Dave Thompson

History writer. Author of 'Casanova's Life & Times' and 'Casanova & Enlightenment'. Unaffiliated political and ideological eclectic. Teacher in a previous life.

[Dave Thompson @PadovaGozzi]

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[Femme @FemCondition]

Watch Dawn Hughes turn deeper and deeper shades of red as she realizes she's been snowed and Amber Heard is the abuser, but she's been called to testify the opposite.

Watch Amber Heard looking at Dawn Hughes like a child who knows they're caught in a lie.

#DARVO
#FalseAllegations

[Dave Thompson @PadovaGozzi]

@d_billaba @JerryBarnett

[Jeffrey Ketland @jeffreyketland]

@JerryBarnett Identity Politics states, in a nutshell,
• believe women
• believe ethnic minorities.

This contradicts the foundation of liberal democracy,
• believe evidence

[Phil Mitchell:Specialist Working With Abused Males @PhilMitchell83]

‘I didn’t suffer sexism or misogyny until I was prime minister’

“…the gendered insult became the go-to political weapon…”

Gendered insults don’t necessarily equal misogyny

If they do it’s misandry whenever a man is called a d**khead

https://t.co/obza2TsUaU

[Dave Thompson @PadovaGozzi]

@CathyYoung63 @JerryBarnett *reading

[Dave Thompson @PadovaGozzi]

@CathyYoung63 @JerryBarnett Much of this bigotry is derived from the same poisonous, activist ‘scholarship’ well. Helen Pluckrose is well worth reason on this.

[Phil Mitchell:Specialist Working With Abused Males @PhilMitchell83]

‘When the Abuser Is a Woman: Female-on-Female Child Sexual Abuse’

https://t.co/FKURPwKvSj

[Alexander Witpas @alexanderwitpas]

"Results indicated that mothers spanked more than fathers. (...)When examining both parents concurrently, only mothers’ spanking was predictive of child aggression."https://t.co/Fbpg5YJzOd

[Jerry Barnett @JerryBarnett]

In the Henry Nowak case the most important issue isn't the behaviour of the police at the scene or the fact that Farage is opportunistically using the event. The important issue is that the killer's brother played the race card.

Why did he play the race card? Because it shifted the power balance away from the victim. Why did it work? Because public servants have been taught that they need to be aware of their "implicit bias" and treat people differently based on their race.

In other words, public servants have been taught they should be racist.

The edifice of DEI and race sensitivity needs to be unwound. Race advisors should be fired. Racial equality, and not equity, should become the bedrock of public policy.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Non-replicable research gets cited more than replicable research. This is consistent with what I call Steve’s Law: Boring findings and non-PC findings are more replicable than interesting or PC ones.

https://t.co/PNnu2ZzVky

[Dave Thompson @PadovaGozzi]

@NickCohen4 Is the public mood starting to turn against the cheeky chappie? And is he now scrambling around to find ways to shore up his political base?

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

‼️ZELENSKYY: None of the Russian drones or missiles can be made without components from Western countries.

“None of these drones or types of Russian missiles can be made without parts brought in from other countries. In each of these strikes, whether they realize it or not, there's still the involvement of those working for Russia, those funding Russia, those helping it dodge sanctions and search for not just a few, but thousands of components, without which Russian military production would just stop. Five Kalibr missiles need 145 of these parts. 33 Iskander missiles need 1,122 parts. 650 attack drones of different types need more than 17,000 parts, without which making them is just impossible” - Ukrainian president on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.

[Lisa Britton @LisaBritton]

Although you can argue that the higher rates of abuse is due to mothers being around their children more, it is wild that the assumption is that fathers are far more likely to abuse their children when it’s just not true. I believe the misguided beliefs in society about who can be perpetrators puts children in danger, and more awareness to break the wrong beliefs should be a top priority.

[James L. Nuzzo, PhD @JamesLNuzzo]

@rhettullmann Gamma bias
https://t.co/NuW5SE52ID

[Dr John Barry @MalePsychology]

@JamesLNuzzo 90% of deaths were male, but they obscured that fact in the graph, and instead emphasised the number of women who died??

Are they actually trying to win a prize for the best / worst example of gamma bias?

[James L. Nuzzo, PhD @JamesLNuzzo]

Earlier this year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released data on fatal occupational injuries in 2024. Again, the Bureau didn't split the data by sex in the charts. Again, in text (not shown below), the Bureau emphasised the number of women who died.
Here are the numbers for 2024, which are found in a table toward the end of the press release:
Women: 413 fatal occupational injuries
Men: 4,182 fatal occupation injuries

[Dave Thompson @PadovaGozzi]

@FionaParker66 @paulmasonnews https://t.co/MpDLjLXcq5

[ManKind Initiative @ManKindInit]

Phillip Rees suffered from terrible domestic abuse from his wife Susan Rees for 42 years.

23 month suspended sentence - two year restraining order. No deterrent. No justice.

If the genders were reversed, the sentence would not have been suspended. https://t.co/r4udQya1Lq

[Dave Thompson @PadovaGozzi]

@FionaParker66 @paulmasonnews https://t.co/QWYH1CEFBp

[ManKind Initiative @ManKindInit]

Phillip Rees suffered from terrible domestic abuse from his wife Susan Rees for 42 years.

23 month suspended sentence - two year restraining order. No deterrent. No justice.

If the genders were reversed, the sentence would not have been suspended. https://t.co/r4udQya1Lq

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

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