Solo Solominski

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Text Shot: The politics of left-wing vengeance never take into consideration the downstream effects of policy. It doesn’t matter whether defunding the police gets more black people killed or whether supporting Hamas dooms Gazans. So it certainly doesn’t matter whether a pied-a-terre tax helps or hurts New York City. All that matters is that the enemy is made to fear the mob.
Text Shot: We’re not abandoning literacy. We’re discovering what literacy meant all along: not just the ability to decode symbols on a page, but the capacity to move fluently between all the ways humans encode meaning.
Text Shot: What’s different is the existence of delivery mechanisms actively engineered to prevent the kind of attention that serious thought requires. The penny dreadfuls didn’t follow you into your bedroom at midnight, vibrating with notifications.
Text Shot: Compton countered that Assyrian artists often depict different events that may have taken place far apart from each other in what appears to be a single scene, meaning it need not be somewhere in the lowlands
Text Shot: And there's some goals that as soon as you think of it, you go, oh, fuck, yes, oh, my God, yes! And you jump out of your chair, you take action, you do something right away, you immediately pick up the phone and call somebody or you immediately fire off the alarm and you sign up for the thing, right now you go, "Oh, man, yes, yes!" You can feel yourself take action. Now, even if that goal might not win you the Nobel Prize and a round of applause, it's the goal that made you take action. Therefore, that was the better goal.
Text Shot: really, for the most part, the stamp we leave on the world can really come down to just one thing we're good at. So if you let go of everything else, it's okay.
Text Shot: The single most salient fact of the post-Oct. 7 world, at least in the United States, is this: Every major group that Jewish advocacy organizations fought for are either sitting this one out or suiting up for the other side.