Without knowing the full facts that went to mitigation, one pleaded guilty and one refused to accept even the verdict of the jury.

Maybe an argument that this shouldn't matter, but then you get into a situation where nobody ever pleads guilty (like for murder).

Totally normal news articles rightly critical of the genocide are often full of comments from Ivory Coast flag emoji freaks agreeing but in a way that makes you go "oh no, not like that".

Same with this suprise that "institutions" are capitulating. Seems some people really bought the idea that these were somehow sacrosanct, despite all history showing otherwise.

Shouldn't be surprising I guess given many of them admired those hiding behind institutions as an excuse not to act.

This is 4chan becoming mainstream. /b/ was simultaneously full of pornography and outright hatred of women focused on them as "stupid" and "dishonest".
It's a key to radicalising young men - Al-Qaeda understood it as well as 4chan. Isolate them from love and it's easier to fill them full of hate.

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In addition we tell students that developing these skills in university will result in a wage premium. It's no surprise with that framing that they see a tool they can use (and figure they will use in work) that can do the job, so they figure out how to use it.

Workers in this case who ply their talents at building tools to kill and surveil other workers in a company founded for and explicit about that purpose.

The fields overseers were "workers" too, I suppose.

They know that it won't have anything near the support required, so they can hide behind other national govts

That's true for any assessment that's not an invigilated exam.

That said, teaching students that they can use ChatGPT as a source is madness. That's not even what the tool is for.

Ya, no way the government - who appoint the Garda Commissioner, the DPP, and all judges - could abuse that at all.

Ya, it's a former cllr.

I expect you'll find the trafficking element is less putting people in the back of a truck and more in the line of fraudulent paperwork for certain professionals, just given the person's non-politics work.

The decision comes down to the membership, for whom there'll be no ministerial perks. It will be harder to convince them.

Spare a prayer tonight for the put upon lawyers of the Spanish prosecutors office. The real victims in all this. Having to learn about transfer patterns in Dublin central on a no doubt otherwise pleasent Spanish weekend.

SF, SD, LAB coalition with C&S with Fianna Fáil is the best outcome for the left. Requires SD and Lab to rule out supporting FF/FG and have the sense to realise that the steeper path is the better one in the longer term.

Have to think some of that is a "Taoiseach" effect. Lots of people will vote for someone they don't like because "oh it's good to have a Taoiseach from the town" but then transfer to their actual preferred candidate.

It's absolutely what I see as a best case scenario, not a most likely one.

However if FF can't negotiate outside the duopoly they have a longer term problem. A party irrevocably tied to the hip of a party is no party at all. Would the proud Fianna Fáil "movement" stand for that?

Other factor is that FF at large, less so Martin, do not want to coalesce with Fine Gael. They want a separate life. If FF can only ever support FG and never the other side then their electoral appeal is limited and their negotiating power is lost totally.

Only works if SF biggest parties and SD, Greens, and Lab benefit bigly from geo concentration.

In that scenario FF alternative is coalition with FG (who crave opposition) supported in C&S by ragtag India and right wingers.

Either way is doom. Above is the easier path, you are "the moderator".

Broadleft partners gives MM cover for C&S. Give them a left priority each. Deliver it. Show a real difference in housing. Go back to the county early with the message: "We've shown you what we can do, let us get rid of Fianna Fáil and deliver."
Deliver the first left wing government. #ge24