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re: Shapiro with a pretty damn good one word slap down tweet
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:33 am to CleverUserName
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:33 am to CleverUserName
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Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:34 am to Big_Slim
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Right. Huge free market guy but I also recognize it’s role in completely destroying modern American architecture.
Form over function, cheapest materials possible, quickest construction time possible. Add it all together and you get the desolate landscapes found in the majority of our nation’s smaller cities.
That's got nothing to do with the free market, it's a values issue. Market economies have produced the finest architecture in the world, behind cathedrals and early government buildings. While the latter two were built by market assets, it's fair to say that market pressures weren't as applicable.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:34 am to Mo Jeaux
Hush, commie.
But you, strangely, have a point.
Signs in Naples, FL can’t be over head high and Walmart is behind a berm. Can’t see the ugly.
But you, strangely, have a point.
Signs in Naples, FL can’t be over head high and Walmart is behind a berm. Can’t see the ugly.
This post was edited on 7/9/20 at 8:36 am
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:34 am to Shiftyplus1
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Because the brutalist style that socialist nations used was so amazing.
Again, there must be other choices.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:38 am to CleverUserName
Laziness. Would have worked also.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:39 am to NDonahue
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That kind of thing does not happen in a communist state.
Because abuse of power never occurs there?
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:39 am to Mo Jeaux
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Why are some of you so stuck in the capitalism/communism dichotomy?
As if you can only have one or the other. Between brutalist architecture and modern strip mall capitalism architecture, I’d take neither.
Mr. Coomer with a good take for once.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:39 am to CleverUserName
A government committee approved all those signs and designs which allowed them to be put there in such a way. They are ultimately responsible.
Ever been to Sanibel, FL? That it is not overrun by corporate logos is not an accident.
Ever been to Sanibel, FL? That it is not overrun by corporate logos is not an accident.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:42 am to Mo Jeaux
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Again, there must be other choices.
There are other choices, but you can let the localities make those choices. I lot of nicer suburbs like The Woodlands don’t allow colors and such in signs.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:44 am to Mo Jeaux
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That’s really not a boom at all.
Hey. You need to log off and go tend to your garden.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:44 am to CleverUserName
Wait, is someone trying to celebrate Communist architecture?
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:47 am to CleverUserName
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Hey. You need to log off and go tend to your garden.
My God. Some of you are not very smart people at all.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:48 am to Ag Zwin
I dont really know what you mean by “abuse of power.” Anyway, Im not saying it could not happen, but then that wouldnt be a “communist” state if it did. It would be something else. Certainly that’s not what the people that invented communism had in mind. The state would have seized the plutocrat’s assets long ago. I think communism is a horrible system, I’m just saying that what is happening here is something different and trying to use Cold War-era thinking is holding people back.
This post was edited on 7/9/20 at 8:54 am
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:49 am to SlowFlowPro
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Wait, is someone trying to celebrate Communist architecture?
Yes. Apparently, the only choices available are unfettered capitalist strip malls and sprawl, on the one hand, and massive brutalist communist housing units, on the other hand.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:49 am to CleverUserName
Look a this Soviet beauty:
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:52 am to Flats
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That's got nothing to do with the free market, it's a values issue.
Can you elaborate a little more on this?
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Market economies have produced the finest architecture in the world, behind cathedrals and early government buildings.
Disagree on this point. Almost all of the architecture I care about was produced through state funded projects.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:53 am to Mo Jeaux
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Yes. Apparently, the only choices available are unfettered capitalist strip malls and sprawl, on the one hand, and massive brutalist communist housing units, on the other hand.
The false dichotomy between capitalism and communism in this thread is supa cringe.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:56 am to Mo Jeaux
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Yes. Apparently, the only choices available are unfettered capitalist strip malls and sprawl
Oh, please tell us about all the excess that you put into your home, seeing as how you would never build with the most affordable products available. Let me guess: stainless steel frame instead of wood frame? Marble floors in place of wood floors? Itailian clay tile roof in place of asphalt shingles? Brick drive in place of concrete.
Please, I'd love to know how you are so much better than the "capitalists".
Posted on 7/9/20 at 8:57 am to Mo Jeaux
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My God. Some of you are not very smart people at all.
It’s a joke Karen. Lighten the F up.
Posted on 7/9/20 at 9:01 am to CleverUserName
I saw that tweet about how "depressing" capitalist architecture is, and it made me think about how depressing architecture (particularly housing) was in the Soviet Union:
Of course, the person who tweeted that would just say "sOvIet UnIoN WaS nOt ReAl cOmMuNiSm/sOCiaLIsM!!!111!"
Of course, the person who tweeted that would just say "sOvIet UnIoN WaS nOt ReAl cOmMuNiSm/sOCiaLIsM!!!111!"
This post was edited on 7/9/20 at 9:02 am
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