I mean, it would've been nice to have both the interstate AND cheap, affordable transit within metropolis centers but as we've seen with the modern oligarchs in the tech sector, it's never enough to only have a piece of the pie.
I'm also going to chime in a special love for Roger Rabbit. I always manage to find new ways to be impressed by the effects in that movie when I go back and watch it.
I’m impressed with Valiant’s actor (who’s name sadly escapes me). Most of the time he’s either talking to a dummy of Roger or just a green ball or something. But what REALLY amazes me is when he and Roger are in the speakeasy and he’s cutting the cuffs off and bangs his head on the light. Nearly every frame gets Rogers shadow exactly where it should be as the light swings around.
Capitalism is beautiful in all of it's manifestations. Highways, competing road signs and businesses, big cities and skyscrapers, and little towns in between. There's a place for everyone to work and contribute.
I always had a special love for Greek and Roman style. The Temples such as the Parthenon of Athena in the Athenian Acropolis spring to mind. I would love if my clothes and grocery shopping experiance was as in the Agora, or marketplace with their beautiful columns and wide open spaces. It is nice. I must admit, Art Deco is also spectacular, I was introduced to it when I played Bioshock.
That speech made me happy, teary eyed (happy tears) and the laugh so hard when at the end President Trump makes the comment at the end of his impromptu testimonial speech “so I think the rest of us have a minute left to talk so...”
President Trump is a legend and we the REAL people know it, and he deserves all the love he can get - from the heart, and from the soul - to hell with the Mentally Unhinged tri-bi-polar commie-left, they’ve got nothing on Trump and it shows!!!
WOW. I just listened to that twice (accidentally; auto replay. I am a member of the masses specified below). How do you distill that into a 20 second message to the mentally challenged masses?
Venezuela has nothing to offer but oil. When oil price skyrocketed in the 00s they did reap the full benefit of it and they prospered, which gave Chavez the illusion and allowed him to give out free stuffs. As soon as oil price went down, their prosperity went away.
I've been trying to red pill some people like that by trying to explain the satisfaction of a career, career advancement and accomplishment. I can't seem to get through. They get their jollies off instant gratification and get their living expenses off the government dole, family or extended family.
I still remember one I spoke to; he had no interest in any of that or even mobility. They're perfectly okay living their entire life in the same house with no job.
Here's a suggestion... Maybe explain to them that a capitalist society is the only one that would permit their current lifestyle. They can do it, but not everyone can. If we went full on Commie, they'd be drug out of their house and forced to work something they didn't want to do. In Cambodia under Pol Pot people were killed for owning glasses. Because they deemed if you were reading you weren't spending enough time working. I've been to Cambodia, and ever since they've started embracing capitalism things have improved....A LOT! The people there were grateful to even get something as simple as their first Burger King.
Your success will largely depend upon their upbringing.
Many people like that were either:
raised by resentful n'er-do-wells who never attained anything of note either -- in short, lazy bums...and their kids have integrated that into their own personality
is the product of one of those "prosperity" homes in which career and advancement (or the appearances of the same) was pursued at the expense of everything else -- in which case they are rebelling against it.
I tend to believe that the best way to handle this is the same way you handle an addict: it has to be their idea to change (things have to get so painful for them that they want to), you have to "be there" when they do decided to change but don't push it or they'll relapse.
It isn't easy fyi -- good luck and successful outcome; it's a very noble cause.
If you don't have family, then a good strong hobby would help a lot.
EX: You get into cosplay. Your mind gets expanded and innovative, all while acquiring skill, and as you go for bigger and better, the financial demand becomes higher. So then you start striving to earn and accumulate more to feed that need. Next thing you know everything else pops into place in your life.
Stop or at least limit overuse of things like social media, pointless internet browsing, and porn. They screw with the motivation mechanisms in your brain and get you addicted to fake gratification.
Watch some Trump speeches, especially recent ones.
Find things that can make the world a better place and find things that you're good at that can work towards that goal. Every bit counts. It's our duty to society to better ourselves and others.
Lastly, don't overestimate the importance of "feeling motivated." No one who is exceptional at anything got there because they always felt like working for it. You have to know that you're working towards something valuable and use that to keep you going even when you'd rather slack off.
There was a video going around here earlier of a maga Korean lady saying exactly this. These spoiled white leftwing liberals have no idea what it's like to live in tough times, let them go live in Korea for a month and see how they change their tune.
Anyone that actually believes in Socialism or Communism is by definition an idiot because it's proven to be a failed economic system that results in nothing but starvation and death.
No, it's much worse than that. It's not that it 'fails' every time, it's that it is an inherently evil system that destroys the freedoms and liberty of the individual by making everyone a completely identical and consequently worthless number in a system. We all become worker ants in a colony, with nothing to live for.
It's much worse even than that. Its inherent evil doesn't just destroy freedom. It destroys the human spirit and fosters resentment and hopelessness.
They tell us "the capitalist is taking the sweat of your brow", but then they build a system where they literally confiscate the product of your effort and give it to whoever needs it more than you do.
Everyone under that system figures out that being a good and honest person is physical and spiritual suicide, and that being a worthless piece of shit and consuming more than you create is the way to go.
That's why it always collapses, and why they always have to start mass-murdering people to keep the rest working and stave off the collapse.
