• Grayox@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    make better agi prop, the US has the most gorgeous metro system in the world. Facts dont care about your feelings. (If you dont like brutalist architecture you probably wont like it and I’m sorry)

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        1 year ago

        In case anyone is wondering, that’s Komsomolskaya station, built in 1952. Later stations tended to not be so opulent.

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            1 year ago

            That’s not opulent, that’s just bad taste. The other one was absolutely beautiful.

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                None of the design elements work with each other, to start with. Then it’s like after the fact, some shmuck from the propaganda office told the architects to stick a stupid looking fighter jet in there. It’s like a weak man’s idea of a strong design.

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                    1 year ago

                    It really doesnt have a cohesive design motif to it and does feel like strongman propaganda.

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            1 year ago

            I think I owe you an apology. I took your initial comment as you trying to insult me, given our past interactions. Not that I wasn’t giving an honest opinion on the design itself, but otherwise I would have just kept it to myself.

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          Funny you’d say that, because even though the first plans for it date back to the Russian Empire, it was the communists under Stalin who actually built it.

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      Yeah. DC has some very pretty metro stations. NYC has SO MANY stops in Manhattan it was silly when visiting.

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      I distinctly remember having to stop and admire the station the first time I went through there.

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      1 year ago

      This metro system doesn’t have enough parallel track to allow for night time operation or maintenance.