[–] 1 point 2 months ago

Polling data. In head-to-head matchups Melenchon does worst against Le Pen (and it's not close, two-thirds would vote for Le Pen over Melenchon).

A candidate who needs to win against a far-right candidate needs to not alienate either centrists or the left. That means a strong core message focused on issues rather than ideology or radicalism. Biden/Harris didn't have a strong core message and alienated voters on the left, Melenchon is far too much of an idealogue and radical so he's alienated the centrists. A lot of centrist voters prefer Le Pen to Melenchon because Melenchon turned them away, not because Le Pen was so attractive.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not really sure it's about assuming they don't feel. I think humans in general just don't care if they do (most animals don't seem to care much for the feelings and/or suffering of the creatures they kill; it's not necessarily a human trait to not give a shit).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    From what I've seen the evidence does indeed support Letby's innocence. But I wanted to add, since you might find it interesting, that there was a similar case in the Netherlands. Nurse in question was Lucia de Berk (often named as Lucia de B. as that's how the papers referred to her). She was eventually exonerated after statisticians proved the evidence against her was nonsense. She was arrested at the bedside of her dying grandfather and spent 6,5 years in prison. Sadly she passed last year. The Dutch Wikipedia page on her even mentions Lucy Letby as a similarly flimsy case.

    There's a movie somewhat loosely based on her story: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800338/

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Unless you expect "murder" to become legal soon I don't feel like this is a very strong argument.

    I understand why Luigi did it and the CEO was a piece of shit, but I'm not sure legalizing the execution of these dickheads in the streets is the best answer here. I'd rather see laws outlawing what that CEO did.

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