The problem is you could say the same thing about aspects of capitalism. Look at any mega corporation, are the employees treated like people or worthless numbers? Wal-Mart is a great example. The military also falls into that "worthless numbers" mindset as your rank and file grunts will be sacrificed when necessary as "acceptable losses" if the ratio of dead to alive is considered acceptable to complete the mission.
Evil can be present anywhere, so using that as a justification can be tricky. Would you say that the Catholic Church should be torn down because they have a pedo problem in their priesthood, or should those doing wrong be rooted out and the overarching system saved because the core aspects as told in the bible are still good? Failure is one of the few things that can be checked against any system and always shows results.
The difference is that is a choice you can make. You can choose to work at Walmart or not. You can choose to enlist or not. And ultimately even if you do work at Walmart (I guess this doesn't apply to the military), they don't control your entire life. Walmart can never choose what you can and cannot do in your free time, how you spend your money, your beliefs, etc. And they definitely don't have the power to do anything worse than fire you.
A lot of knowledge workers are like that. They never get the hard life experiences that come from doing backbreaking labor. I think everyone should do some carpentry or construction so they understand what real hard work and adversity is. People like Marx's and Bernie can only justify their beliefs because they have never had to work hard for anything in their lives.
He praised communism because communists always dump way too much money into colleges. My father before he fled a communist country went to college there. He said they even paid him to go, he got so much money he didn't even know what to do with it. Would send cash back to his parents at home so they did not starve.
He must have had something to gain by asking students to go to a particular bookstore. Why do you think democrats push for communism? It's because they can line their pockets in the name of "redistribution", same as every communist leader did.
That's because they want a better life but they don't want to put the work in to get the better life. Instead of working to get their ass out of Dunkin Donuts by maybe hitting the weights and getting a higher paying job working construction or working in a factory, they just expect everyone else to pick up the slack for them. They just lie back on their Call of Duty MLG dream instead of putting in the effort to achieve that dream. Personally, I would never shit on someone's dream (not saying you are) because I had teachers shitting on mine my whole life, but if your dream is to be the next PewDiePie and you're not putting in the effort or time to be the next PewDiePie then you don't have my support.
Communists aren't people. Modern day slavers using a system as a whip. Work harder for the state, they'll tell you. Produce more for your mother land. Turn that mud into gold.
Problem with communism is all the gold goes to the top and you don't see any because you don't "need" any according to the state you're working so hard for. And that mud? Still mud. Work as hard as you want, little communists. That mud will always be mud.
It is a rest stop created by God, because it is one of the few areas in that mountainous terrain to loop a huge highway intersection together AND have room for a restaurant and services area.
The route the highways took and where they merged, means every chain business there makes huge profits, winter, summer, rain or shine.
Food quality bad? Yes, but you have no choice. Pay up and move along, thinking that you should plan the stops better, the next time through.
I’ve driven through Breezewood enough to say yep, that’s definitely Breezewood, facing east to get on the Turnpike.
And that’s the crossroad between the Midwest and Mid Atlantic so if the author of the article likes people being able to buy things, they should see that picture as beautiful. The goods they purchase? Good chance there is something in their home That passed through there
I see a family coming in from a long drive while on vacation. Kids are passed out in the back. Dad rolls in to the Exxon; he exits to pump gas while mom calls grandma to check in. Dad gets back in and he and mom begin to chat about the next leg of their trip. The kids have stirred and begin to sleepily open their eyes to an unfamiliar location, momentarily confused and unsure. But then they spy the familiar Golden Arches; they smile with widening eyes and utter the phrase so often heard around the country, "Can we get McDonald's breakfast?"
The closest thing to commie housing we have are the affordable housing projects and homes owned by the housing authority. Real great neighborhoods to raise your kids. And they all suck money out of the HUD via section 8.
I remember "The Projects" as you drove into Chicago.
Building after building of that Brutalist architecture.
Boy those were depressing to look at.
I can't imagine growing up in one of those.
Commie architecture is the fucking epitome of depressing. Brutal concrete blocks, harsh angles, vapid statues and monuments that try to capture the revolutionary spirit, but only serve to remind you that you are simply living in a new establishment that loves itself, and hates you.
I mean, Bauhaus and other modern minimalist architecture is kinda cool, but I think people connect more to warmer feeling Craftsman or Tudor. I think people are starting to understand that many modern art movements are completely soulless.
They call this depressing but I call it warming. When I see this picture I think of all the fun I've had on road trips, stopping at restaurants all over America with my friends, driving through small towns to go to wrestling shows. It takes me back to simpler times as well of family road trips, it takes me back to simplicity. I see nothing depressing about this picture or capitalist architecture.
I get that but I actually do believe that there are some needs for improvement in how spaces are created in our country. Like sure on interstates this is appropriate, but our downtowns and cities should have a little more space for slower movement. The big plazas and beautiful organic medieval villages of europe kind of express what we are lacking in this regard in my opinion.
But back to the point of the photo, yeah it's not like socialism is gonna give us anything beautiful ever.
If you haven't already you should check out the late Sir Roger Scruton. He was all about aesthetics with the thought being if you want to get people to be conservative you have to give them something worth conserving. Extolling the virtues of free markets is all well and good but if you don't give people that emotional connection they aren't really going to care (or at least not as much)
I think sir Roger Scruton is great. I've just listened to some conversations he's had, however, not done any reading of his yet. I'll be sure to check it out
Socialism would bulldoze all of these (because who needs selection, comrade?) and build a soulless brutalist public housing block or fill it with rubble and leave it, because that’s how the USSR fixed their mistakes.
