Happy President’s Day! 🗽
go get your own George Washington statue at: https://t.co/YeANwOmaio
all proceeds go toward a 50 ft tall statue of Washington!
cities shape the future, and many new cities/towns are being built in America right now 🇺🇸
1.) California Forever is a company building a new walkable city of 50k people an hour north of the Bay Area! @CAForever
19 of the 20 largest statues in the world are in Asia, 13 of which were built in the last 20 years.
Fuck degrowth.
Let’s build inspiring things and celebrate the engineers and workers that build them.
I never want to see the world’s tallest building in another country again.
We invented skyscrapers and we should DOMINATE building the tallest buildings ever dreamed of.
What are the most impressive things* we could** build if we all really wanted it?
*I’m thinking infrastructure or technology mega projects but whatever
**no new scientific knowledge needed/sufficient resources available near earth
I keep hearing this thing where people ask, “why don’t billionaires build monuments anymore?”
First of all, they never did that much. Almost all major monuments are built by governments.
Second of all, they still do. Quick thread of monuments recently built by billionaires.
the tallest statue in America 🗽
- is only 151 ft tall
- wasn’t built by us, it was built by the French
- is dwarfed by nearly all skyscrapers - looks unimpressive in comparison
- was unveiled in 1886 - over 135 years ago
America needs more grand and inspiring monuments!
It's embarrassing that the U.S. only makes it in 52nd place in largest statues, that being the Statue of Liberty built 130 years ago and 4x shorter than the tallest statue.
We need a statue in every large city. We need to take the Top 10 Largest. We need to be statue-maxxing.