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Ireland's Catherine Connolly set to be president after rival concedes election

Connolly has garnered the backing of a range of left-leaning parties, including Sinn Féin, the Labour Party and the Social Democrats.

#Connolly 68, captured the imagination of many younger people and was backed by an alliance of #leftwing #opposition #parties in Friday’s election. … Connolly’s triumph is a humbling rebuke to the #centre-right #government.” #Ireland apple.news/AmN2bcI5OS1O... #CatherineConnolly

Leftwinger Catherine Connolly ...
Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide — Guardian US

Heather Humphreys concedes defeat after early vote tallies show insurmountable gap between candidates

Ahhhhh... This explains the latest #SouthPark episode! (And yeah, I'm not hip on everything spouted off by #techbros!) Also, it sounds like Thiel is describing #TrumpIsAFascist ! Curtailing individual freedoms? Halting innovation? Trump's doing a great job of doing that! 😱

Exclusive: #PeterThiel in talk on '#Antichrist' says he told #ElonMusk not to give #wealth to #charity

By Jeffrey Dastin
October 9, 2025

"Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the #GivingPledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to #charity.

"In transcripts and audio of lectures given by Thiel and shared with Reuters, Thiel in September recalled how he recently warned Musk that his wealth would go 'to #LeftWing nonprofits that will be chosen by #BillGates.'

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"Thiel told the anecdote during a closed-door, four-part, eight-hour lecture series he gave during the past month in San Francisco, in which he discussed his concern that a figure he describes as an 'Antichrist' could emerge on the global stage.

"Though the German-American entrepreneur is famous as Vice President JD Vance's political benefactor and as a technology investor, betting early on Facebook and co-founding Palantir, he has recently devoted time to presenting his theological views.

"In particular, Thiel says he has grown wary that an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.

"That figure, who Thiel says is augured by the Christian bible, would curtail individual freedoms and halt humanity's shot at a future innovation that would avoid Armageddon, Thiel believes."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/peter-thiel-talk-antichrist-says-he-told-elon-musk-not-give-wealth-charity-2025-10-09/

#USPol #Billionaires #PayYourFairShare

#JDVance stated on October 15, 2025 in an episode of The #CharlieKirkShow:
" #Politicalviolence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left.”

In blaming left for #political #violence, JD #Vance ignores long-term trends

Since 1994, #rightwing #terrorist attacks have been seven times as common as #leftwing attacks

We rate this statement Mostly #False.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/oct/20/jd-vance/Trump-Charlie-Kirk-political-violence-left-right/

Vance blames left for political violence, omits long trends

A study said left-wing violence outpaced right-wing in the first half of 2025. The study found more right-wing violence in the preceding 30 years.

@politifact

The Rise of the Right is the Left's Fault - Stephen Fry - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PR5S4xhXQ

Interesting points, including, "The left would rather be right rather than effective." He also strongly makes the point that too many are ready to blame others, but never themselves.
Also discussed, the concept of people not wanting to feel uncomfortable.
And other things. It is a wide ranging discussion. Worth watching, I think.

#LeftWing #RightWing #CancelCulture #Wokeness #Media
#StephenFry

The Rise of the Right is the Left's Fault - Stephen Fry

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I'm having a new personal vendetta with #linkedin . Only posting #leftwing points there. Done by an LLM because fight fire with fire.

Example of today:
We're quick to innovate on technology, but why are we so slow to innovate on how we organize our people?

The traditional top-down corporate structure often feels like it's from a different century. I believe the future of work is more democratic, transparent, and equitable.

Imagine organizations where:

Value is shared more broadly with those who create it.

Decisions are made with input from those who are most affected by them.

Success is defined not just by a stock price, but by the health and sustainability of the entire organization—its workers, its community, and its environment.

This isn't a utopian fantasy. Co-ops, B-Corps, and forward-thinking companies are already proving that you can be both principled and profitable. They show that giving people real agency isn't a cost; it's your greatest competitive advantage.

It's time to stop seeing people as resources to be managed and start seeing them as partners in the mission. How can we start building more economic democracy within our existing systems?

#WorkplaceDemocracy #BCorp #Leadership #Innovation #ESG

Yanis Varoufakis explains the monetary commons.

If we don’t take this opportunity to make a public good out of money again, Donald Trump and the crypto bros will take it with their stablecoins instead. The one who controls the money supply, controls the world.

It doesn’t need to be crypto, but it can be. The point is how the money is created and the dividends are paid out.

(Some disillusioned OG crypto bros might even hop on)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2PBQEFOtkkA

#leftwing #economics #monetarycommons

Monetary Commons Intro Video

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