<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:06:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@davideastman/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[64.9% of Iranians Want to Remove the Emblem of Allah from the Flag of Iran]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to the survey Iranians’ attitudes toward political systems, 46.2% of Iranians want to bring back the Shah-era Iranian flag with the lion in the center. Another 18.7% prefer the three-colored]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@davideastman/649percent-of-iranians-want-to-remove-the-emblem-of-allah-from-the-flag-of-iran</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@davideastman/649percent-of-iranians-want-to-remove-the-emblem-of-allah-from-the-flag-of-iran</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:08:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLHJ2wPMWcYakteDu5uCGG8TDgxfZTeXHQEGpoqPnPx7q3Fgfd86s2L7epdxQgvZyg8wz9VwACh8htN6cEShoQiMSCLgTiAeaEy4ZhbmZpPcmx66yi6kn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is a Revolution Against the Islamic Republic Possible in Iran?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I watched an interview with Iranian blogger Maziar Mian, who believes that the war may lead to the fall of the Islamic Republic and the rise to power of the democratic opposition. He suggests that the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@davideastman/is-a-revolution-against-the-islamic-republic-possible-in-iran</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@davideastman/is-a-revolution-against-the-islamic-republic-possible-in-iran</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:23:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQ17jaSm4XTrVn6dirsXarYSqWy6szak4pr2atUPAvSzH7rphKFP4Tg9Atfh8MYvuG3F73zt2Khcy7AQtBhVZjLMwFVuvKWJp3BD6ntX6XGATf1a89PgWeS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption watchdog clears Javier Milei over LIBRA crypto scandal]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @justmythoughts/corruption-watchdog-clears-javier-milei by @davideastman.A libertarian in words and in deeds?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-138714/@davideastman/corruption-watchdog-clears-javier-milei-hive-138714</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-138714/@davideastman/corruption-watchdog-clears-javier-milei-hive-138714</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-138714]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:33:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libertarians On: Social Welfare]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @ancapelijah/dsvoxnvm by @davideastman.Libertarians support all sorts of solutions to social issues, except those that involve coercion]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-138714/@davideastman/dsvoxnvm-hive-138714</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-138714/@davideastman/dsvoxnvm-hive-138714</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-138714]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 11:37:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libertarians On: Bigotry and Woke-ism]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @ancapelijah/libertarians-on-bigotry-and-woke-ism by @davideastman.Libertarians tend to dislike both 'bigotry' and 'woke-ism,' since both are based on judging people as collectives]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-138714/@davideastman/libertarians-on-bigotry-and-woke-ism-hive-138714</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-138714/@davideastman/libertarians-on-bigotry-and-woke-ism-hive-138714</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-138714]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 11:17:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate Scientists Are Less Trusted Than Scientists in General, Global Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new global study of nearly 70,000 people in 68 countries reveals that climate scientists are generally trusted less than scientists overall — a difference known as the “trust gap.” This gap varied by]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/climate/@davideastman/climate-scientists-are-less-trusted</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/climate/@davideastman/climate-scientists-are-less-trusted</guid><category><![CDATA[climate]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 06:56:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/NTy4GV6ooFRmaCXZ8UYgPhoud1kjiNX8QokLEZtbBKLuLWQ9yt7K3o4C2PT9kHJeiTcw7ZkdNpdyQjFNXFMHEJSDPMwv6QuN9kSvWv6w7xRLApuPbpF7s6frTmGTMJerhqZYCVHc4VVXH62zoSUBZ8cyRghRS48He6u9kRGi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Report Reveals Alarming Scale of Censorship Through Social Coercion. The Concept of Freedom-Restricting Harassment Introduced]]></title><description><![CDATA[The suppression of free speech does not always come from the state. It sometimes arises through social mechanisms that pressure individuals into silence. In some countries, this form of social coercion]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/society/@davideastman/freedom-restricting-harassment-frh</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/society/@davideastman/freedom-restricting-harassment-frh</guid><category><![CDATA[society]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 15:14:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQ17jaSm4XTrVn6dirsXarZ2MWfm6WQzbazUjjszk2tPedJhagvZ4fKZWFt23wyvvs6cpZJ7v87PgTDNkBz8dUmzywTxSJk3UBJsZcKCujAtwCSPa1wXjmx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian War Machine Runs Out of Resources]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russia managed to seize less than 3,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in 2024 - about the size of Luxembourg. The cost was 150,000 Russian soldiers killed, which is 10 times more than losses]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/war/@davideastman/on-the-brink-of-exhaustion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/war/@davideastman/on-the-brink-of-exhaustion</guid><category><![CDATA[war]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 06:53:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQ17jaSm4XTrVn6dirsXasAwJfZonVeUr4odsCrouGRpRqQfeJNSg8PpJbAHFdA5NShi6Y6j1XNTjsT2gYPDQEZiSDapGtygd7yuBGez5Pozaku7CGkiPPU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[7 Reasons Why Wokeism Is a Dangerous Authoritarian Ideology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wokeism Is Anti-Individualist Collectivism emphasizes the group over the individual, and Wokeism falls under this definition as it sorts people into groups based on race, gender, or sexuality, and treats]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/society/@davideastman/wokeism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/society/@davideastman/wokeism</guid><category><![CDATA[society]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:33:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FUkUE5bzkAZT3HzV5tJDiU2ik81PCd4JCyhWnRcDN8XJsVFY3UNB8DCSkEHDsALtmThhuqn3kqVEBmjYh1Dah5JHd6LoN7Ujapwh3UKNbHpwsLHx2onttgYz1PHTeFYSogzdat3mSmMBZv5Fu6FmkQBZBXB342HomrP8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Libertarian Ideas Helped Build a Free Economy in the Ruins of Post-Soviet Georgia in the 2000s]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently read an insightful book, Why Georgia Has Succeeded, by Larisa Burakova, which explores the reforms Georgia undertook in the 2000s. 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White influencer ‘identifies as Korean’ after getting eye surgery - Metro Neither can surgery on the genitalia make you a woman. But it doesn’t make you a bad person either.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/society/@davideastman/rethinking-trans-identity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/society/@davideastman/rethinking-trans-identity</guid><category><![CDATA[society]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[davideastman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 03:40:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQ17jaSm4XTrVn6dirsXasBHc9PmWT8yNBz8PD2TZ26GYCbZG4xuriMV9HZNKQMaSPbc41i72iec3MLgvVLT6gMZi928J2UuFi1Ad3KHQbRZWkLFLZ8qp5t?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>