These people think that the entire country lives in urban hell like they do. They don't have yards, no wide open spaces. Just pure concrete and steel dystopian bullshit. When I was growing up, I HATED mowing the yard for my grandpa and dad, or doing any yard work in general. But now that I've got my own place I can't tell you how much I find myself outside working on something. The sense of pride and accomplishment from putting up a fence, or planting a garden is something that isn't felt by these people.
A vast majority of space in America is natural. Literally nothing, unmanaged space. That would never happen in Socialist countries, they have to manage it somehow, thus destroying any semblance of “nature”.
Oof....while I can understand the need to have a replicated design, the least they could have done is painted each block of buildings a different color for both visual relief and easy location identification.
Why do you think they are always trying to force women to act like men? (which makes not only the woman a miserable hag but makes everyone else around her miserable at the same time) They so desperately want to be men that it breaks them when they realize that they cannot no matter how hard they try, which just makes them go even crazier and pushes them into misandry.
Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky' – do cities have to be so sexist?
Toxic masculinity is built into the fabric of our urban spaces, writes Leslie Kern, author of new book Feminist City. And the results aren’t just divisive – they can be lethal
Glass ceilings and phallic towers. Mean streets and dark alleys. Road names and statues of men. From the physical to the metaphorical, the city is filled with reminders of masculine power. And yet we rarely talk of the urban landscape as an active participant in gender inequality.
This looks like it is highway running through PA, WV, VA, or Western NY, the highways cut through Appalachia and pump much needed cash into the little towns throughout. This picture is beautiful to me. I just see jobs and then people living good lives because of those jobs.
I was going to post this but I decided to stump for Micky D's instead. :p
Thanks for covering it. This is exactly the sort of thing I would expect GEOTUS to say. This is a beautiful scene and only arrogant, entitled, nihilistic dregs out there would see otherwise.
The general consensus I have read so far is that us conservatives see beauty whereas the misnomered liberals do not. Our philosophy seems truly a happier one.
I also love what you observed about jobs and much needed money in Appalachia. I never looked at it in that light before, but once I had, that picture only deepened in its degree of beauty!
I'm going to technicality you here. There are very few places exactly like Breezewood that fuck up traffic flow anywhere near the amount that Breezewood does. It fucking sucks to have to drive through. By all means let me exit there and take care of business, but the forced interstate traffic having to drive through stoplights blows.
The last time I drove through Breezewood it was like that. I did stop for a meal. Since then I-70 has been connected through, as I understand it from reading the comments in this thread. The local community fought it, fearing it would cost them revenue. If it's true that I-70 now goes straight through, I bet it has cost them substantial revenue. I certainly wouldn't pull off into that maze if I had the choice.
I agree, I know of nowhere else that following such a major interstate forces you to drive through a business section like that. Simultaneously, in the 70's Mad magazine was lamenting how every city was starting to look the same because of National chains. Similar scenes have been commonplace.
None of it belongs as being labeled "capitalist architecture" though, that's just an infantile mentality. Capitalism is unrivalled in bringing goods where they're needed, with appropriate pricing. The main failure at that is monopolies, which includes healthcare. If those monopolies were broken up like they're supposed to be, I'm not sure we'd have the predatory practices of 'capitalism at its worst,' or if it would actually work. It used to work.
This is a quality meme and another pithy commie beaten senseless by based Dinesh.
That said, I do think it is valid to criticize the relentless sameness of this kind of landscape.
I want jobs, and prosperity, and good things for America and Americans. I'm not against corporations, but it seems to me that something is out of kilter with the way a few huge chains can dominate entire categories, making it well near impossible for little guys to enter many markets bla bla bla
Dinesh is from India. "Poverty" is an entirely different concept there. In India, poverty means you starve to death. In the United States, poverty means you die of type II diabetes. In government-subsidized housing.
Eating your family pet in venezuela. Lol liberals use Venezuela as an example of socialism working. Like yeah, it works if you have the power, if not, eat your dog and cats because the country has no food, and we won't let other nations send aid.
They all think they're going to be in the inner circle of the Maduro of the country. They don't understand they won't live to see that because they're always the first ones killed when the party takes over.
Not much architecture, but it's a beautifully composed photo, Remove judgment and just look at the colors and forms - I think the photographer should be proud of this!
Lol there was a post on the Pinko website Nextfuckinglevel about a Nepal restaurant giving tourist free food for this kung flu epidemic. They were trying to say collectivism is better than individualism and comparing America being to individualistic. Mother fuckers don’t know that the US consistently are number 1 in charity and the Marxist/Communist/Collectivist countries are consistently on the bottom. You can see this clearly in China and Taiwan; or N Korea and S Korea. There are so many retards.
Specifically talking architecture... did that person happen to notice that socialist/communist architecture doesn't exist? Also.. if we're talking great architecture, how about Roman, Medieval, Egyptian, and oh maybe Islamic? Pattern: Slavery seems to be directly involved in all.. just noticing the hypocracy in her argument that architecture says anything about how truly great a society is.
