daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦

I used to be a pacifist until the genocide in Bosnia

[Darren Johnson @DarrenJohnson66]

Populists on right and left are always making excuses for violent activists who are on their side, while condemning violent activists who are not on their side.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

"Most of the children treated by the practice...also had possible neurodevelopmental issues."

"None of them had a clear diagnosis of gender incongruence of gender dysphoria from a specialist."

"Harm has been happening in plain sight."

https://t.co/Qi1susFtNL

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

We owe those who serve the UK the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both.

I’ve spent my whole time in government making that case. Number 10 will not listen, so I am resigning as Minister for the Armed Forces.

Letter to the PM below.🫡🫡🫡⬇️⬇️

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@LizWebsterSBF @FlashHarry_69 @campbellclaret Without proportional representation how democratic is any election going to be with a 5 (in Scotland 6) party system?

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@elegationvain It is possible that we need to view adaption as that of a population with different combinations of genes and exposure to hormones resulting in a system that produces some individuals that won't reproduce but the population does reproduce more than a simpler system would.

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@elegationvain Sexual attraction is so complex and a product of brains that are complex for other reasons. Details like being attracted to a marker (culture specific). of the sex that you are attracted to Other people are attracted to those of their preferred sex who reject those markers.

[Aletheia @Aletheia_70]

Quick thoughts on the disruption & cancellation of @michaelpforan's lectures:
-This was not simply a protest. Protest is legitimate. Disruption of others' right to be heard is not (cf. Karl Popper).
-While the students are likely to have violated University conduct policies, the final responsibility lies with those providing security. Reports from those who were present suggest those who disrupted the lecture were admitted despite being recognised. Again maybe OK. This isn't the local pub. But the disruption should have been dealt with much more quickly.
-Like @dfkodsi I was initial disappointed at the cancellation. Feels like giving in. Have since found out more about further threats.
-This is against a background of more or less constant threats and disruption of events with a sex realist of sex-based rights. For over a decade now.
-Extensive attempts are being made to suggest that only half a dozen people were present. Video (and reports) suggest just over 30. But so what if it was 1,000 or just one. The audience deserve to be able to listen and discuss without having that sabotaged.

https://t.co/kNSsWt99Ly

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@rejserin @RichardDawkins Shouting out slogans so the speaker can't be heard is not free speech.

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@JournalistJill @NadiaWhittomeMP What was the comment being objected to?

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@JMLoe1 @GCPaulM @CrowdJustice They believe that the real world is created by language. Using words to affirm the material world undermines that and so harms the world they are constructing. Hence, for them, words themselves are discriminatory.

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@Mrtwobonclay changes in blood volume?

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@DavidKennerly @elegationvain @thepearjoseph Gender Critical

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@TomasJHeneghan @WomensSocIre The reason for the question is blood volume. Do you claim that the blood volume of males who identify as women shrink their blood volume when they change their pronouns? https://t.co/tNuhSgKF3x

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

There's a really easy way for students to avoid hearing stuff they don't like: don't go to the lectures. And a way to prevent disruption of academic freedom: kick the perpetrators off campus 👇🏽

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@Juvelad @michaelpforan You may disagree with him but why are you unable to condemn the attack on free debate that this represents?

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

The attempts to close down any meeting that doesn't conform to gender identity ideology is so routine now that there is a danger of forgetting what a dangerous authoritarian movement it is.

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

Due to escalating disruptive protests, I have decided to cancel the remainder of these lectures. This is deeply lamentable, but the disruption has undermined the academic nature of this series. Students shouldn't face bullying or harassment when attending academic events.

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@thames_pilgrim @RoisinMichaux They are scammed. A scam that promises what they really want to believe backed by official bodies. Before saying that they shouldn't have fallen for the scam, ask yourself whether in the course of your life you have ever fallen for a scam

[daivid barnsdale🇪🇺🇺🇦 @dejvid3]

@thames_pilgrim @RoisinMichaux autoandrophiles who dream an impossible dream of sleeping with an actual gay man getting angry not with the people who lied to them (and don't suffer the consequences) but with those who act exactly as expected 😢