Jackson Marsten

Jackson Marsten

@jacksonmarsten.bsky.social

unemployed political philosopher. Pessimist about the Fermi Paradox. It's past time to constitutionalize the parties

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"This good, that bad" is the simplest possible opinion. "Us good, them bad" is the simplest possible opinion overlayed on the human ego, and is responsible for the vast majority of stupidity in human history.

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Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

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Mass protests planned for June 14, everyone hit the streets. Every city, every capital. Resist and defend. #3E #HandsOff #Indivisible #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #NoKingsProtest Find a confirmed location here (more protests exist but are not listed): nokings.org#map

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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

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Are there any other examples of times when reality breaks grammar and we just have to deal with it? Example: Zero...it's a number so it has to be singular or plural, but since it isn't singular or plural, we just made it plural. "There are zero marbles."

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