This is what the Soviets were trying to pass as their new government building before WWII. The Nazis put an end to that project, uh may I say thankfully?
The thing on top is literally a huge Vladimir Lenin statue.
Just a bad opinion. Modern art consists of commercials and graphic design. Those logos are iconic. It contains a different “beauty” than the classic architecture of other worlds, not that a country’s economic model determines the aesthetic value of art.
In America you can find sources of food almost anywhere even in the dead of night. I'd rather us not turn into some communist shithole where 99% of population is suffering from starvation.
The thing not mentioned is:
In a capitalist system, there is the freedom and initiative, as well as the capital, to change that architecture if people so desire to.
Therefore, if there is a desire to let's say make the stereotypical interstate off ramp spot into an oasis more of the parkland type, then in a capitalist system it will be accomplished. It is what the majority of people want/desire, so they will likely get it due to market forces at work.
Whereas there is absolutely no way that the hulking, barren, cement monstrosities so prevalent in a socialist system will ever come down (unless from decay -- which happens often due to shoddy construction and lack of upkeep -- and taking some poor people with them). That is because the state has put them up, and up they will stay, to change them would be to acknowledge that the state is wrong (plus they provide the money -- which isn't there, having all gone into beautifying the leaders' personal holdings).
"Capitalist" architecture? Oh no, honey, that's LIBERALISM architecture. See, commie faggot """artists""" in the 1950's decided that function was more important than form, and so everything built since then has been a fucking eyesore. People WANT beautiful buildings that have traditional styles. So if architecture was dominated by capitalists, that's what we'd see the most of. Instead it's dominated by artists and hacks.
The Don did well to get him out of prison. Not just because he undid an injustice that the islamoleftists had done to Dinesh, but also because he won the service of a loyal, trustworthy and effective general. Dinesh is good at handing out redpills.
Exactly. No motivation, no accomplishments. They only want to steal or criticize what everyone else has created.
The best anti Communist speech: Maximo Alvarez with president Trump July 10th, 2020. Round table discussing Venezuelans:
📢https://streamable.com/z0cr8n
Fucking love that film.
Don’t forget Jessica’s “Nice Booby Traps”. And that hair...
I mean, it would've been nice to have both the interstate AND cheap, affordable transit within metropolis centers but as we've seen with the modern oligarchs in the tech sector, it's never enough to only have a piece of the pie.
I'm also going to chime in a special love for Roger Rabbit. I always manage to find new ways to be impressed by the effects in that movie when I go back and watch it.
I’m impressed with Valiant’s actor (who’s name sadly escapes me). Most of the time he’s either talking to a dummy of Roger or just a green ball or something. But what REALLY amazes me is when he and Roger are in the speakeasy and he’s cutting the cuffs off and bangs his head on the light. Nearly every frame gets Rogers shadow exactly where it should be as the light swings around.
Ana Navarro set to star in the sequel: Who ATE Roger Rabbit.
Check with P. E. T. A. for her availability. You wouldn't want to be accused of land manatee abuse.
KEK
Capitalism is beautiful in all of it's manifestations. Highways, competing road signs and businesses, big cities and skyscrapers, and little towns in between. There's a place for everyone to work and contribute.
If someone gets depressed at the architecture of a Waffle House...I can only conclude that they are lizard people or unfeeling machines.
TBF modernism isn’t very pretty compared to, say, Art Deco, French or English Gothic, Georgian, etc.
I always had a special love for Greek and Roman style. The Temples such as the Parthenon of Athena in the Athenian Acropolis spring to mind. I would love if my clothes and grocery shopping experiance was as in the Agora, or marketplace with their beautiful columns and wide open spaces. It is nice. I must admit, Art Deco is also spectacular, I was introduced to it when I played Bioshock.
Well, that's because the shape of a waffle house means there are tasty treats within. 🤤
People are literally retarded. I'm looking for specific restaraunts sometimes and this kind of stuff helps me find them...
Beautiful building, it doesn't take long to find a blue-haired cheesemaker flipping it off at its glory.
Brilliantly said.
Related point where Bill Whittle elaborates on this by comparing a 7-11 to the Great Pyramid.
I love Bill Whittle. He has done so much to enlighten me!
I need to meet him in person and shake his hand as I look him in the eye and say thank you.
That speech made me happy, teary eyed (happy tears) and the laugh so hard when at the end President Trump makes the comment at the end of his impromptu testimonial speech “so I think the rest of us have a minute left to talk so...”
President Trump is a legend and we the REAL people know it, and he deserves all the love he can get - from the heart, and from the soul - to hell with the Mentally Unhinged tri-bi-polar commie-left, they’ve got nothing on Trump and it shows!!!
WOW. I just listened to that twice (accidentally; auto replay. I am a member of the masses specified below). How do you distill that into a 20 second message to the mentally challenged masses?
Actually watched this speech this morning for the first time. That guy is a bad ass, truly inspirational.
Venezuela has nothing to offer but oil. When oil price skyrocketed in the 00s they did reap the full benefit of it and they prospered, which gave Chavez the illusion and allowed him to give out free stuffs. As soon as oil price went down, their prosperity went away.
I've been trying to red pill some people like that by trying to explain the satisfaction of a career, career advancement and accomplishment. I can't seem to get through. They get their jollies off instant gratification and get their living expenses off the government dole, family or extended family.
