the 9/11 memorial shopping mall

14 points

Calatrava isn’t a fascist he just only does one thing. The Oculus looks the same as Liege-Guiellemins, which looks the same as the Milwaukee modern art museum, which looks the same as the Valencia city of science, etc etc.

permalink
report
reply
14 points

Why did they even rebuild the tower lol. Was it REALLY that necessary for the economy? If they wanted it to be dramatic they would’ve just left it a hole instead of making a grander building to replace them

permalink
report
reply
25 points

I think the best response would have been to just build exactly the same buildings again. On the whole America’s best possible response to 9/11 would have been to just pretend it didn’t happen.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

That was literally one of the most popular plans. I remember watching a documentary and there was some old cowboy looking fella in the back of some big public meeting regarding what to do and he was all like “build em back bigger and better than ever!!!”

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

There’s two decent responses:

  1. You build it up better than ever and be like “Yeah fuck off, blow this one up too, you fucking nerd, we’ll just build it up again! 'merica!!”

  2. You do some self-reflecting and figure out why someone would want you to suffer something like this fix those issues, and THEN you build it up better than ever.

or you know, you can start forever wars half a world away because gotta keep those numbers up or capitalism will fail :amerikkka-clap:

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Yeah I think I first encountered the idea on Penn & Teller’s show, seemed like the best idea to me at the time and still does. There is something poetic to One WTC being an overdesigned, empty shopping mall though.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

And a lot cheaper. The WTC complex of 7 buildings cost $4bn, the war in Afghanistan cost £2.3tn . Imagine instead of invading Afghanistan your response to 9/11 was to build a THOUSAND TOWERS with money left over.

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

The tower just got 10 feet taller, believe me. :cheeto-man:

permalink
report
parent
reply

Imagine a different version of the US where they did that math in 2001 and decided instead to build a replica of the twin towers in every city with a population of over 50,000 people at that time. That’s 601 cities that get a free skyscraper business park, and it costs the same, 2.4 trillion dollars.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Biggest problem with that is that the twin towers had some of the worst engineering that the 70s had to offer

permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points

9/11 memorial shopping mall

Come on now. This is beyond parody.

permalink
report
reply

Al-Qaeda would leave this standing as a monument to their success.

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

Controversial take among everyone but I actually like the new wtc

permalink
report
reply

yeah this building fucking sucks. looks like a dinosaurs rib cage, truly an eyesore

Death to America

permalink
report
reply
2 points

looks like a dinosaurs rib cage

the steel and concrete skeleton of collapsed buildings

permalink
report
parent
reply

memes

!memes@hexbear.net

Create post

dank memes

Rules:

  1. All posts must be memes and follow a general meme setup.

  2. No unedited webcomics.

  3. Someone saying something funny or cringe on twitter/tumblr/reddit/etc. is not a meme. Post that stuff in !the_dunk_tank@www.hexbear.net, it’s a great comm.

  4. Va*sh posting is haram and will be removed.

  5. Follow the code of conduct.

  6. Tag OC at the end of your title and we’ll probably pin it for a while if we see it.

  7. Recent reposts might be removed.

  8. Tagging OC with the hexbear watermark is praxis.

  9. No anti-natalism memes. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Community stats

  • 26

    Monthly active users

  • 17K

    Posts

  • 143K

    Comments