re: Shapiro with a pretty damn good one word slap down tweet

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And I cannot think of too many city center areas in the U.S. (at least larger cities) that I would hold up as having very pleasant designs.

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Whether that's true or not (we are talking about something subjective here), it has nothing to do with capitalism. Capitalism can produce cubes or castles; it will produce whatever people want.

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why American architecture mostly sucks arse

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What country is producing modern architecture that meets your approval?

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I mean, one's older and more dilapidated than the others, but I would hardly hold up those condos as some paragon of beauty

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I'd rather see private businesses, in an attempt to save money, build those sorts of structures than a government mandate that only those sorts of structures can be built because we're all equal and individuality is bad, comrade.

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What a cop out answer. Yes or no, do you support the government regulating private platforms like Facebook?

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Literally just trying to have a conversation about why American architecture mostly sucks arse.

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i guess all those old euro-designs beholden to architectural styles from the 1500s are so much better than us.

which communist utopia did frank lloyd wright live and work in again?

i was agreeing

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No idea.

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Typically when someone says something is "bad" (or ugly or a host of other adjectives), a context is offered. If I say that grocery stores suck it just means I don't like grocery stores. If I say that Publix grocery stores suck, there's an unspoken implication that another grocery store chain is doing a much better job than Publix.

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Not trying to argue that market economies are not superior to planned ones.

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No, but you're apparently trying to argue that the architecture that you don't care for is some inherent byproduct of capitalism. I suspect that you just don't care for modern commercial architecture at all but you're not familiar with anywhere but American cities.

In any event. all of these houses were built in a free market capitalist society. There may be commercial buildings just as detailed, but I'm not an expert in the field. I only know about this site because my wife has it on her Instagram feed.
https://www.instagram.com/historicalhomesofamerica/

Since grey concrete soviet style brutalist architecture is so appealing

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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.

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Communist nations do the same thing.

If building something great didn’t require so much red tape and have to jump through hoops with local officials having their hand out combined with labor costs due to unions being out the roof, then better architecture could be afforded.

Most of the worlds greatest architecture was built with Slave Labor. That’s what made it so great, cost wasn’t a problem

What a band of nutsacks they are.

They honestly believe all of their creature comforts will remain EXACTLY AS THEY ARE if things sway towards the most oppressive, failed political system in modern history.

This is how utterly STUPID these vermin really are.