<?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, 08 Apr 2026 16:04:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@richreasons/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[#ADOS: How the 2020 Election Is Fuelling Debate between Black Americans and the wider pan-African Diaspora]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a RAGING debate starting on YouTube about who should and shouldn't be allowed to consider himself or herself a 'American descendant of slaves' or #ADOS. Because of the traditionally-unsavoury]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@richreasons/ados-how-the-2020-election-is-fuelling-debate-between-black-americans-and-the-wider-pan-african-diaspora</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@richreasons/ados-how-the-2020-election-is-fuelling-debate-between-black-americans-and-the-wider-pan-african-diaspora</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:09:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45dxguPxfSNLWfVK4M6rYazivMTtwwU63jReN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd Speaks to America's Chuck Todd on Guns in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Okay, presuming you've watched the video, I"m just going to get straight into it. The only amendment to ever be amended was also a ban. The 18th, a ban on alcohol, was repealed with the 21st. Today,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/guns/@richreasons/kevin-rudd-speaks-to-america-s-chuck-todd-on-guns-in-the-us</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/guns/@richreasons/kevin-rudd-speaks-to-america-s-chuck-todd-on-guns-in-the-us</guid><category><![CDATA[guns]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:09:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45dxcdgiTH1WQdmGwDgjnWTjnf1z5QL2rUdhY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Even Atheist Marriages Confirm the Genesis Account]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is not just the writings of Genesis but the way the lives of even its skeptics reflect it. The instinct of women (almost universally) to want to be 'given away' by their fathers, and to hope to be greeted]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/marriage/@richreasons/how-even-atheist-marriages-confirm-the-genesis-account</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/marriage/@richreasons/how-even-atheist-marriages-confirm-the-genesis-account</guid><category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 05:42:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4PYjjVwJ1UdtwYR96UCduDt7fuBMKCYPHeLpsjRsg5saELAUEM6ugScLk3nfZ7RjntqMgTfzfiTdGWLCVfVZMVJWYAWSTtkfrtFnyo9HUiJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex as Love vs. Sex as Power]]></title><description><![CDATA[The expression “fuck you” as an expression of anger is completely counter-intuitive, if you think about it, as is the expression “Suck my dick.” It makes no sense that an act that is viewed as one that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/love/@richreasons/sex-as-love-vs-sex-as-power</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/love/@richreasons/sex-as-love-vs-sex-as-power</guid><category><![CDATA[love]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:20:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e3SxhgDtXuaVhdRoU9WPrtRzny9efgUTQcW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kneeling is not Tantamount to Hurling a Racial Slur in the Workplace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comparing the utterance of a racial slur at work to the act of kneeling one's own body is chalk and cheese, apples and oranges, shit from shinola. You pick the metaphor. This is not that. Some may want]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sports/@richreasons/kneeling-is-not-tantamount-to-hurling-a-racial-slur-in-the-workplace</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sports/@richreasons/kneeling-is-not-tantamount-to-hurling-a-racial-slur-in-the-workplace</guid><category><![CDATA[sports]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:28:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8SzwQc8j2KJb4ARrxQxCjX4jizub4U5CAK3WwB89rFomJaaWi9w1SBgjyFB8aa4ggkW2oQ3uN7y16TWNUszfTazhQpp1ApA9Hxcu5ZRCjHPTjoopYCN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Race Really Truly Isn't an Actual Thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[I had a 'discussion', recently. A friend expressed frustration at people who say, "There is only one race - the human race." This friend, and the almost exclusively African-American audience]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/race/@richreasons/why-race-really-truly-isn-t-an-actual-thing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/race/@richreasons/why-race-really-truly-isn-t-an-actual-thing</guid><category><![CDATA[race]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:30:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2FFvzA2zeqoVZ5NRzV2o8MyJEzowAL6rjbt8w3dTGbMkHoh7q587e5nxrv27xXPSm4E7cY9qD9pibeSh3RqS2FmLQAfGBPF98CDK2q1v9d35upXP9FKEgVJz6eMGz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA["I Deserve...": The Most Dangerous Phrase in the English Language?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A person who genuinely wants something for himself or herself should have no problem or guilt about saying that they want it, without any mention of the word 'deserve.' Earning, as it were, is a concept]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychology/@richreasons/i-deserve-the-most-dangerous-phrase-in-the-english-language</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychology/@richreasons/i-deserve-the-most-dangerous-phrase-in-the-english-language</guid><category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 12:51:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pQYiuVvgYiUBP16WHGGN7UNn1BCdGdMbSizXq8oE22V2q5PLWiXCTKi8Zi8F82YvpSUWshnBiDTxydBfy37GA98SJeECz88MjTvMdMJWRE4wN6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cold, Sad, Transactional Business That 'Beauty' Has Become]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of common sayings that society accepts and uses, which don't make sense, even to the people using them, until you think about them deeply. For years, I knew exactly when to evoke the saying,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/beauty/@richreasons/the-cold-sad-transactional-business-that-beauty-has-become</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/beauty/@richreasons/the-cold-sad-transactional-business-that-beauty-has-become</guid><category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:12:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/6VvuHGsoU2QD2aHbJiivbVZV6nAA4BJrX2xi1Ybtxcx1XsgaKQ262Ua1MiS4iLGCwA8HSvBhDncnFEFewWYhH65AqrfCWxzGPn5YctParaExnBLAG7vWZti3gGzPEe?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Would Anyone Consider Guns Essential to Democracy in the First Place?]]></title><description><![CDATA[People who have their actuarial blinders on, viewing mass shootings as strictly a public safety issue, clearly don't have the political insight or historical knowledge to understand the broad, grave]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/guns/@richreasons/why-would-anyone-consider-guns-essential-to-democracy-in-the-first-place</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/guns/@richreasons/why-would-anyone-consider-guns-essential-to-democracy-in-the-first-place</guid><category><![CDATA[guns]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[richreasons]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 06:55:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJR3iqPxDrevHK3vDeQGnHc8Wj8C8negty3uRhyTa5S8atkaJjbCdsCBWLDksYvs71WxpiaFJL6xQUm364iyk1GC7ep7tDxS7eqG7XgQqirTijfj1xD8fq18?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Australians Can't Understand the US Gun Issue]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of avenues of life where, if you simply reduce things to an actuarial equation, it is obvious that something is bad for you. 1.Smoking. 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