But most people aren’t really complaining about there being apartments. They complain about paying for the apartments. It’s not the actual visuals that come up. That’s at best a tertiary concern, it rarely comes up if ever. The image of the soviet dacha or Khrushchevkas is a bit of a fringe reference for most americans, definitely in the context of discussing housing the homeless. They’re just not really linked unless you REALLY want to stretch the point and discuss housing projects. But that really would be a stretch. You’d be better off dropping the soviet apartment idea altogether, because housing projects are less about visuals and more about who occupies them.
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.
Honestly I just feel like you can scroll around this comment section and see the various ways this has been interpreted to see that, at the end of the day, it’s just too unclear here.
You’re possibly right here. The meme is just framed too poorly to be sure lol
But most people aren’t really complaining about there being apartments. They complain about paying for the apartments. It’s not the actual visuals that come up. That’s at best a tertiary concern, it rarely comes up if ever. The image of the soviet dacha or Khrushchevkas is a bit of a fringe reference for most americans, definitely in the context of discussing housing the homeless. They’re just not really linked unless you REALLY want to stretch the point and discuss housing projects. But that really would be a stretch. You’d be better off dropping the soviet apartment idea altogether, because housing projects are less about visuals and more about who occupies them.
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.
Honestly I just feel like you can scroll around this comment section and see the various ways this has been interpreted to see that, at the end of the day, it’s just too unclear here.
You’re possibly right here. The meme is just framed too poorly to be sure lol
Exactly. It’s not hard to keep the exterior of those buildings looking nice. You just have to pay someone to maintain it.