Hell yeah. Having a humongous area of grass that needs to be moved and watered reserved for a boring sport when there are tons of people paying ridiculously high rent to be able to cram themselves into some tiny closet. Fuck the CCP tho.
I just drove past a golf course yesterday and thought we should do this!
May I ask why? My old town had about a dozen golf courses when I was growing up. Now when I drive by it’s all housing developments other than the few that remain. It used to be a more rural area.
I’d much rather see green space and golf courses than housing developments. While I completely agree that there is a housing shortage, it appears that root issue isn’t solved by more housing developments on golf courses. Instead, why not convert existing buildings (such as unused office spaces) into public housing. Or, prevent corporations or investment firms from buying up real estate/housing to turnaround and jack up costs.
I may be biased but I’ve had these views before picking up golf. I mainly use golf as a way to stay active as I’m getting older and get outside in the fresh air.
While I loathe golf courses and am always happy to take the piss out of the “elites”, this feels like something more.
This might just be the CCP flexing political power over Hong Kong in general, but I’d be curious to see what the primary motivation behind this decision was. Obviously it wasn’t building public housing, that’s just a good cover story with a positive side effect.
the CCP can’t possibly do something in the interests of the people, their must be something dastardly behind this.
Your just as bad as the tankies who think u.s. aid is just a CIA front, or the Republicans who think welfare is just Democrats keeping black people poor and dependent.
The u.s government and CCP aren’t just full of villains trying to oppress people, both have the capacity for empathy and compassion and do exercise it often.
That’s not what I said, but I love how you misquoted me in the framework of your own personal warped version of reality.
Read the subtext of the article. This location was obviously selected for a politically motivated reason, and I’d be interested to know what that was i.e. was it a general show of power (boring), or was it some hyper specific personal conflict with a prominent member of the club and a CCP party member (interesting).
That doesn’t mean the intent behind the CCP policy isn’t good, well intentioned, or positive. But that’s not surprising to me, so it’s not very interesting. What drove the politics behind the decision to raze a Golf Course to spite HK elite, is very interesting, at least to me.
the primary motivation behind this decision was. Obviously it wasn’t building public housing
That doesn’t mean the intent behind the CCP policy isn’t good, well intentioned, or positive
Can you see how I’m confused, do you think the primary intent is for public housing, or for some political drama?
It could be some political drama, we’ll never know what goes on in the HK city council, but if you read the article you’ll see this site wasn’t selected so much as it’s lease was up and the city would be taking back control of it and they needed to do something with it. Yeah some high official could’ve been waiting for the course to come back into city hands so they could build public housing over it and snub a rival, but I think it’s far more likely that the property fell into the cities hands and they decided to turn it into affordable housing because that’s what the city needs, no sinister or alterior motive is needed.
That’s exactly what this is, a CCP flex, and it’s quite sad (though not at all unexpected) to see half the people in this thread applauding it.
Half of lemmy is pro-Chinese chills.
We don’t read the article, just the headline. And it allowed us to shit on rich people over a game that really doesn’t change much at all. That’s all we needed.
Rare China W. We better get our politicians to take notes of this one.
A more telling sign would be if they did it on the mainland. They’re always happy to go against HK because they’re more likely to rebel and demand their rights back.
Still broken clocks and all so good on them for this I guess.
That is a much better use of land!
A local municipality did the same thing but instead of building housing that the public can afford these houses are going for 400k bare bones. They effectively snubbed both the rich and the poor, and mostly just teh poor. In fact it’s a really nice part of town to live so just the poor nevermind.
I live in the outskirts of NYC and have to remind myself $400k isn’t budget housing. Every now and then I’ll look up regular size apartments in the area and they’re usually $1-2 million
lmfao good
fuck golf
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From personal experience, these men usually get more frustrated with golf than enjoy it. Either duffing drives or hitting balls into lakes.
Lol lmao even
Interesting. Insane, but interesting.
Is this serious? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such an offensive and stupid take, you must be joking or 15.
Is this serious?
It’s probably just a conflict bot, trying to get people to argue with each other.
I checked their profile and it’s a lot of normal human posts. Not even often political I think my own history has more political takes.
“It’s a bot” is currently the go-to claim whenever you want to use what was said in an attempt to confirm what you already believe.
A lack of political takes/posts is actually kind of an indicator of a conflict bot; as they tend to make a bunch of random non-argumentative posts as a history background, and then be used just for a while for conflict, then disappear.
But yeah it can also just be somebody trolling as well.
Thanks I didn’t know that!
Just stop.
Stay with me.
Well, that was a mistake.
What a crock of shite
It’s surreal that there even was a golf course on that tiny island.
The golf course isn’t on an island.
When they confiscate everything from Trump I hope they turn the golf courses into public housing
it will just go to the next rich a-hole who has the money to pay for it. We don’t get happy endings in america.
Happy endings cost extra.
