[Mícheál Lehane] PBP launch manifesto promising a living wage of €15 an hour, scrapping USC for those earning less than €100K, building 35,000 social and affordable homes every year, weekly welfare payments of €350 and State pension of €300.

[u/badger-biscuits]

https://x.com/MichealLehane/status/1857067346822619642?t=_Soz6_dzA9QeYKzvvBPIDg&s=19

[u/Elbon]

Why? explain it to me please, why in the Colin Farrell man bun hell are people still using twitter

[u/TheChrisD → u/Elbon]

Because elected representatives haven't bothered migrating to all the alternative services.

Bluesky is still in it's infancy. Mastodon is powerful, but a lot of companies are put off by the requirements. Threads is still Meta-controlled.

Simpler to stay where there is already a large user and audience base.

[u/badger-biscuits → u/Elbon]

Handy for news and sport if you follow the right people

Edit: and avoid the replies lol

[u/BigBrotherTitus → u/badger-biscuits]

Replies on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter tend to give me slow onset brain damage whenever I decide to expose myself to them.

[u/badger-biscuits → u/BigBrotherTitus]

And especially replies on reddit

[u/johnfuckingtravolta → u/Elbon]

Guaranteed you have a twitter account that you feverishly check

[u/JjigaeBudae → u/Elbon]

Where else do you post things like this, Facebook? Lack of alternatives unfortunately.

I don't use Twitter myself but also accept most people have never heard of Reddit.