The purpose of #SocDems is to pacify the left. #ChangeMyMind.

This right here is (part of) the United Left Alternative and you absolutely love to see it - this feels like years in the making!

Soc Dems, Greens, Sinn Féin, and Independent (plus Labour and People Before Profit).

All united by the aim to get Catherine Connolly for President into the Áras and to keep FF/FG out! @CatherineGalway

#Ireland #IrishPolitics #UnitedLeft #LeftAlliance #ConnollyForPresident #Irish #SinnFein #PBP #Labour #SocDems #Green #IrishPresident #Waterford #Progressive #Left

@chongliss I think his Alan Partridge moment was when he said, "It's not a hanging offence," about blackface, which comes from Minstrel shows _and the era of actual lynching of Black people in the USA_

Qwhite astonishing.

#MastoDaoine #SocDems #IEPol #LiveLine

Larry Donnelly apparently asking the world at large, "Who amongst us hasn't done something massively racist?" in an attempt to defend Eoin Hayes TD.

#MastoDaoine #SocDems #IEPol

@HarriettMB Oh they know; but they are not prepared to let standing up against racism get in the way of parliamentary arithmetic. (If they boot out Hayes, they lose speaking rights, etc.)

Deeply cynical and gross.

#MastoDaoine #SocDems #IEPol

Day one back in the job as leader of the Social Democrats, and Holly Cairns starts the day as an apologist for racism. Cool cool cool.

#MastoDaoine #SocDems #IEPol

“Protect us.”

#FF #FG #SocDems #SF #Labour #PBP #GP #Ireland

Dans les débats autour des élections dans nos régimes „#démocratiques“ occidentaux mettent - bien que cela se comprenne - en évidence ce qu‘ils appellent la „menace d’extrême droite“ la „montée du #fascisme“ etc. Ce n‘est que la partie la plus visible du problème, car on ne parle pour ainsi dire pas du naufrage de la #social-démocratie et l‘absence d‘idée pour proposer une alternative à la séduction d’extrême droite (à la fois utile voire indispensable pour le capitalisme tardif) mais aussi rassembleuse pour tous celleux qui se retrouvent confortablement dans le #néolibéralisme promu par les #socdems et /ou l’extrême #centre depuis les années 80 du dernier siècle qui voit désormais l’extrême droite mieux défendre ce régime. Pourtant sans aller plus loin, car il faudrait bien une analyse approfondie qui nous a amené jusqu‘ici, on peut sans être prophète dire que les régimes en place, entre les #Scholz et #Macron, ou défunt des #Harris/Biden qui sont perdants, 1) en courant après les sujets chers des fachos - #immigration, #identité 2) en ayant rien à proposer que c‘est nous ou le chaos.
Ce n‘est pas que j‘ai de grandes espérances dans les partis, administrations et police qui nous gouvernent depuis que je suis né, mais constatant aussi que si on veut créer un cadre institutionnel différent qui permettrait au moins de respirer et aller vers quelque chose de plus vivable, les rapports de force sont très mauvais, voire divisés.
Une raison de plus pour ne pas attendre de grandes étincelles de la politique institutionnelle en général et de se préparer à agir et à protéger les plus vulnérables et plus visés localement, créer de bulles de respiration. La durée d’hibernation pourra être aussi longue que le temps qu‘il a fallu pour mettre en place cette merde et à pourrir un grand nombre de cerveaux.

