Socialism with a touch of communism
Brigid Purcell is a woman and she is one of the youngest candidates but that doesn't exclude her from the same scrutiny as her competitors. Feedback can only help a candidate improve both now and in future elections.
Purcell has a few videos and here are the key points. People Before Profit present themselves as socialists but some of their ideas are veering on communism, like this comment about a state-owned construction company:
Brigid contested the by-election in 2021 and therefore she could have been more well prepared and registered her domain name long ago. She failed to take the key domain names BrigidPurcell.com and BrigidPurcell.ie and now Daniel Pocock, a rival candidate, has got them.
Like other candidates, Brigid hopes to claim public funds to pay for the posters she is putting up all over Dublin Bay South. The posters promote social control media accounts, therefore, People Before Profit add to the net worth of Silicon Valley billionaires. That is a huge contradiction.
Here Brigid talks about being a minimum wage worker and I'm sure these comments resonate with every minimum wage worker throughout Ireland:
Check out Daniel Pocock's recordings of such behavior in voluntary organizations affiliated to Google and other difficult environments.
Nonetheless, by using social control media for her campaign Brigid is giving power to billionaires in Silicon Valley. Brigid is giving power to a lot of privileged white men who work in the social control media ecosystem. Every minute Brigid spends on social control media is unpaid work adding to the share price of Meta and X. Every friend she connects with through these platforms increases the value of those networks and their share prices based on the theory proposed by Metcalfe's law.
Therefore, by building up social control media, People Before Profit are augmenting the capital accounts of billionaires. Those same billionaires have the power to manipulate their message in very subtle ways or in a very big way at any time. Artificial Intelligence is only going to make it more difficult.
Daniel Pocock is the only candidate building a campaign without social control media. Vote [1] Daniel POCOCK.
Brigid goes on to ask more young people to register to vote in the region where they live and not where their parents live:
Mr Pocock encourages young people to go a step further beyond enrolling to vote: it is vital for young people to get involved in election campaigns, to attending hustings, to organize events for the candidates on campus, to invite the more unusual candidates, to attend party branch meetings as guests and ask the candidates difficult questions. Don't rely on the reports that appear on the television, news web sites and social control media as all of those things are very carefully scripted by public relations experts.
Here we can see Mr Pocock at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in 2018. He speaks about social control media giving people like Brigid Purcell a false sense of empowerment:
Pocock is willing to go to the Dáil and ask the difficult questions about artificial intelligence, the economy and jobs. To solve housing problems in Dublin, we need to find win-win situations where landlords and tenants both have some positive outcomes.
The two main questions people ask Mr Pocock when he is canvassing are "are you related to the rugby player, Senator David Pocock?" and ...
you asked: "when are the posters coming down?"
Vast sums of public money are wasted on these posters which encourage people to visit social control media pages controlled by foreign billionaires.
Voters have a choice. If you would like to vote for original ideas to manage the rules of engagement between artificial intelligence, our businesses and our jobs then please Vote [1] DANIEL POCOCK and remember to follow Daniel Pocock's blog at DanielPOCOCK.com