I still remember one I spoke to; he had no interest in any of that or even mobility. They're perfectly okay living their entire life in the same house with no job.
Here's a suggestion... Maybe explain to them that a capitalist society is the only one that would permit their current lifestyle. They can do it, but not everyone can. If we went full on Commie, they'd be drug out of their house and forced to work something they didn't want to do. In Cambodia under Pol Pot people were killed for owning glasses. Because they deemed if you were reading you weren't spending enough time working. I've been to Cambodia, and ever since they've started embracing capitalism things have improved....A LOT! The people there were grateful to even get something as simple as their first Burger King.
Your success will largely depend upon their upbringing.
Many people like that were either:
raised by resentful n'er-do-wells who never attained anything of note either -- in short, lazy bums...and their kids have integrated that into their own personality
is the product of one of those "prosperity" homes in which career and advancement (or the appearances of the same) was pursued at the expense of everything else -- in which case they are rebelling against it.
I tend to believe that the best way to handle this is the same way you handle an addict: it has to be their idea to change (things have to get so painful for them that they want to), you have to "be there" when they do decided to change but don't push it or they'll relapse. It isn't easy fyi -- good luck and successful outcome; it's a very noble cause.
Look pal, I’ve illegally downloaded some Hollywood movies and had a great time tearing them to shreds at the same time. Trust me, I’m no communist.
that would describe me as well, still not a commie though
I've been meaning to ask this somewhere, but where do you get motivation from if you lack it?
If you don't have family, then a good strong hobby would help a lot.
EX: You get into cosplay. Your mind gets expanded and innovative, all while acquiring skill, and as you go for bigger and better, the financial demand becomes higher. So then you start striving to earn and accumulate more to feed that need. Next thing you know everything else pops into place in your life.
I'm no expert but I recommend the following:
Stop or at least limit overuse of things like social media, pointless internet browsing, and porn. They screw with the motivation mechanisms in your brain and get you addicted to fake gratification.
Watch some Trump speeches, especially recent ones.
Find things that can make the world a better place and find things that you're good at that can work towards that goal. Every bit counts. It's our duty to society to better ourselves and others.
Lastly, don't overestimate the importance of "feeling motivated." No one who is exceptional at anything got there because they always felt like working for it. You have to know that you're working towards something valuable and use that to keep you going even when you'd rather slack off.
I’d say the only people to advocate for socialism are those who’ve never lived under socialism
There was a video going around here earlier of a maga Korean lady saying exactly this. These spoiled white leftwing liberals have no idea what it's like to live in tough times, let them go live in Korea for a month and see how they change their tune.
She North or South?
https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1282244299309166592
Here it is
That's what he's saying. No doubt he doesn't mean South Korea is exactly living under 'tough times'.
He sounds like an idiot if he can't realize his cushy job was the direct result of capitalism.
Anyone that actually believes in Socialism or Communism is by definition an idiot because it's proven to be a failed economic system that results in nothing but starvation and death.
No, it's much worse than that. It's not that it 'fails' every time, it's that it is an inherently evil system that destroys the freedoms and liberty of the individual by making everyone a completely identical and consequently worthless number in a system. We all become worker ants in a colony, with nothing to live for.
It's much worse even than that. Its inherent evil doesn't just destroy freedom. It destroys the human spirit and fosters resentment and hopelessness.
They tell us "the capitalist is taking the sweat of your brow", but then they build a system where they literally confiscate the product of your effort and give it to whoever needs it more than you do.
Everyone under that system figures out that being a good and honest person is physical and spiritual suicide, and that being a worthless piece of shit and consuming more than you create is the way to go.
That's why it always collapses, and why they always have to start mass-murdering people to keep the rest working and stave off the collapse.
The problem is you could say the same thing about aspects of capitalism. Look at any mega corporation, are the employees treated like people or worthless numbers? Wal-Mart is a great example. The military also falls into that "worthless numbers" mindset as your rank and file grunts will be sacrificed when necessary as "acceptable losses" if the ratio of dead to alive is considered acceptable to complete the mission.
Evil can be present anywhere, so using that as a justification can be tricky. Would you say that the Catholic Church should be torn down because they have a pedo problem in their priesthood, or should those doing wrong be rooted out and the overarching system saved because the core aspects as told in the bible are still good? Failure is one of the few things that can be checked against any system and always shows results.
The difference is that is a choice you can make. You can choose to work at Walmart or not. You can choose to enlist or not. And ultimately even if you do work at Walmart (I guess this doesn't apply to the military), they don't control your entire life. Walmart can never choose what you can and cannot do in your free time, how you spend your money, your beliefs, etc. And they definitely don't have the power to do anything worse than fire you.
B-b-but tHat wASn'T rEAl CoMmUnISm!
A lot of knowledge workers are like that. They never get the hard life experiences that come from doing backbreaking labor. I think everyone should do some carpentry or construction so they understand what real hard work and adversity is. People like Marx's and Bernie can only justify their beliefs because they have never had to work hard for anything in their lives.
He praised communism because communists always dump way too much money into colleges. My father before he fled a communist country went to college there. He said they even paid him to go, he got so much money he didn't even know what to do with it. Would send cash back to his parents at home so they did not starve.
He must have had something to gain by asking students to go to a particular bookstore. Why do you think democrats push for communism? It's because they can line their pockets in the name of "redistribution", same as every communist leader did.
