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Jake Witmer

@jacobcwitmer

I'm a #ClassicalLiberal. I favor #CivilDisobedience combined with #JuryIndependence (selective "jury nullification of law") as a means to obtaining #freedom.

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer May 17, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

What Would The Founding Fathers Do? #YouTubeBoycott

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 doesn't work): htt…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer May 1, 2018, 10:30 AM UTC

What Google Thinks is Relevant To A Search for "Freedom Strategy"

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 "freedom" in…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer Apr 16, 2018, 12:18 AM UTC

Trump and his Cheerleaders Appear to be Incapable of Intellectual Honesty and Philosophical Analysis

The above Trump campaign survey is online at: https://action.donaldjtrump.com/msm-media-accountability-survey Of course, the dickless assholes who have turned America into a totalitarian shithole the…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer Apr 15, 2018, 8:50 PM UTC

Google's Damascene Conversion

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."…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer Feb 5, 2018, 11:30 AM UTC

Why Libertarianism Fails: Disunity; Infighting; Political Relinquishment

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…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer Jan 12, 2018, 12:24 PM UTC

U.S. Politics: the Dunning-Kruger Electorate and Sociopathic Politicians

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 importa…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer Sep 3, 2017, 9:08 AM UTC

Biology Professor Accused of "Racism" and Receiving Death Threats for ...Teaching Biology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzUuQ6LkE94 Above: Biology Professor Bret Weinstein explains how he was "run off campus" by a mob of angry, stupid, History-illiterate Marxist students because he refu…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer Aug 26, 2017, 11:10 AM UTC

"Time For Academics To Shine" in the Battle for Free Speech?

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 b…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer Jun 1, 2017, 11:51 AM UTC

Is America Racist? A Reply to the Alleged "Double-Standard" of Kathy Griffin...

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 either correct, or…

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Jake Witmer
@jacobcwitmer May 14, 2017, 6:49 PM UTC

If Libertarians Wanted Liberty They'd Have It

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 "gibberish" to commonplace unphil…

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