<?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>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:41:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@jacobcwitmer/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What Would The Founding Fathers Do? #YouTubeBoycott]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's a link to the portion of a YouTube video where Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro discuss "alternative media platform" censorship (exactly 34 minutes in, in case the "leap" function]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freespeech/@jacobcwitmer/what-would-the-founding-fathers-do-youtubeboycott</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freespeech/@jacobcwitmer/what-would-the-founding-fathers-do-youtubeboycott</guid><category><![CDATA[freespeech]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2018 19:11:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eJLMzcNBQLJ5seFkteqAAb1qB1FBp6d5b9G?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Google Thinks is Relevant To A Search for "Freedom Strategy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[What Google thinks is relevant to a search for "freedom strategy"(depicted in the following image) is mostly individuals and small companies selling services that have nothing to do with]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/what-google-thinks-is-relevant-to-a-search-for-freedom-strategy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/what-google-thinks-is-relevant-to-a-search-for-freedom-strategy</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 10:30:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WTySVi815wTBS1cviU2Mho5Jm3v8vrHVM6n87BXHkWp9rgwveJ6n2hs73SPejEDoW3bNSVYvZmioNte6J25nWkydAc7sX8GaJPfYkwYDu4qUca7KUobYHFvcUki88xapqbhQsqcK9LfbegwiKZVDcTWYo2P8bRXYkW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump and his Cheerleaders Appear to be Incapable of Intellectual Honesty and Philosophical Analysis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The above Trump campaign survey is online at: Of course, the dickless assholes who have turned America into a totalitarian shithole then ask for money, so they can keep raping us all in the ass: I'd be]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jacobcwitmer/trump-and-his-cheerleaders-appear-to-be-incapable-of-intellectual-honesty-and-philosophical-analysis</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jacobcwitmer/trump-and-his-cheerleaders-appear-to-be-incapable-of-intellectual-honesty-and-philosophical-analysis</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:18:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/QVdSJhgNm7s4n4Kd1rQJaMSfV24DQSM1BHVmQXkxgLo3NaoftkmenaDgXce8xpRBwRoWbPocU94R8xiyPxnY6M8t9ttbj2NZGw7giVyHNnktNeZPCZmUcrCJiH3L9j5XRBCTuzMAnEXcWkpMTck9kGPHgAC7piqTVjgQgrZ1D4CtyLLqrp2qSSA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's Damascene Conversion]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Christian mythology, the apostle Paul converts from being an oppressor to being a Christian dissident. In Google's story, they convert in the opposite way: from "Don't Be Evil," to, well, "Evil." A]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jacobcwitmer/google-s-damascene-conversion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jacobcwitmer/google-s-damascene-conversion</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:50:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FUkUE5bzkAZVVKmXhtvgKqwbwBkEW2Zw4TQ1mz83Aa3Y4R51rszD6z9XAFf1xV36sJU9efFELST6JHiLNYCYFACmtyyphzFdLkgN2aHYDpMmzziwH2fCRXjTUuWsFc3o7U574q5vcosmKvGUrDBoESiCPydCR22Qyo9G?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Libertarianism Fails: Disunity; Infighting; Political Relinquishment]]></title><description><![CDATA[This essay assumes you are, in the most general terms, libertarian. If that's not a safe assumption, then the tone is going to seem harsh. That said, the harsh tone is warranted, because our society is]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jacobcwitmer/why-libertarianism-fails-disunity-infighting-political-relinquishment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jacobcwitmer/why-libertarianism-fails-disunity-infighting-political-relinquishment</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:30:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UondJxcjVaienfhVaNb7LJVWG6e787gaJdZY8bUVjkEvpPQNVCbCmdZK5EVQYBhgrkE1PubbtJE3fFHLsMKgZ2tSpiLDBkzgsAGst4F1i1gi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Politics: the Dunning-Kruger Electorate and Sociopathic Politicians]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cognitive biases are "natural tendencies of human brains to perceive a situation in a certain way, irrespective of what a proper, logical, rational interpretation of the evidence shows." It's important]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychology/@jacobcwitmer/u-s-politics-the-dunning-kruger-electorate-and-sociopathic-politicians</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychology/@jacobcwitmer/u-s-politics-the-dunning-kruger-electorate-and-sociopathic-politicians</guid><category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:24:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biology