Creeping Fascism continues to try and take every inch it can

This building doesn't matter at all. It's 100% pointless to keep it. Housing prices are out of control because we haven't built enough housing for everyone and people like you want to keep ridiculous bullshit like this instead of building places for people to live.

Hong Kong and Taiwan importing democracy into China would have been nice. What could have been.

Technically, you typed it. In prose of a wish.

No I didn't. I said that I wished we would save more of our own history.

You wished it

The laws and beaurocracy of the small-minded to bend the will of others to submission. Because after all, what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine too.

They weren't going to rebuild the pub, they were going to replace it. The order of fines is: pay to rebuild the pub, then pay the fine. Same as the way everyone does it.

> Why would you text someone who took your car, rather than call them?

To cover your ass, and ensure the message arrived, instead of having the call declined because it was an unknown number

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Did I say that?

You live in Toronto I'm assuming? This city loves its heritage dry cleaners as much as it loathes new housing

The US has 500 year old pubs!?

My dad points the pile of rubble where it once stood every time we drive past, and as someone who lives there, this is very very funny

Yeah, it was a rhetorical question but I think you hit the nail on the head.

Japan expresses crazy levels of sexuality because they have no healthy channels for it. The work-life balance there is brutal and unethical, and nobody has the time to have a sexual relationship, let alone raise a family.

Dude these people broke the law, that's the issue. The problem isnt that they tore down an old pub per say, it's that so often developers like this just willfully ignore the law, take a slap on the wrist fine, and do whatever they were gonna do anyway. For once, in a different country, a company breaking the law actually had the consequence of them not getting what they wanted out of it. It's refreshing.

How does Japan have a population crisis? Every time I hear a news story from Japan it's about some crazy sex related story. They should be popping out babies aplenty.

No it wasn’t. It had exactly one notable feature of the architectural style. A ‘floating roof’ aesthetic that was ruined by an addition put in when the building wasn’t even a decade old. The only reason it was a “great example” was because all the better buildings in that style were demolished. But even it is was, the building would not have been worth preserving.

It was built in the 60’s for Christ’s sake and was built to attract car-faring customers. Silver Spring has since grown to be one of the largest places in Maryland. The Silver Spring master plan calls to make the community a more walkable community, especially with a Purple Line station being built close by.

A small one-story building close to downtown and transit was not serving the needs of the community. In case you’re not a local, rents have gone up 20% in Montgomery County and our children are being forced to move away. Think about that before you say you want to preserve an old (but actually fairly new) building whose purpose is out of step with the rest of the community.

It was a good day when the planning board denied the preservation application. Which was imposed by busybodies in the county against the family that owned the building after the dry cleaner failed.

Nah, Your not getting it mate. They're saying that history matters, just not yours.

Imagine paying $100,000 for this level of quality and security. Tesla drivers are rubes.

We have Grade II listed council estates and high rises. It's a joke.

You weren't forced out. You could have just plucked money from the same magic money tree you were expecting the government to use.

Were you forced into some sort of warzone, natural disaster or humanitarian crisis, or did you just have to move to a different town?

listed buildings are a giant pain in the ass, and the only people who care are fetishists who get off to the idea of "muh heritage" and never actually go and visit the buildings they'll ardently defend online.

That’s not as clever as you think it is.

In one useless building is demolished.

In the other, a person, a living human being, is forced out of his hometown.

Do you really think my statement comes anywhere close to being as offensive and callous as yours? Explain it to me slowly.