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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Notice how not a single person down below gives one single flying fuck about the ad. Next they'll try to smack you in the face with an add on a fly swater just to get your attention. And big boobs on the fly swater probably.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How utterly revolting. I get peoples comments about religion, but that doesn't somehow remove the fact that this is a beautiful piece of architecture being marred by a disgusting shitty advert.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Agreed. What's even the point of arguing in favor of the cultural legacy of a given religion in shaping a city's architectural history if they pull shit like this?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Pretty cool glasses though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ladies take note - these glasses look cool on a supermodel

There is a 99% chance they will make you look like a blind pensioner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

My grandma would love it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of evil capitalists, but I think I'd take even them over organised religion, which is at best just a protection racket / cult of control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

which is at best just a protection racket / cult of control.

And capitalism isn't this because.... ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Religion indoctrinates you into replacing reason with faith in your earliest formative years, when you don't have the tools to realize what they're doing to you, which I think accounts for the cult of control thing.

Not sure I'd take them over religion though, given that capitalism is on the tracks to destroy our actual ecosystem. I'm going to be a centrist on this issue and claim that both suck. Very brave, I know.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Religion indoctrinates you into replacing reason with faith in your earliest formative years,

Capitalism indoctrinates you into replacing reason with consumerism, individualism and classism - and let's not forget capitalism's alter ego, fascism... which adds the white supremacism, militarism, nationalism and misogyny. And it does this long before you hit puberty.

Religion, on the other hand, is a mixed bag - it can be used to to support the above, or it can be used to teach that capitalists should be chased out with a whip woven out of horsehair (or something).

So no... I'll take religion and I won't look back.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Tax the churches now!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

It does convey the (accurate) message that money is more important to the church than its message or its congregation.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The church is under construction. What you see behind the ad is a printed photo of what the church will look like, it is not actual architecture.

This is like a poster on the wood walls they place around construction sites, it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh wow, that's a really weird thing to put on a church. I mean, I like ladies, but I'd never put giant pictures of them up on a building as a permanent installment. To each their own, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

We're aware of that, it's the popup advert that we can't click to close that's depressing :-/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

*restoration

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)

id still rather have no ad tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

True, but this is likely to be helping fund the reconstruction/repair work. So it's kinda benefits everyone if it's saving money from the public purse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a church soooo, still a no in my book. To many pedo priests getting outted atm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean I agree but cool religious architecture is still worth maintaining. If only we could start building cathedrals for things like Denny's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

ask if they're okay with it from behind though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Do you think people raging over pictures of it on socmed are part of the appeal to marketers?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Hmm let's go see some interesting architecture.. oh shoot I forgot i need to buy stuff I don't need. Thanks samsung.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

🌎🧑‍🚀Is nothing sacred?🔫🧑‍🚀Never was.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Saw something similar when I was in Paris at the Louvre last fall. I couldn't believe my eyes at first. As if the tourist masses (myself not excluded, sadly) weren't bad enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

God those are some ugly fucking glasses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

When I'd only seen the thumbnail and not the whole pic, I thought the title was talking about stupid glasses.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Who on earth chose to build a church behind this beautiful Samsung™ 4K screen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

umm, you need something to mount the giant screen, don't you? So might as well have some class while you're at it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I don't know if after building a 4K screen, a church like that could ever be built.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is definitely scaffolding erected to facilitate repairs. Of all use cases for advertising, I cannot possibly complain about this one as it seems to be funding the repairs and the ugly scaffolding is being camouflaged by the dressing that mimics the underlying surface. Yeah, its always gonna suck to a certain degree to see ads plastered on a landmark like this, but if it's only temporary during repairs and helps maintain the building then I'm all for it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh great……. CONTEXT. NOW what am I supposed to do with all of this boiling rage?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Ask why a historical monument has to rely on advertising dollars to be repaired. Why the kinds of organisations that would put a garish ad billboard over the top are the ones with all the power in our society.

Just because the billboard is funding repairs doesn't mean it's good. It's emblematic of how much is being hoarded by capitalists.

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