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[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 108 points 1 year ago

That's in Italy (Milan) and it is due to lack of public funds to pay for monument restoration.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago

Religious monuments in italy are owned by the catholic church. If they are in need of money perhaps the pope could sell same of their golden gauntlets or their apartments in london

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Ambrosiano

The italian goverment doesn't lack money either, politicians just raised their salary.

The really essence of this building is to be an AD for the church, which by the time it was build was a state with an army.

[-] Delta_V@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the whole thing is a monument to evil men exploiting the locals.

[-] STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

The amount the Italian government makes in taxes should EASILY cover any restoration. I think the correct term you are looking for is economic mismanagement.

[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago

Or the Municipality of Milan, which is from an opposition party and in continuous struggle with the central government (and the regional one).

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Seems more like a bad photoshop to me.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

It looks weird because it's a screen sponsored by Samsung, you can also see it on Apple Maps:

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Huh. I don't like it but I get it.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 37 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

id still rather have no ad tho

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] SharkAttak@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

*restoration

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] trebor8201@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago
[-] Bosht@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year 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?

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Tax the churches now!

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] IAmLamp@fedia.io 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year 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.

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year 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.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

I didnt even notice that they even completely covered the wall in a fake facade at first. Like "oh we wanna protect the look of this beautiful monument" but also "here look at this advertisement!"

[-] Norgur@fedia.io 19 points 1 year ago

This does more look like some sort of scaffolding for repair work

Now im wondering if whats depicted on it, is even actually there behind it.

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year 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.

[-] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

God those are some ugly fucking glasses.

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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