Magic Buns
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Magic Buns
@MagicBuns69
Half nutty, half annoying, fully independent.






A shrinking, ageing population is a Very Bad Thing. And this trend is the real reason our welfare bill & public services feel unaffordable for our population. Immigration is the only thing that has been keeping us afloat. Like it or not.









Building on our beautiful green spaces is wrong on every level. 🌳



Debunking the Data That Claims to Show Most Political Violence Comes From the Right: There's a lot of funky data out there being compiled by nakedly partisan organizations and spread as though it's factual by the liberal media. My column: batya-us.com/p/debunking-th…








When a white supremacist gunned down 10 black people in a Buffalo supermarket in 2022, the NYT's @Jbouie and other liberals blamed mainstream conservatives for "inspiring" the anti-immigration views in whose name that shooter killed. Bouie claimed in the NYT that the killer's manifesto was "virtually indistinguishable from mainstream Republican rhetoric," and conservatives thus bear blame. Liberals wanted Jack Smith to prosecute Trump for the violence on January 6 based on this same theory: that Trump "inspired" the January 6 violence because his speech "inspired" that violence and they acted in the name of Trump's repeated claim that the 2020 election was stolen. The Right also embraces this theory, as they're doing now: blaming liberals and Trump critics for last night's WHCD's shooter because the would-be assassin's manifesto shows he acted in the name of common anti-Trump sentiments (ironically, last night's shooter actually did read and liked many liberal statements, including those of Jamelle Bouie, Wil Stancil and other partisan liberal luminaries). All of this is dumb. Words are not violence. You're not responsible for someone's violent acts because they share some or even all of your views. The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that preserving the distinction between words and violence is vital for basic conceptions of free speech (see Claiborne v. NAACP (1982). You allowed to express opposition to open borders, and you're allowed to criticize the American President, even harshly, without being held responsible if some lunatic uses violence in the name of your views. Bouie in 2022:





