up to now but this is the clearest indicator yet that they might actually take Damascus. God help the Syrian people, no matter who wins.
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Yeah, there's a clear lack of class analysis. People are blaming him and other executives as individuals when it's the shareholders and their broader class who perpetuate the problem. Individual terrorism or murder won't fix anything because they'll just be replaced.
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Now this is posting.
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Why do liberals feel the compulsive need to support equality before the law? I'm not even a liberal but come on man, it's a core part of the worldview.
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No, even a suppressed .22 pistol will cycle reliably youtu.be/eHgTC1ZPyc8?.... As I said in another reply I wonder if the killer was using very low pressure ammo to be as quiet as possible.
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Yeah, it doesn't actually do anything. We have no information yet so it could be an emotional/personal thing but if it was political or ideological it won't make a difference. Trotsky had a good piece on this www.marxists.org/archive/trot...
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Hm, those don't look like normal jams if it's failing to cycle every time. Maybe very low pressure/power rounds without enough energy to cycle the bolt were used to be as quiet as possible?
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Castets is the only choice now. If Macron won't appoint her he should resign.
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Target Down. Well done 47, now head towards an exit.
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No young people are using Facebook though.
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The environment and experience is obviously much better than the other place but the decentralized potential is even more exciting. Every new detail I learn about atproto is fascinating, when I get the time over Christmas I'm definitely going to sit down and read all the documentation.
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Fully presidential. From wiki: The President and Minister of National Defense are in charge of the entire military establishment, maintaining civilian control of the military.
Presidential systems are idiotic.
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What a goofy guy. Seriously though, who could've seen it coming that the man who openly admires Park Chung Hee didn't like democracy?
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If we're always going to be factional it's better to have open, organized factions than having them hidden. Ideally the socialist party would join too but I can't see that happening. It's still a fully coherent party though, unless you think FFG, Labour etc don't have competing wings inside them.
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Oh no I agree with you that Solidarity is purely a front, you can't actually join it. RISE is not a party though, it's an organisation inside PBP, basically an officially recognized faction. I agree PBP was originally an SWP front but with the other networks there now it's much broader than that.
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Solidarity isn't a real party (just a front group), it's actually the Socialist Party. RISE isn't a party at all but a network inside PBP, Paul is a PBP member.
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In the Europeans (not this time because I managed to get her to properly transfer left) my mam went PBP, Aontú, Labour, FG, FF lmao.
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More of a drop was predicted, although they are running too many candidates with too little of a local base for that kind of vote. Labour are on similar but have local party apparatuses and are more transfer friendly (for the center right). The Green vote will be heavily diluted.
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The Socialist Party I assume you mean? Yeah, the SP seems to be half abandoning the Solidarity front name. I don't know what the solution is though because it wouldn't make any sense to contest the same constituencies when we agree on 95% of things but a merger is also never happening.