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OMFG the only reason you get these sort of fast food/gas stations/middling hotel clusters is because they’re next to an INTERSTATE EXIT, placed there by CENTRAL PLANNERS. God these fucks are so baby brained that they think anything they like in society just exists naturally and not as the result of active planning and processes.

I hate to tell Josn this, but that image was created by central planners. Urban planners decided how to zone that area and, most likely created an incentive for a gas station to sprout up right around there, from which they expected something like this to develop.
The urban planners just thought such a development was a good idea, as compared to the planners of Moscow, who thought greenspace and housing was pretty cool.
Both types of planner thought their type was the most "efficient". They just had different parameters for what efficiency meant.

Sorry. Not Beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian jingoism is going to change that.

I'd prefer this to a 15 minute city that KILLS CHRISTIANS

one of the corporations in this image, Exxon, is partially responsible for various genocides in the middle east and the American war in Iraq

another one of the pictured corporations, Sunoco, is owned by Energy Transfer. That's the company that owns the Dakota Access Pipeline. In 2016, police gave over 300 protestors hypothermia by spraying them with water hoses in sub-freezing temperatures.

Another depicted company is Shell, and they're Dutch so do I really need to say more

As Jordan Peterson once said:

"Sorry. Not Beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that."

What’s missing is the 2 mile long line of people waiting in their cars for the food bank because they’re excited for the chaos of the market

This American humaaaan city is quite similar to the ones we have on Ferenginar.

Love the idea that this shit is the equivalent of a bustling Byzantine marketplace

Sure it might lack the closeness, the public space for walking, the people talking and haggling, the smells and the displays, but it has the only thing that is truly valuable about a marketplace which is shit being sold in it

This photo is exponentially more beautiful than anything posted by bluechecks

Red team said thing bad. It good! Me blue team!

I can both smell and hear this picture and they're both unpleasant and repugnant.

I don’t think anyone should Trust the underlying motivations of anything Carlson ever says, but this wasn’t too bad, and will resonate with the working class’ lived experience, so, may Eakle’s rebuttal fall on deaf ears.

Wait until he finds out a lot of Western Capital cities like Washington DC and Paris were largely the result of central planning.

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

It isn’t fit for humans now,

There isn’t grass to graze a cow.

Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens

Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,

Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,

Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-

A house for ninety-seven down

And once a week a half a crown

For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin

Who’ll always cheat and always win,

Who washes his repulsive skin

In women’s tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak

And smash his hands so used to stroke

And stop his boring dirty joke

And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add

The profits of the stinking cad;

It’s not their fault that they are mad,

They’ve tasted Hell.

It’s not their fault they do not know

The birdsong from the radio,

It’s not their fault they often go

To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars

In various bogus-Tudor bars

And daren’t look up and see the stars

But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care

Their wives frizz out peroxide hair

And dry it in synthetic air

And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough

To get it ready for the plough.

The cabbages are coming now;

The earth exhales.

I remember some discourse where if you zoom out it's not an urban hellsprawl and it's actually like a haven for truckers/people going long distances on an interstate.

You can still argue that it's an ugly aesthetic. It's gross and gray with logos everwhere. Everything that nature isn't touching is ugly in this photo. A big honking cafeteria with some central space and a park would look infinitely better. You could put workout equipment to stretch your legs and pump the heart during a long trek and it would be like a literal sanctuary. Each restaurant has to reinvent the wheel and atomize everyone with their own building instead of just getting one janitorial service, one sequestered building, and leaving a whole lot of space for not advertising and not individual parking lots. There's no place to sit or exist unless you're spending money. The most beauty around you are the vistas full of things that people didn't build. The American mind can no longer imagine a public space used for something besides commerce. You can have all your competition and civil religion in the cafeteria. For as far as this picture is concerned it can even facilitate competition by helping truckers. It just doesn't have to contribute to making hell on Earth.

I was curious about what Breezewood looked like today and after taking a short drive down the street in google maps, I think half these signs are either gone or just decrepit now. It looks like the rest of the bombed out aesthetic post 2008 financial crash you see in a bunch of places in the US.