• Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it fails, but it does come from a specific cultural perspective.

    Those are “ugly Soviet buildings” built by the government. That already communicates cost and the unwillingness to bear it in the US.

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      Nonono, it’s unreasonable for taxes to go toward helping the poor. They live on the street and starve by their own choice. No one wants to pay for those wretched people!

      Where are the police when you need them to quickly usher the inconvenient truth of my selfish lifestyle out of my sight?

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        1 year ago

        You’re in lemmy.ml, a Marxist instance, reading a meme criticizing capitalism and saying that Soviet apartment buildings are a stretch?

        No, they’re the whole point of the meme. Paying for them is the point, who paid for the Soviet buildings? The message is that the Soviet Union built these and American capitalists allow people to live in tents on the street (while calling those buildings ugly). Housing projects would be a perfect “yeah but” except they are very low priority and not so common.

        Ugly Soviet buildings are themselves a meme. Up there with the hammer and sickle and the color beige when Americans visualize the Soviet Union.