this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
524 points (92.7% liked)

Political Memes

7824 readers
3355 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

No AI generated content.Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The projects were a flawed concept not least because it concentrates inequality leading to the obvious results.

So instead we have a morass of inscrutable regulations on 3-4 levels (federal, state, county, city) with wildly complex funding schemes making the few expert developers wildly wealthy while building tragically few affordable units.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not just the concentration of inequality. Also there was often no infrastructure, no shops, no pubs, no nothing, super thin walls, so you could hear all your neighbours, terrible heat isolation... not so different from the tents but higher concentration of people, which made it worse. In many post-communist countries those were later remade into livable places, but it took lots of time and money to do so. Totalitarian regimes suck.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

all I see are 2 examples of brutalism

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are the people shitting on these in the room with us, now?

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I'll take "How the government can't solve your problems with unlimited money" for a preferential bread line or $1000 Alex.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You’re pretending that the blocks were built to house the homeless, when it was well to do families being forced into them. They lacked just about everything one can desire. So ya I don’t think the inhabitants of these places remember them fondly.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I am happy my grandparents can't read your comment. And neither can my great grandfather.

load more comments (3 replies)

I try to understand just because I'd have no problem living in a shoe doesn't mean everyone should.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›