Professor Accused of "Racism" and Receiving Death Threats for ...Teaching Biology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Above: Biology Professor Bret Weinstein explains how he was "run off campus" by a mob of angry, stupid, History-illiterate Marxist students because he refused to vacate campus when "social]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/biology-professor-accused-of-racism-and-receiving-death-threats-for-teaching-biology</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/biology-professor-accused-of-racism-and-receiving-death-threats-for-teaching-biology</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2017 09:08:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e9ZacaGcn3u3DKvi8hivJMiuJbwdqU626ZU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA["Time For Academics To Shine" in the Battle for Free Speech?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's my response to this article by the president of Edelman, PR, Richard Edelman (which is a response to University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer's recent comments on free speech): It would be]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/time-for-academics-to-shine-in-the-battle-for-free-speech</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/time-for-academics-to-shine-in-the-battle-for-free-speech</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2017 11:10:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/5ShzsKnKF7vqjwxfz8GNQQU7Rv6mDu9Mbhf9eZ576rpvJwR5JgPymoAqedTusXsMXeBMJtEp88N2t86nVGtgiKKSb5DoiikUZ3WtQUpwbunszpQ4Jc3RsBjzaCnzkWw4p1G4kRqPKp5SmQE1R3FrAuBU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is America Racist? A Reply to the Alleged "Double-Standard" of Kathy Griffin...]]></title><description><![CDATA[The entire debate illustrated in the prior cartoon boils down to the question "is there still systemic racism in US law?" If one "side" in that debate is correct, then the above is]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jacobcwitmer/is-america-racist-a-reply-to-the-alleged-double-standard-of-kathy-griffin</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@jacobcwitmer/is-america-racist-a-reply-to-the-alleged-double-standard-of-kathy-griffin</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:51:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EEEoA8oLaAxvDZG9qYrsSvDqYeABF1GqkXYm2VenBk4QE9Yfwm5wXxb2ADSmry3xVrLyLXt369a33GoXpoNFnhARe534qbHeqLv67HWnFD6LLwawCUoDnNNN5mTkBy7itRctrmHq9xFG4smfwdcWi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Libertarians Wanted Liberty They'd Have It]]></title><description><![CDATA[LANGUAGE WARNING: What I'm writing here sounds like "burble"(mathematician John Nash's term for "algebra" or "symbolic systems that don't clearly map to reality") or]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/if-libertarians-wanted-liberty-they-d-have-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/if-libertarians-wanted-liberty-they-d-have-it</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2017 18:49:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the Pope Totalitarian?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pope recently spoke out against small-L libertarianism (the generally-defined political philosophy of liberty). The Pope is a totalitarian, and religion, in general, is totalitarian in its goals. If]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/libertarianism/@jacobcwitmer/is-the-pope-totalitarian</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/libertarianism/@jacobcwitmer/is-the-pope-totalitarian</guid><category><![CDATA[libertarianism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2017 15:21:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBS5wvERDA3ZF4P2WKQy2VoZZet1QV2UesnzzpsPQ9offxFLXPt8fD2cVTsA1djAiVNJUBpspC3ZNKWMEoy7x5DSG65j4z1iruMjWETu2TqajGwGPMSnVL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[America: The Idea That Humans Should Not Be Subject To Parasitism]]></title><description><![CDATA[image: a Cuckoo chick in the process of killing its host parents' chicks, a part of brood parasitism The Economist, author, and philosopher Doug Casey has said that America is an idea, not a border drawn]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/america-the-idea-that-humans-should-not-be-subject-to-parasitism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/america-the-idea-that-humans-should-not-be-subject-to-parasitism</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:43:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EEEoA8oLaAxvDZG9qYrsSvDqYeABF1GqkXYm2Ven9DsqDxRjXr3NykCtBPbV4dvAeynrmVKvapdqosLq6yLTXR8SbmKwNwzrzPL65TEgZcvk7Qb2deUxekCYGhn6G4oHSWjhNKVC4zqRxPJ2uk3B4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Develops App to Fight Traffic Tickets on "Shark Tank"]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/pathocracy/@jacobcwitmer/man-develops-app-to-fight-traffic-tickets-on-shark-tank</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/pathocracy/@jacobcwitmer/man-develops-app-to-fight-traffic-tickets-on-shark-tank</guid><category><![CDATA[pathocracy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:25:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eENjUC7uDrd9Ej5iBRAbTtSumhiotyGWy2N?