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Le fantasme de la Commune de 1871 dans l'imaginaire collectif de gauche, alors même qu'elle n'a abouti à rien et qu'elle a engendré de nombreux désastres (bilan humain très lourd, incendie de monuments magnifiques, perte de la mémoire généalogique des parisiens à raison de la destruction massive des registres de naissance et de mariage), va engendrer de nombreuses conséquences délétères.
L'ultra-gauche et les anarchistes, ici à l’œuvre, pensent que la grandeur de leur cause est mesurée à la lumière des bâtiments détruits. Ils ont vu que l'incendie de Notre-Dame avait causé une émotion mondiale. Ils veulent créer, à nouveau, cette émotion en montrant au monde l'ampleur de leur colère. Ils sont comme Erostrate face au temple d'Artémis.
Ils se justifient en affirmant que ces dégâts ne sont rien face aux violences d’État, quelles soient économiques, politiques ou policières. En somme, leur souffrance justifie tout.
Ce sont les mêmes qui jettent de la peinture ou de la soupe sur les tableaux des musées. Le matériel ne compte pas pour eux. Il est éphémère, il peut être reconstruit. Ils n'ont aucun sens du beau. Et quand ils l'ont, ils veulent le détruire car il symbolise quelque chose qu'ils ne peuvent pas créer eux-mêmes et qui leur est donc éminemment supérieur, outre le discours marxiste hors d'âge consistant à dire que le beau est bourgeois.
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Éternellement, les symboles qui font peur à ceux qui sèment le chaos.
Voilà pourquoi la Commune chercha d’abord à faire tomber la colonne de Vendôme.
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Perhaps the best thing to remember when we see riots and arson attacks on historic buildings in France, or hundreds of drug addicts sprawled out on the streets of San Francisco, or thousands of murders per year in America’s cities, is that things don’t have to be this way. There are places in the world that you can visit that are not like this. There are a set of policy choices that we can make at any time that would ensure these things simply don’t happen, if our civilization had the will to enact them
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If you look at the Italian Renaissance or the Dutch Golden age, they coincide with these leaps of capitalism: innovations in finance, banking, stock markets. Same for Belle Époque and the Vienna circles around 1900, both funded by the new bourgeois wealth.
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In general, I just like when things are what they are. I like when vandals vandalize, and I like when the city cleans it up. I like clever criminal defense attorneys and ruthless prosecutors. I like high culture snobs and smelly punks. I like when everyone plays their role.
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The housing debate happening in Alberta right now only validates my belief that YIMBYs, developers, and architects need to become more aesthetically conscious.
Too much of what we build modern is ugly/uncanny.
The trade off for more lenient land use for density has to be paired with higher standards for materials and some commitment to honoring character of places in design.
I’ll give you a perfect example.
Recently, the city of Toronto released its pre-permitted multiplex designs.
While they’re not bad, the real miss was not designing them in a way that they actually appear more *timeless* to the neighbourhoods they’d get built in.
Pic 1 - City design
Pic 2 - Alternative
I know some will tell me that people will still object to development and that’s true.
But far more people are fine with things that make where they live look nicer. It’s about respect. If existing neighbours don’t see the change growth brings as making their neighbourhoods nicer, they’ll reject it.
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This might be the first time I've seen NIMBYs leapfrog the municipal government and go up to the province to block housing development.
It's a bad policy move, but ultimately it's people too young to vote yet who will suffer the main consequences. Sorry, kids.
Over the past few months, endless Albertans have told us the same story.
They saved for years to buy a single family home on a quiet street. They picked that neighbourhood on purpose, because of the park at the end of the block or the school two streets over or the neighbours who watch out for each other.
Then one morning the house next door came down, with no notice, and later a 16 unit complex went up in its place, with nowhere for anyone to park and no consideration for the neighbourhood.
Those are not complaints. They are people describing the place they built a life in with their family.
So today we are acting. Edmonton will return to the density and height rules that were in place before 2024 and common sense minimum parking requirements, utility and water infrastructure considerations are coming back. Calgary will hold the line it set when it repealed blanket rezoning. Both cities will take a hard look at their bylaws and come back with something more balanced.
Alberta needs more homes. We are building more of them than almost anywhere in Canada. But a home is more than a house, and a neighbourhood is more than a supply of lots.
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Liberal posters during #1848twt:
❗️❗️🔥🔥THE GRAND DUCHY OF TUSCANY JUST PASSED A CONSTITUTION🔥🔥❗️❗️
❗️❗️THE GLOBAL ARISTOCRACY IS FINISHED ❗️❗️
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I just found out there's a legitimate version of God Only Knows sung by Brian in the early days and oh my god🥺
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This definitely has to go to SCOTUS
The U.S. Supreme Court building itself has statues of Jesus, Moses & Muhammad
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state’s highest court, has ruled against the City of Quincy installing two Catholic statues—of St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian—on its public safety building.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts state government is considering legislation to establish a commission that would recommend Muslims for government appointments.
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“The canoe is to Canada what the horse is to the United States—the prime vehicle by which the land was first explored and first grasped imaginatively. American myths involve heroics rides, but the great Canadian journey is the canoe trip.”
~Wayland Drew, 1978
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It's kind of funny to go back and read all of these hyper-erudite early 50s sociologists with full knowledge that their modern intellectual descendants are MBA programs and American sociology departments lol
like... what *happened*???
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being a cyclist kinda sucks politically because your options are always
Candidate A: loves bike infrastructure, but refuses to jail bike thieves
Candidate B: wants to send bike thieves to the gulag, but hates cyclists
anyway my bike was stolen last week, RIP
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Jugendstil hydroelectric power station, built in 1905 in Heimbach, Germany. Designed by architect Georg Frentzen (1854–1923), the power station is still in operation.
Pics: Andreas Lechtape