That's because they want a better life but they don't want to put the work in to get the better life. Instead of working to get their ass out of Dunkin Donuts by maybe hitting the weights and getting a higher paying job working construction or working in a factory, they just expect everyone else to pick up the slack for them. They just lie back on their Call of Duty MLG dream instead of putting in the effort to achieve that dream. Personally, I would never shit on someone's dream (not saying you are) because I had teachers shitting on mine my whole life, but if your dream is to be the next PewDiePie and you're not putting in the effort or time to be the next PewDiePie then you don't have my support.
Communists aren't people. Modern day slavers using a system as a whip. Work harder for the state, they'll tell you. Produce more for your mother land. Turn that mud into gold.
Problem with communism is all the gold goes to the top and you don't see any because you don't "need" any according to the state you're working so hard for. And that mud? Still mud. Work as hard as you want, little communists. That mud will always be mud.
It is DEFINITELY Breezewood. I've eaten enough shitty meals at that exit in my life to last ten lifetimes.
If traveling on the big road, next time get hungry an hour sooner or an hour later and hit the Summit Diner in Somerset:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Summit+Diner/@40.0152859,-79.0832756,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89cadc47a1c5cdf7:0x5fbe4cfe265552f4!8m2!3d40.0151546!4d-79.0785867?hl=en
Been there, AWESOME food. Been a while though. I don't make it that far east very often anymore.
I remember Breezewood from my childhood in the 70s. We always stopped there for the night heading east, or west. So many great memories.
Lol thought the exact same, driven through there WAY too many times
This pic of breezewood gets circulated as 'the' go to picture to make a mockery of American capitalism.
However if you've ever driven 70 and connected through Breezewood its a fun visit and just seems different and unique. Its definitely hilly and dense.
It is a rest stop created by God, because it is one of the few areas in that mountainous terrain to loop a huge highway intersection together AND have room for a restaurant and services area.
The route the highways took and where they merged, means every chain business there makes huge profits, winter, summer, rain or shine.
Food quality bad? Yes, but you have no choice. Pay up and move along, thinking that you should plan the stops better, the next time through.
And the pic looks to be taken in the 90s.
The last time I drove through there you couldn't stay on interstate. I'm wondering how long ago 70 went straight through?
I’ve driven through Breezewood enough to say yep, that’s definitely Breezewood, facing east to get on the Turnpike.
And that’s the crossroad between the Midwest and Mid Atlantic so if the author of the article likes people being able to buy things, they should see that picture as beautiful. The goods they purchase? Good chance there is something in their home That passed through there
I see a family coming in from a long drive while on vacation. Kids are passed out in the back. Dad rolls in to the Exxon; he exits to pump gas while mom calls grandma to check in. Dad gets back in and he and mom begin to chat about the next leg of their trip. The kids have stirred and begin to sleepily open their eyes to an unfamiliar location, momentarily confused and unsure. But then they spy the familiar Golden Arches; they smile with widening eyes and utter the phrase so often heard around the country, "Can we get McDonald's breakfast?"
I see America and I'm lovin' it.
That could describe many stories in my childhood. Well put!
Just what I was thinking. I don't see depressing, I see a refuge from a long drive.
hell of a damn story! well done Pede!
That's Americana for most of us!!
Take a look at commie public housing. Saddest, most depressing places on Earth.
The closest thing to commie housing we have are the affordable housing projects and homes owned by the housing authority. Real great neighborhoods to raise your kids. And they all suck money out of the HUD via section 8.
I remember "The Projects" as you drove into Chicago. Building after building of that Brutalist architecture. Boy those were depressing to look at. I can't imagine growing up in one of those.
Commie architecture is the fucking epitome of depressing. Brutal concrete blocks, harsh angles, vapid statues and monuments that try to capture the revolutionary spirit, but only serve to remind you that you are simply living in a new establishment that loves itself, and hates you.
I mean, Bauhaus and other modern minimalist architecture is kinda cool, but I think people connect more to warmer feeling Craftsman or Tudor. I think people are starting to understand that many modern art movements are completely soulless.
i would imagine zoo animals are kinda gamey?
I just lost the gamey...
They call this depressing but I call it warming. When I see this picture I think of all the fun I've had on road trips, stopping at restaurants all over America with my friends, driving through small towns to go to wrestling shows. It takes me back to simpler times as well of family road trips, it takes me back to simplicity. I see nothing depressing about this picture or capitalist architecture.
I get that but I actually do believe that there are some needs for improvement in how spaces are created in our country. Like sure on interstates this is appropriate, but our downtowns and cities should have a little more space for slower movement. The big plazas and beautiful organic medieval villages of europe kind of express what we are lacking in this regard in my opinion.
But back to the point of the photo, yeah it's not like socialism is gonna give us anything beautiful ever.
If you haven't already you should check out the late Sir Roger Scruton. He was all about aesthetics with the thought being if you want to get people to be conservative you have to give them something worth conserving. Extolling the virtues of free markets is all well and good but if you don't give people that emotional connection they aren't really going to care (or at least not as much)
I think sir Roger Scruton is great. I've just listened to some conversations he's had, however, not done any reading of his yet. I'll be sure to check it out
Socialism would bulldoze all of these (because who needs selection, comrade?) and build a soulless brutalist public housing block or fill it with rubble and leave it, because that’s how the USSR fixed their mistakes.
