This plan is so retrograde. It is a slippery slope. I read about this a few days ago and cannot stop thinking how dangerous this seemingly innocuous policy is. Fundamentalist religious policies completely changed the culture in certain repressive countries. Women did not always have to wear headscarves in Iran. Not that long ago, before the Taliban, girls could attend school. Retrograde authoritarian leadership ultimately leads to repression.
Because the taxpayer will no longer be funding glass and steel architectural abominations, women are going to end up being removed from school by the Cathbol patrol.
Taxpayers do not fund anything, there is no such thing as taxpayer money, only the public treasury and public funds. Fuck taxpayers and fuck home owners and fuck the middle class. Get over yourselves.
glass and steel architectural abominations
Yeah I'm sure you're going to stop using fucking glass and steel, instead of building the millionth pale imitation of the pantheon except with glass and steel that is embarrassed by itself and pretends to be something that it's not (the pale, naked white marble of the pantheon, at least in the modern era after the pigments that were originally used washed off; we didn't know about this until a couple of decades ago of course so all "neoclassical" architecture has been built around false, ignorant imitations of forms that were never intended by their architects to be presentable).
You're not going to spend the vast sums of public money that would be required to actually build a stone pantheon imitation. Your going to build an abomination that an ignoramus might mistake for the pantheon, using modern materials, wastefully trying to pretend it's stone.
Pseudo-classical architecture is an atrocity and should be banned. Brutalism is good and should instead be mandated as the sole state style. All pseudoclassical reactionary architecture should be leveled and replaced with glorious brutalist monuments to the new workers age.
Why are you making excuses for the hideously ugly shit they actually want to build
Who do you think wants to work in or around this hideous shit or this disgusting eyesore instead of something halfway respectable looking like the building you posted?
I'm cool with the decepticon shit, at least it's interesting - and #1 is the reason why GSA exists to begin with. By and large, they've put together some cool shit over the years, and some of it even boomer style like you want.
If you support free speech, you must support people pinging other users. It's completely legal speech. If you won't defend pinging as free speech because you or someone else finds it disgusting, then no speech that you or anyone else views as disgusting is safe.
>if it is in fact on shaky legal ground it's reasonable to not want to be the case that establishes it as illegal.
It's not, The reddit admins are straight up lying to the ignorant (like yourself) to justify their prejudice. Pinging being protected speech has long since been estabilished, as it has undeniable artistic merit. The only time it's been included under any obscenity laws is when someone is being charged with possession of harassment, so the state can slap them with more charges. The courts have been very careful to not charge anyone for pinging, because they'd get their asses fucking annihilated by a higher court due to the firm precedence of pinging being completely legal speech. /r/Drama had nothing to worry about, this guy was just making shit up to fool people into thinking his censoring wasn't entirely personally motivated.
When it was built it wasn't plain white marble, they used pigments and paints. The paint faded off as there was nobody to repaint it and we imitated that look assuming that's how it was intended to look. That's really the case for a lot of psuedoclassical architecture, just mindless imitation without rhyme or reason, knowing almost nothing in reality about the structures you claim to worship.
Lol who cares about the paint? The buildings look good. This is just a way to keep the architects from creating soul crushing gimmicks anyway, not about classical specifically.
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5 15nelsoc 2020-02-09
Because the taxpayer will no longer be funding glass and steel architectural abominations, women are going to end up being removed from school by the Cathbol patrol.
3 watermark1917 2020-02-09
Taxpayers do not fund anything, there is no such thing as taxpayer money, only the public treasury and public funds. Fuck taxpayers and fuck home owners and fuck the middle class. Get over yourselves.
Yeah I'm sure you're going to stop using fucking glass and steel, instead of building the millionth pale imitation of the pantheon except with glass and steel that is embarrassed by itself and pretends to be something that it's not (the pale, naked white marble of the pantheon, at least in the modern era after the pigments that were originally used washed off; we didn't know about this until a couple of decades ago of course so all "neoclassical" architecture has been built around false, ignorant imitations of forms that were never intended by their architects to be presentable).
You're not going to spend the vast sums of public money that would be required to actually build a stone pantheon imitation. Your going to build an abomination that an ignoramus might mistake for the pantheon, using modern materials, wastefully trying to pretend it's stone.
3 15nelsoc 2020-02-09
Thank you for the wisdom, wise evangelist of Lenin
2 HodorTheDoorHolder_ 2020-02-09
The good thing about making all government buildings look that way is that it’s easy to find the courthouse
2 Msmit71 2020-02-09
NOOOO YOU CAN'T BUILD PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A STYLE THAT HAS BEEN NEAR UNIVERSALLY REGARDED AS BEAUTIFUL AND STATELY FOR GENERATIONS NOOOOOOO
3 watermark1917 2020-02-09
Pseudo-classical architecture is an atrocity and should be banned. Brutalism is good and should instead be mandated as the sole state style. All pseudoclassical reactionary architecture should be leveled and replaced with glorious brutalist monuments to the new workers age.
