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Jeffrey Quackenbush

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Essays I've written can be found on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeffrey-Quackenbush Some samples of my poetry can be found on Substack: https://jeffreyquackenbush.substack.com

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 9h

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 12h

The Supreme Court decisions giving Trump immunity, etc. were a choice that could be reversed.

Institutional actors chose this and the voters chose those people to represent them in free elections.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think that’s quite true. All of the mechanism of the Constitution are still there in our institutions. It’s just that the institutional actors have chosen not to exercise them. Nobody is preventing the Republican party from joining with Democrats to remove Trump.

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 1d

It would be interesting to describe what happens and see if you could replicate it.

Then repeat this operation 12 times.

What on earth would be happening in the 13th video?

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 1d

Charisma doesn’t require bigotry.

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 1d

The people who most often use the phrase “purity test” tend to have their own peculiar purity tests about other things and object to feeling outside the circle of purity in a social context.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 2d

The East Wing is woke. It’s good that Trump is demolishing it.

by Jordan Peterson

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 2d

I wish you’d post more here rather than on Twitter.

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 2d

I can see some dude saying “that skull is METAL!” and not thinking any more about it. It's obscure enough that I’ve never heard of it.

If he knew it was associated with Nazis (or there is credible reporting that it’s possible), then yeah, he has to bow out.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 2d

It’s plausible that he didn’t know it was a Nazi symbol. I’ve never seen this one before and wouldn’t identify it as a Nazi thing. Is it disqualifying if he just thought it was cool-looking and never bothered to look too deeply into subsequently?

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 3d

This might help somewhat with these political ideologies because there would be better grounding to roll your eyes at people who want to grab hold of our collective politics to make it all about their peculiar experiences of gender or sexuality.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 3d

A better theory would explain how this variation is *ordered*, not according to individual or social caprice, or in moral terms, but according to natural, morally-neutral principles.

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 3d

It’s important to acknowledge that this aspect of human experience has formations that are physical, psychological, social and linguistic. The behaviors of individuals or groups reflect variations on how possibilities among different levels of formation can interact in a huge variety of ways.

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 3d

This isn’t just a problem on the political right, although their reactionary version of it is especially ghoulish. On the left, there is a legitimate impulse to protect individual rights, but explanations about how gender and human sexuality actually work are deeply convoluted.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 3d

One reason that this has been so persistent is that I don’t think we have a good theory of how sexuality and gender work. We have access to lots of information about these topics, but we don’t have a perspective that integrates all of this information together.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 3d

A surprising amount of our political problems spring from people having ill-formed ideas about how sex and gender work. People feel confused, irritated or disgusted by certain sexual identities or experiences, and they lash out and reify their feelings.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 4d

That is not an OSHA-approved ladder angle.

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 4d

These protests were planned far in advance and it was to anticipate they’d draw large crowds. It wasn’t like they were a surprise that missed the early editions of the paper — it was a choice to not reserve space for coverage.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 5d

No Kings (Except The One Who Is A Powerless Tabloid Figure)

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 5d

Wikipedia and Google Maps/Streetview are the two most truly useful things on the public internet. Everything else is fluff.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 6d

The Outback Steakhouse should be in Island Park NY.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 6d

Put Presidential succession on the blockchain.

by Andrew Yang

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 6d

It’s good of you to bring this to attention.

Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 7d

sorry, …in Red Square

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Jeffrey Quackenbush @jeffreyquackenbush.bsky.social · 7d

I know you’re not Catholic, but what you’re describing here reminds me a little of the tradition of relics associated with saints in the Middle Ages.

Also: Lenin (who is still there Red Square).

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