He should run for Mayor of New York City.
(The present mayor has only one year left, and cannot run again.)
Trump could help him with that. Trump knows every brick and stone in New York City, was born there, and raised his children there.
I believe I have found the main thing he's going to push to change in the next 6 months.
Fucking lol at commies trying to represent America with a damn truck stop.
People don't live there folks, you'd probably know this is you knew... anything at all.
These people think that the entire country lives in urban hell like they do. They don't have yards, no wide open spaces. Just pure concrete and steel dystopian bullshit. When I was growing up, I HATED mowing the yard for my grandpa and dad, or doing any yard work in general. But now that I've got my own place I can't tell you how much I find myself outside working on something. The sense of pride and accomplishment from putting up a fence, or planting a garden is something that isn't felt by these people.
Truck stops are pretty doggone American, though. Waystations of the Heartland.
Absolutely. But they're not supposed to look nice. Function completely trumps form in commerical, working class spaces, as opposed to residential.
A vast majority of space in America is natural. Literally nothing, unmanaged space. That would never happen in Socialist countries, they have to manage it somehow, thus destroying any semblance of “nature”.
Uhm... here's some Soviet "architecture":
https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bfe/ae35/08a5/e522/0900/0223/slideshow/shutterstock_716134648.jpg
https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bfe/adfa/08a5/e52c/1e00/016c/slideshow/shutterstock_712187956.jpg
https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bfe/adcc/08a5/e522/0900/0222/slideshow/shutterstock_712187926.jpg
Oof....while I can understand the need to have a replicated design, the least they could have done is painted each block of buildings a different color for both visual relief and easy location identification.
Yeah but that would be slighty vain. And any good Communist knows that vanity is evil, amirite?
They did: there is an infinite amount of shades of grey.
Exactly! It’s serving a purpose. It’s not the ment to be the Notre Dame it’s a stop to stretch your legs, get some gas and a quick meal
But but but capitalism didn't build that! If the government didn't build roads then we wouldn't have all these nice things! /s
https://insomniaclibertarian.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/this-office-space-meme-shows-exactly-how-unnecessary-the-government-is-for-building-roads/
So these commie leftists move to the big city and then complain that there's a big city there. Idiots.
Weird how feminists are awfully obsessed with penises, seeing them everywhere.
Feminism could be cured in a lot of these bitches with a good dicking. Not some pathetic soyboy attempt that's their only experience.
Penis envy. Freud was right lol.
Why do you think they are always trying to force women to act like men? (which makes not only the woman a miserable hag but makes everyone else around her miserable at the same time) They so desperately want to be men that it breaks them when they realize that they cannot no matter how hard they try, which just makes them go even crazier and pushes them into misandry.
Yeah, guns are phallic, bombs are phallic, buildings are phallic. Penises everywhere.
https://i.maga.host/ovjKwoO.jpg
This looks like it is highway running through PA, WV, VA, or Western NY, the highways cut through Appalachia and pump much needed cash into the little towns throughout. This picture is beautiful to me. I just see jobs and then people living good lives because of those jobs.
I was going to post this but I decided to stump for Micky D's instead. :p
Thanks for covering it. This is exactly the sort of thing I would expect GEOTUS to say. This is a beautiful scene and only arrogant, entitled, nihilistic dregs out there would see otherwise.
The general consensus I have read so far is that us conservatives see beauty whereas the misnomered liberals do not. Our philosophy seems truly a happier one.
I also love what you observed about jobs and much needed money in Appalachia. I never looked at it in that light before, but once I had, that picture only deepened in its degree of beauty!
Breezewood, PA. Many places like this. It serves a function. "Architecture" has nothing to do with it.
I'm going to technicality you here. There are very few places exactly like Breezewood that fuck up traffic flow anywhere near the amount that Breezewood does. It fucking sucks to have to drive through. By all means let me exit there and take care of business, but the forced interstate traffic having to drive through stoplights blows.
The last time I drove through Breezewood it was like that. I did stop for a meal. Since then I-70 has been connected through, as I understand it from reading the comments in this thread. The local community fought it, fearing it would cost them revenue. If it's true that I-70 now goes straight through, I bet it has cost them substantial revenue. I certainly wouldn't pull off into that maze if I had the choice.
I agree, I know of nowhere else that following such a major interstate forces you to drive through a business section like that. Simultaneously, in the 70's Mad magazine was lamenting how every city was starting to look the same because of National chains. Similar scenes have been commonplace.
None of it belongs as being labeled "capitalist architecture" though, that's just an infantile mentality. Capitalism is unrivalled in bringing goods where they're needed, with appropriate pricing. The main failure at that is monopolies, which includes healthcare. If those monopolies were broken up like they're supposed to be, I'm not sure we'd have the predatory practices of 'capitalism at its worst,' or if it would actually work. It used to work.
yuck
This is a quality meme and another pithy commie beaten senseless by based Dinesh.
That said, I do think it is valid to criticize the relentless sameness of this kind of landscape.
