Liberals prefer the look of rows upon rows of homeless drug addicts.
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“At least America gives people the choice to be homeless if they want to” – some lib reading this
housing units for tenants in Hong Kong.
Scary.
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‘WE ANTICOMMUNISTS ARE PERFECTLY NORMAL PEOPLE’
Cross posting from ShitCapitalistsSay on Lemmy.ml (https://lemmy.ml/post/471835/comment/282834):
That sub LOOOOVEs to hate Hong Kong. What they can never, ever, answer is this: what the hell is Hong Kong supposed to do other than high density housing? They have a crazy high population and very little space (reminder that it’s HK that wants the restricted border with Mainland China, mostly because they don’t want mainlanders moving there, but it also means HKers can’t easily move to the mainland if they think it’s too crowded). Anyway, people need and deserve housing, and given the population density, housing density of this magnitude is simply necessary. Or would you rather have an American style suburb for half the city and the other half just a giant vagrant slum? Oh wait you’d post about the slum too, which would be reasonable, except you’d definitely be asking “why can’t they all just have their own detached house with built-in garages like we all have in Fuckingnowheredale USA???”
Basically, it’s blind hatred because it looks ugly (subjective BTW, I like it), and I’m sure some China hate is in there too, but as soon as you ask them to come up with an alternative, they simply can’t.
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Oh no houses stacked on each other in a very walkeable and public transport friendly city, in a densly populated area with not much useable land. Where’s the car heavy suburb???
Cool perspective.
The same people that think this is dystopian will look at Japanese micro apartments and think “so cool!”
In that video, he just casually states that some Japanese apartments don’t allow foreigners and then displays a note saying that’s an understatement, as if it’s completely normal to deny housing based on where you’re from.
Japan is so cool! Bullet trains, cherry blossoms, cat cafes, apartheid, truly the country that has everything!
People claim to hate socialist architecture, and yet love “cyclopean ruins” in video games.
I call bullshit.
If those buildings were ruins, these same people would likely love them
Because with ruins, they don’t have to think about inconvenient things like poverty or inequality because everyone’s long dead.
Among other things, yes. Plus ruins are there to be looted and are generally a sign of some failure. The buildings in OP are fresh and fully functional, a reminder of the critics’ own failures
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