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why "conSERVILEtive" is a Better Term than "Cuckservative" & "Why I Am Not a Conservative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Friedrich Hayek first noted that conservatives were not friends of individual freedom, with his essay "Why I Am Not a Conservative," which originally appeared as the 13th and final chapter in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/conserviletive/@jacobcwitmer/why-conserviletive-is-a-better-term-than-cuckservative-and-why-i-am-not-a-conservative</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/conserviletive/@jacobcwitmer/why-conserviletive-is-a-better-term-than-cuckservative-and-why-i-am-not-a-conservative</guid><category><![CDATA[conserviletive]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:55:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/5s4dzRwnVbzHMnrhG9dqDTRDRrGcZ3bYVxb3YXNnATvZxRbpQbvtvH4tce5t9KE85uu9SUcaLCTWwgbnQb9ecrbFT6cSv98BjFUTZHEdrhytxKWshzZwHG8XSAERBb464L1i33ohkM3k3edHYPobCVkdhvEEcG6Aau8LY78?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sci-fi-level Robots Now a Reality]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steve Jurvetson (Draper Fisher, Jurvetson) just uploaded a new video of Boston Dynamics' new "nightmare inducing" robots. If you're reminded of Bradbury's "mechanical hound" from Fahrenheit]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/anarchy/@jacobcwitmer/sci-fi-level-robots-now-a-reality</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/anarchy/@jacobcwitmer/sci-fi-level-robots-now-a-reality</guid><category><![CDATA[anarchy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 03:45:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45dtF5reEpsuQeN99C4XEz2KRRp6VCYpc7FpA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Wealthy Libertarians Wanted Freedom(They Don't), We'd All Be Free]]></title><description><![CDATA[The proof is the result. The results we've obtained are tyranny. Thus, competent "movers and shakers" must want tyranny, or at least not want freedom too badly. What is reality? 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The benefits of this term are many: America has successfully]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/why-i-don-t-use-the-term-statist</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/why-i-don-t-use-the-term-statist</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 06:22:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UondJxcjVaienfhVaNb7LJVWG6e787gZyymKGwZ6ApdEjoCixrzKPJLx9uHFPxUcwNBaKnGtGeuiieZAWsQDGQCdX4annkHbRmyFZu7rVc6i?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA["No Campus For White Men" Author on Tucker Carlson]]></title><description><![CDATA[...A Remake / Update of "The Shadow University" @3:20 The psychology is explained in the book "The Shadow University" by Harvey Silverglate and Charles Alan Kors. It's descended from]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/no-campus-for-white-men-author-on-tucker-carlson</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@jacobcwitmer/no-campus-for-white-men-author-on-tucker-carlson</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 02:03:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eHa5ENQ3tw2URXRWwCJfjRxxpzES6RcHFP4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessary Components for Creating "Artificial General Intelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[...Two Partly-Compatible, Highly-Intelligent Viewpoints The prior video is Susan Gildert's appearance on "The Singularity Weblog" with Nikola Danaylov. Her company, Kindred AI, is attempting]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/agi/@jacobcwitmer/necessary-components-for-creating-artificial-general-intelligence</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/agi/@jacobcwitmer/necessary-components-for-creating-artificial-general-intelligence</guid><category><![CDATA[agi]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2017 06:59:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e5rS8BbJuZ5c2vE5WEiS3GhN3TWMD3wYMKC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swimming Toward The Light Is Not Enlightenment]]></title><description><![CDATA[...Bacteria-Level Legal Philosophy: The Worst Problem With Political Parties Summary: 1) Most people in the USA have a philosophy on the order of complexity of the goals a bacteria has. A bacterium swims]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/anarchy/@jacobcwitmer/striving-toward-the-light-is-not-enlightenment-bacteria-level-legal-philosophy-the-worst-problem-with-political-parties</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/anarchy/@jacobcwitmer/striving-toward-the-light-is-not-enlightenment-bacteria-level-legal-philosophy-the-worst-problem-with-political-parties</guid><category><![CDATA[anarchy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jacobcwitmer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2017 05:29:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45dwsEGujsTmdzezfW1pVQxN5sWwwbNqe5zrS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>