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daelon 27 points ago +29 / -2

I'd support it for architectural reasons alone. Fuck the Hoover building, it's a brutalist concrete commie shitbrick and should never have been built.

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Ronald_Dregan 14 points ago +15 / -1

Tear down the infrastructure and rebuild the personnel. Eliminates all leaking seals.

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DixMcCoy 3 points ago +3 / -0

Needs stronger foundation. And four solid columns, instead of five. Remember that speech?

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DixMcCoy 2 points ago +2 / -0

President was giving a speech at some alphabet agency place, CIA I think?

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Colonel_Dax 5 points ago +6 / -1

The Hoover building was an ugly pile when it was built. The fairy wanted something that would stand out from the average DC architecture. It's been compared to a clothes iron, to damn with faint praise.

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Colonel_Dax 3 points ago +3 / -0

Look up Clyde Tolson, Hoover's lover. Read the book "Public Enemies" by Bryan Burroughs. The book has no particular ax to grind, and pretty much says, out loud, how reporters would comment on how "fastidious" J Edgar was. Gaydar is not new. In the Thirties, that was pretty much saying that Hoover could suck start a car. No one would have pushed it while he was alive, however, and Tolson destroyed all of Hoover's private files the day he died.

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LugNuts 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yes. Rebuild in the shape of an eagle's beak.