6 SmurfPolitics 2020-02-09
I was legitimately seething for a second there
2 SgtViktorReznov 2020-02-09
Yessss, goooooooood.
Let our superior Anglo architecture spread across the globe!
1 AlecOzzyHillPitas 2020-02-09
This but unironically
3 CarefulExamination 2020-02-09
It can be beautiful but the average american suburban greek-themed mcmansion courthouse isn't.
0 kermit_was_wrong 2020-02-09
The joos are right here - the "style" is actually derivative pastiche. This shit here is not beautiful and stately.
https://i.imgur.com/9USlEfp.png
It's fine if a town wants a courthouse like this, but there is no reason to mandate mediocrity from top down.
5 hyledog 2020-02-09
not nearly enough pillars, obelisks, and domes in this image
5 cptnhaddock 2020-02-09
Lol shut the fuck up retard. That building looks nice too
3 pol__invictus__risen 2020-02-09
Why are you making excuses for the hideously ugly shit they actually want to build
Who do you think wants to work in or around this hideous shit or this disgusting eyesore instead of something halfway respectable looking like the building you posted?
2 kermit_was_wrong 2020-02-09
I'm cool with the decepticon shit, at least it's interesting - and #1 is the reason why GSA exists to begin with. By and large, they've put together some cool shit over the years, and some of it even boomer style like you want.
2 big_papa_stiffy 2020-02-09
yeah what you need is a big random ugly shape and random protrusions
4 AlecOzzyHillPitas 2020-02-09
The virgin kitschy classicist and the virgin post modernist abstraction are two sides of the same horseshoe.
They tremble in fear of the chad mid century modernist.
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2 forseti911 2020-02-09
Nibbas on /r/drama really be fighting their weird proxy culture war about the designs of random buildings.
1 SnapshillBot 2020-02-09
If you support free speech, you must support people pinging other users. It's completely legal speech. If you won't defend pinging as free speech because you or someone else finds it disgusting, then no speech that you or anyone else views as disgusting is safe.
>if it is in fact on shaky legal ground it's reasonable to not want to be the case that establishes it as illegal.
It's not, The reddit admins are straight up lying to the ignorant (like yourself) to justify their prejudice. Pinging being protected speech has long since been estabilished, as it has undeniable artistic merit. The only time it's been included under any obscenity laws is when someone is being charged with possession of harassment, so the state can slap them with more charges. The courts have been very careful to not charge anyone for pinging, because they'd get their asses fucking annihilated by a higher court due to the firm precedence of pinging being completely legal speech. /r/Drama had nothing to worry about, this guy was just making shit up to fool people into thinking his censoring wasn't entirely personally motivated.
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1 zvlastnivec 2020-02-09
Limit freedom of expression more, daddy
4 snowkarl 2020-02-09
You should see the building codes here in the libs' fantasy place Scandinavia - 100x worse.
I don't even think you can paint your house pink in most towns.
5 RIPGeorgeHarrison 2020-02-09
Wow. That would be outrageous if I was a total faggot.
3 cptnhaddock 2020-02-09
Based
2 watermark1917 2020-02-09
Scandinavia is reactionary.
1 tHeSiD 2020-02-09
No one cares about you iced up fucks
1 snowkarl 2020-02-09
hey that's not true
the berniebros do because they always use us as their paradise utopia you guys should be aiming for
4 cptnhaddock 2020-02-09
No one wants to see whatever the fuck an architect thinks represents him
4 closedshop 2020-02-09
2 zvlastnivec 2020-02-09
Taxation without representation is my kink
1 watermark1917 2020-02-09
Fuck taxpayers, there's no such thing as taxpayer money, only public money.
1 watermark1917 2020-02-09
Ah the wonderful brave new era when we walk down beautiful streets where everything looks like this lovely piece. Timeless, classic, it just works.
0 boyoyoyoyong 2020-02-09
(((They))) really hate buildings that have looked good for 2 millennia don't they
2 watermark1917 2020-02-09
When it was built it wasn't plain white marble, they used pigments and paints. The paint faded off as there was nobody to repaint it and we imitated that look assuming that's how it was intended to look. That's really the case for a lot of psuedoclassical architecture, just mindless imitation without rhyme or reason, knowing almost nothing in reality about the structures you claim to worship.
8 cptnhaddock 2020-02-09
Lol who cares about the paint? The buildings look good. This is just a way to keep the architects from creating soul crushing gimmicks anyway, not about classical specifically.
1 big_papa_stiffy 2020-02-09
its everything that exists that looks good