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Ben Scallan 🇮🇪
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Ben Scallan 🇮🇪
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- Note: there's not one prominent Leftist anywhere in the West doing what Charlie Kirk did, i.e. issuing an open debate challenge to all comers and saying "Here's my view, I invite you to try and prove me wrong". None of them are willing to subject their views to that scrutiny.
- Flashback to Jimmy Kimmel laughing about Donald Trump being banned from all social media platforms, and joking about conservative apps being taken offline: "All over the internet, [conservatives] are screaming about being silenced. They won't be silent about being silenced."
00:00 - Replying to @Ben_ScallanSome will engage in certain debates with certain opponents under certain conditions - they'll pick and choose their battles. But none would show up to an overwhelmingly Conservative forum and say "Here's my worldview - if you disagree with me, come to the front of the queue and
- The main reason an EU army wouldn't work: nobody is willing to die for that stupid blue flag and its meaningless stars. Throughout history, Irishmen gladly fought and died for Ireland out of patriotic love of their motherland. Frenchmen did the same for France, Italians for
- A 'Yes' vote was supported by: - All three government parties - Almost all opposition parties - The €6bn-a-year NGO sector And with the exception of a couple of rogue Independents, poorly-resourced street activists and Aontú's Peadar Toibín, there was basically no 'No'
- Within 6 days in Ireland we've had 2 attacks in the capital that left multiple people stabbed or cut up. I remember when we used to have zero of those. Now we're having multiple in the same week. This must be that "progress" I've heard so much about.
- Replying to @elonmuskJournalist behind the article here - thanks for the share Elon. I'm currently working on a piece about the links between government censorship and Big Tech in Ireland, and it'd be great to discuss with you ahead of the Irish government's hate speech bill being passed.
- Cherry Orchard - Dublin South Central Family: 94% No, 6% Yes Care: 96% No, 4% Yes Holy cow.
- It goes without saying, but if a devout Muslim/Hindu/Jew with traditional values ran for President, none of the progressives attacking Maria Steen for her Catholicism would say one negative word about that person's religious beliefs, and they'd attack anyone else who did.
- Was it something I said? 🤔 🤷♂️"I THINK WE'RE DONE": Today journalists in the Leinster House press pool slammed People Before Profit TDs Ruth Coppinger and Paul Murphy for refusing to take a question from Gript's @Ben_Scallan, and ended the press event early in protest:
00:00 - Irish politics now being mocked by international parody websites.Ireland Declares Asking An Immigrant To Stop Stabbing You A Hate Crime buff.ly/3N2gR3F
- So let me just see if I have this right: a load of children and adults were stabbed in broad daylight at a school, and then mobs of opportunistic delinquent thugs and hoodlums ran riot through the streets robbing shoe shops, shooting fireworks at cops, and setting fire to theIreland's PM Leo Varadkar vows to crack down on free speech in response to the outrage over a migrant stabbing attack CJ Bill (22) will make it a criminal offense in Ireland to possess "hate speech" on your phone or computer
00:00 - Nutshell synopsis of Ireland's #Referendum2024 from what I can tell: - In the past year or so the Irish government came under intense pressure from the public over a variety of controversial issues, such as their liberal immigration policies and highly contentious hate speech
