Conservatives don’t take well to parody, which makes it work even better
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91·9 days agoIs this a ad?
12·13 days agoWill this lead to introspection?
Of course not
It’s good to have two alternatives the ideologically cancel each other out
41·14 days agoHe outsmarted them
Tap for spoiler
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I know. And would, bit the new Trump Putin alliance places Europe in a doubtful strategical position that quite a few of the maga crowd will squirm about.
I think they will however, gladly stroke at the Europeans that have gloated about their healthcare and democratic values over the Americans for two decades.
The anger over that will easily surpass the self reflection and introspection needed for criticism about their own governement.
4·16 days agoI’d say indie should be a smaller company, not one of the industry pillars.
But it’s arguable, their style is different, to say the least.
2·16 days agoNo worries!
Perhaps I phrased it badly.
No, not at all. My comment wasn’t dismissive of your post at all. I just was intrigued by the paradox of fashion and brutalism.
If there was any critique in my comment is more directed at the source you quoted. It’s really forcing the Corbusier angle a bit too much, in my honest opinion. It’s late brutalism, with a bit too much beatification going on to be true to the style.
I do like the building a lot and it’s intriguing to see the headway they made with concrete casting to archieve the rounder shapes.
“let’s use concrete only because it’s the fashion”
This is a paradoxical sentence in this context. Raw material was used because it was practical and functional, but at the same time it was fashionable too.
It’s precisely what fashion is, a trend in design in a certain art school. However the lack of an aesthetic ideology does make it anti-fashion too.
One could say that the embellishments that mellow out the raw/harshness of the brutalist style is antithetical to it, though. It’s think that Corbusier would take offense with his name associated with this.
Hah indeed, thnx for making my typo make sense!
Even earlier on people mused on this particular habit. In 1577 French essayist Étienne de la Boétie wrote his Discourse on voluntary servitude where he explored why people seemed to prefer an autocrat who robbed them over freedom.
To him, the great mystery of politics was obedience to rulers. Why in the world do people agree to be looted and otherwise oppressed by government overlords?
According to de la Boétie people prefer being a courtier to a decisive overlord over making their own choices, backseating and deferring responsibility rather than deciding for themselves.
It’s
dadsad that in 450 years that doesn’t seem to have changed.
I’ll sit in the corner and nod
I tried getting into the habit of sitting down and found that there’s a topological problem for me. See the angle of my dongle is thus that the stream hits the bowl in such a way that some of it escapes under the brim.
This doesn’t happen all of the time, but often enough to put me off the practice. As having to mop up after every fifth time is a bit annoying and feels less hygienic as having a little splatter.
https://www.x-rates.com/graph/?from=USD&to=EUR&amount=1
There was a bit of an upswin for the dollar since nov 5… weirdly, not sure how that guy inspires confidence
I think you just gave it a raison d’ être