JohnAlbin
@johnalbin.bsky.social
To the right, laws only apply to other people.
Always worth remembering: what people on the left experience as disqualifying hypocrisy, people on the right experience as proof of their innate superiority manifesting itself by their being above the rules. Why would laws constrain the only people who are fully human?
100% this. Unfortunately, that circle also fits fully inside another circle of people immune to feeling shame about their hypocrisy.
September 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
To the right, laws only apply to other people.
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We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
What if, instead of trying to “win” politics, we instead tried to fix society?
"The job of the Democratic party comes in two parts. First: Do not help Republicans. Not in any way. Second: Make Donald Trump own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world..."
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats and the Ruthless Aggression Era
America needs a real opposition party.
www.thebulwark.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What if, instead of trying to “win” politics, we instead tried to fix society?
There’s an elevated bridge exit in Taipei that always makes me sing this when I drive on it.
1,2,3, FOUR, FIVE,
6,7,8 NINE, TEN,
eleven, twelve. TWELVE!
1,2,3, FOUR, FIVE,
6,7,8 NINE, TEN,
eleven, twelve. TWELVE!
It is a scientific fact that no song has ever slapped harder than the 1977 Sesame Street funk/jazz Caribbean-infused banger "Pinball Number Count" by Walt Kraemer, Ed Bogas and The Pointer Sisters
November 14, 2024 at 7:19 AM
There’s an elevated bridge exit in Taipei that always makes me sing this when I drive on it.
1,2,3, FOUR, FIVE,
6,7,8 NINE, TEN,
eleven, twelve. TWELVE!
1,2,3, FOUR, FIVE,
6,7,8 NINE, TEN,
eleven, twelve. TWELVE!
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Gentle reminder that most disabled people can NOT leave the United States. Countries don’t want to take in disabled, chronically ill and “high cost health users”. There are serious financial barriers to moving - leaving most people behind.
Spare a thought for all of us tonight - people are scared
Spare a thought for all of us tonight - people are scared
November 6, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Gentle reminder that most disabled people can NOT leave the United States. Countries don’t want to take in disabled, chronically ill and “high cost health users”. There are serious financial barriers to moving - leaving most people behind.
Spare a thought for all of us tonight - people are scared
Spare a thought for all of us tonight - people are scared
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I was very numb when I woke up so I went for a run just to feel something and now realize "feeling something" was a bad idea
November 6, 2024 at 1:15 PM
I was very numb when I woke up so I went for a run just to feel something and now realize "feeling something" was a bad idea
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"We should be spending millions, even billions, on this endeavour. It will be the largest improvement in human hygiene since the advent of water treatment. It will reap huge economic benefits by greatly reducing short- and long-term illness, and will depressurize hospitals."
Opinion: It's time to clean the germs out of our indoor air
Properly cleaning our indoor air will be the largest improvement in human hygiene since the advent of water treatment
edmontonjournal.com
April 4, 2024 at 11:22 PM
"We should be spending millions, even billions, on this endeavour. It will be the largest improvement in human hygiene since the advent of water treatment. It will reap huge economic benefits by greatly reducing short- and long-term illness, and will depressurize hospitals."