actually infuriating
The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement
Submitted 11 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They paved paradise and put up some pavement…
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Subtitle to the story of civilization
arin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Truely mild compared to all the scientific executions that happened
Wazowski@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fitting for the shitshack it has become.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Hows drainage?
Also they kept the much cheaper pavers around it, which looks stupid as hell.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Here I was glad to see Trump didn’t insist on making it rose gold they didn’t have to change the name
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would have returned it to nature with native plants. Krasnov created a smaller Red Square and now he wants a fucking Ballroom for $200 million! WTF!
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Am I missing something here? It looks like the roses are still there and he just paved over the big useless lawn.
Anyone else see this? Those rose bushes are still clearly there on the right side of the image. Ifball were talking about is the replacement of some shit grass anyways, who gives a fuck?
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It looks tacky and shitty. Like something a child rapist with no taste would like.
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
So does a fucking lawn. Actually, imo, lawns are worse. It’s a perfect representation of the toxicity of the “American dream”. It’s an unnatural landscape that’s inhospitable to life, sort of like the concrete, but it gets some weird psychological pass because it’s green. It’s shit either way.
Talking about “he ripped out the rose garden” is just more sensationalism horseshit when the roses are right there, just fuckin dandy. He tore out a lawn that was equally as shit.
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Lawns are bad, yes, replacing lawn with hard impermeable surface, worse.
It’s as if someone turned their whole front yard in to a parking lot.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
And that looks good to you?
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I mean i would’ve preferred clover instead but the concrete is precisely as useful to bugs as that grass was.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Think of the savings in lawnmower fuel, it’s so ecological!
Elaine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Agreed, the whole clutching of pearls over the rose garden is ridiculous. It’s widely accepted that lawns are an unnecessary flex. This area is used for seating so nothing but some grass that was probably in need of constant repair because of all the traffic. This is a big nothing sandwich.
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Right, a marble floor is not a flex at all
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
[deleted]KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
A lawn? Absolutely not. It’s a resource sink for no other reason that vanity. If they weren’t going to put in something useful, like clover or any actual productive plant life, then I’d rather see it capped off and no longer watered. Golf courses too for that matter. Pave them over entirely and build dense urban housing instead on a national scale.
quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Yeah that grass square always seemed strange to me even as a kid, since they hosted outdoor parties for visiting foreign dignitaries and grass isn’t the best surface for fancy shoes, especially women’s heels. My brothers and I would sometimes wonder if it opened up to reveal a secret missile base or Aurora landing pad.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Fucking disgusting
flango@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
But when?
FloatingAlong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The remodeling started in March or April.
StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 11 months ago
"Rose garden"
thedruid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Should make a small nature center there and lead by example. But nah…
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Love to see a change.org petition to this effect
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
A change in architecture to accompany the change in form of government.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I was expecting it to be vulgarly gilded. The orange utan is letting himself go.
Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s SO plain looking, I’m surprised too! He usually goes for “tackiest possible approach” so this feels like an oversight, even though its objectively a better outcome.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 months ago
he only does it indoors, like with the 200million ball rooms hes going to do.