Photo : Dans la cour de L‘envers du bocal, bar, QG alternatif et militant, centre de Poitiers, après le passage d‘un ou plusieurs nervis fachos décomplexés, qui ont mis le feu à la paillote dans la cour. Grâce à la vigilance, le feu a pu être éteint rapidement avant de faire plus de dégâts

#SocDems suspend Eoin Hayes for lying about sale of shares from Palantir linked to Israeli military https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/12/10/social-democrats-td-sold-shares-in-us-supplier-to-israeli-military-a-month-after-taking-council-seat/
And for more on how Palantir tech is employed by Israel in #Gaza https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nsa-palantir-israel-gaza-ai/

Photo: Cate McCurry

And Eoin is in! #DublinBaySouth #GE24 #Ireland #SocDems #SocialDemocrats #EoinHayes
https://mastodon.ie/@pete/113578349083523953

I am on the edge of my seat waiting for that 4th seat in Dublin Bay South. C’mon #EoinHayes #GE24 #Ireland #DublinBaySouth #SocDems #SocialDemocrats https://www.rte.ie/news/election-24/results/#/dublin-bay-south

A very good day for the #SocDems though not sure if it’ll be quite as good as looked possible earlier in the day. Let’s wait and see 💜 #GE24

Great performance from Hugo Mills here in Dun Laoghaire for #SocDems - Not quite enough to get elected but fifth is an impressive showing 💜 #GE24

Baby bump for the Soc Dems!

#GE24 tallies for #CSW (Cork South West) show Holly Cairns on 20% and increasing, and looks set to keep her Dáil seat.

https://mastodon.ie/deck/@clickhere/113568502803817905

#IrelandVotes #IEPol #MastoDaoine #SocDems

Social Democrats delaying the introduction of new more frequent and more reliable bus routes.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/removal-of-number-11-bus-route-expected-to-be-put-on-hold/a1410555607.html

#GE24 #SocDems #PublicTransport @SocDems #Dublin

@sourcerer people who claim "The Nazis were Left" should be booked for #HolocaustRelativism instantly, because the first people the #Nazis came after (after #Trans* and #nonbinary people) were #Communists and #SocDems!

Claiming otherwise just reveals the person saying so is a history-denying assclown!

@wdhughes @danimo @GottaLaff it's not about being "#AntiCapitalist" but like very #based thinks like mandatory #healthcare and #PaidSickLeave...

Shit that #Germany has since the 1890s (!!!) and was specifically enacted to curb the rise of #SocDems by taking away their popular demands...
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/112843501813018886

Don"t even get me started on like a mandatiry #LivingMinimumWage that gets adjusted per #inflation!

Posters. Necessary at such times of elections, but political parties should know better - about where you can hang them, sizes permitted, etc. in particular, came across posters across the m6 at Ballinasloe by #SocDems European candidate. Traffic doesn't need distractions at legal limit of 120kph. We have an awful record on our roads at the moment. I know it's likely over zealous team members but political parties have organisation. So, organise ffs. And get those posters down #socialDemocrats

"We’re debating […] dead moral questions, and for the same reason we always do: because that debate allows us to ignore the ones that might lead us to a different place than the celebration of our own liberal righteousness."

Fredrik deBoer, 2015, https://ianaxelanderson.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/fredrik-deboer-on-debating-dead-moral-questions/

#debate #debates #debating #righteousness #whiteness #coloniality #islamophobia #terrorism #israel #israelPalestine #israelApartheid #liberalism #liberals #USPol #issues #deBoer #SpotAndDiscard #TwoStates #Justice #progressists #socDems #conversation

@pvonhellermannn
Sorry for avoiding indicating that it was a citation from Matt at Vashti. I just corrected my error above.

Vashti "aims to pursue an ongoing inquiry into what it means to be a Jewish leftist".

Here is a piece by Jacob Engelberg: "Can film unteach Hasbara?" https://vashtimedia.com/2020/11/19/issues/review/can-film-unteach-hasbara/

"Alexandrowicz’s perhaps quixotic hope that images of the occupation might force ardent supporters of the Israeli state to question their ideological positions is dashed by Maia."

#images #video #liberals #progressists #progress #liberal #documentary #imagePower #propaganda #reputation #ethics #supremacy #fragility #unjustWars #war #ethnicCleansing #SocDems #grievability #watching #israelPalestine #Zionism #genocide #enlightment #PalestinianLivesMatter #Vashti