I want jobs, and prosperity, and good things for America and Americans. I'm not against corporations, but it seems to me that something is out of kilter with the way a few huge chains can dominate entire categories, making it well near impossible for little guys to enter many markets bla bla bla
It's only gotten worse this year, Mom and Pop shops cratered while huge conglomerates like in this picture made flush with cash
Dr. Fauchi says: MegaCorp can stay open, but Smith & Sons Tastee Ribs MUST DIE FOR THE GREATER GOOD
You have read Tragedy & Hope, by Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton's most influential Prof
These sick fucks really believe this bs
You said it better than I ever could.
Yeah jobs are gross.
no but that picture is
A trebuchet?
Capitalism
Has that architecture idiot ever been to Soviet style housing? Talk about bleak.
Well he's not a good architect, so a big giant square block of concrete is all he can manage.
Communists/leftists/postmodernists criticizing ugly architecture is near peak irony.
Dinesh is a national treasure
Out trash is better than their trash.
Based Spicy Intellectual Curry Merchant!
No architecture.
Choose Wisely.
Capitalist architecture: https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trump-tower-new-york
Dinesh is from India. "Poverty" is an entirely different concept there. In India, poverty means you starve to death. In the United States, poverty means you die of type II diabetes. In government-subsidized housing.
Ronald McDonald is a funny and goofy clown who makes kids laugh!
Reminds me of Orlando, Florida...
...Capitalism isn't so bad. After all, it gave us the happiest place on Earth!
"Working in a slave labor camp in North Korea"
Eating your family pet in venezuela. Lol liberals use Venezuela as an example of socialism working. Like yeah, it works if you have the power, if not, eat your dog and cats because the country has no food, and we won't let other nations send aid.
They all think they're going to be in the inner circle of the Maduro of the country. They don't understand they won't live to see that because they're always the first ones killed when the party takes over.
Yeah, a truck stop isn't exactly "architecture"
Not much architecture, but it's a beautifully composed photo, Remove judgment and just look at the colors and forms - I think the photographer should be proud of this!
That is exactly what I have been saying! It is just a good picture! I always like it.
Lol there was a post on the Pinko website Nextfuckinglevel about a Nepal restaurant giving tourist free food for this kung flu epidemic. They were trying to say collectivism is better than individualism and comparing America being to individualistic. Mother fuckers don’t know that the US consistently are number 1 in charity and the Marxist/Communist/Collectivist countries are consistently on the bottom. You can see this clearly in China and Taiwan; or N Korea and S Korea. There are so many retards.
Starved and broke, you gotta break into a zoo to eat a zoo animal
Lol takes a picture of a highway exit businesses as indicative of "architecture"
Socialism sooooo much better....https://images.app.goo.gl/kAQi99TwpG7Vt3SR7
What is commie architecture? Shit-laden streets flooded with garbage and corpses?
Specifically talking architecture... did that person happen to notice that socialist/communist architecture doesn't exist? Also.. if we're talking great architecture, how about Roman, Medieval, Egyptian, and oh maybe Islamic? Pattern: Slavery seems to be directly involved in all.. just noticing the hypocracy in her argument that architecture says anything about how truly great a society is.
https://russiatrek.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/moscow-palace-of-soviets-1.jpg
This is what the Soviets were trying to pass as their new government building before WWII. The Nazis put an end to that project, uh may I say thankfully?
The thing on top is literally a huge Vladimir Lenin statue.
fast freeway to a town called Scoville
It pales compared to most glorious commie brutalist architecture. /s
Just a bad opinion. Modern art consists of commercials and graphic design. Those logos are iconic. It contains a different “beauty” than the classic architecture of other worlds, not that a country’s economic model determines the aesthetic value of art.
Yea, because when I think of great architecture, the first thing that comes to mind is the awe inspiring stalinist style.
Those concrete apartment blocks... just masters of design.
In America you can find sources of food almost anywhere even in the dead of night. I'd rather us not turn into some communist shithole where 99% of population is suffering from starvation.
The thing not mentioned is: In a capitalist system, there is the freedom and initiative, as well as the capital, to change that architecture if people so desire to.
Therefore, if there is a desire to let's say make the stereotypical interstate off ramp spot into an oasis more of the parkland type, then in a capitalist system it will be accomplished. It is what the majority of people want/desire, so they will likely get it due to market forces at work.
Whereas there is absolutely no way that the hulking, barren, cement monstrosities so prevalent in a socialist system will ever come down (unless from decay -- which happens often due to shoddy construction and lack of upkeep -- and taking some poor people with them). That is because the state has put them up, and up they will stay, to change them would be to acknowledge that the state is wrong (plus they provide the money -- which isn't there, having all gone into beautifying the leaders' personal holdings).
"Capitalist" architecture? Oh no, honey, that's LIBERALISM architecture. See, commie faggot """artists""" in the 1950's decided that function was more important than form, and so everything built since then has been a fucking eyesore. People WANT beautiful buildings that have traditional styles. So if architecture was dominated by capitalists, that's what we'd see the most of. Instead it's dominated by artists and hacks.
This right here is the truth. Nothing is more universally hated than modern "function over form" art in all its form
Also, having to eat your own pets.
The Don did well to get him out of prison. Not just because he undid an injustice that the islamoleftists had done to Dinesh, but also because he won the service of a loyal, trustworthy and effective general. Dinesh is good at handing out redpills.
a trashcan!? you were lucky! when I was in Venezuela I had to eat out of an old septic tank!
Commie blocks are just so much aesthetically better