chapotraphouse @hexbear.net Tankiedesantski [he/him] @hexbear.net 1 yr. ago

Hong Kong is going to build 12,000 apartments on a golf course. Rich people mad.

Members pay an entrance fee of about HK$400,000 (S$68,000) and some have been vocal in their opposition to the redevelopment plan, citing ecological, commercial and social reasons to make their case.

Nobody working class is missing out on their golf because of this.

Beijing directly exhorted local officials to fix the problems in the aftermath of the mass protests that rocked the city in 2019, demanding that Hong Kong get rid of so-called cage homes or subdivided apartments by 2049.

Based Beijing.

The decision to build on the golf course also reflects how old business elites in Hong Kong are losing political sway as more staunchly pro-Beijing loyalists gain ground.

sicko-charging

When Beijing’s top official for the city visited it in April, he did not meet the real estate developers association, which represents some of the richest families, raising questions over whether the interests of the wealthy clans are even a major concern to the top leadership.

party-sicko

Mr Zeman argued that shrinking the golf course hits at the heart of the way business is done in the city. “A lot of deals are done on the golf course all over the world for business people,” he said.

Fuck off back to your offices and make your deals there you fucking ghouls.

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citing ecological reasons to make their case

motherfucker golf courses are already an affront to god and nature
- “It is wrong in today’s climate” to take back part of the golf course, he added, at a time when Hong Kong desperately wants to attract businesses and people from overseas.
  
  Nice fucking word choice, climate, yeah, that's the word I wanna use.
- Somehow their poisoned grass fields with zero animal life are environmental
  
  The surface of Venus is technically an environment
- I'd also be okay with someone calling their bluff and turning the thing into a nature reserve or park.
raising questions over whether the interests of the wealthy clans are even a major concern to the top leadership.

ughhhh this fucking wording
- Do these communists even care about the ultra-wealthy? Is a great line and we should say it more
  
  I knew a guy who was complaining that the Chinese state seized his capital investments. He did not like it when I tried to explain that expecting the communist party to look after your capital and then getting mad when they take it is not reasonable
  
  First they came after the developers, and I said nothing, for I wasn't a developer. Then they came for the landlords, and I said nothing, for I wasn't a landlord. ...
- Bro do you even care about the super wealthy?!
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FUCK. GOLF.

FUCK. GRASS. IT HAS NO ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE.

HOUSE THE PEOPLE.
- No Dirt Owl, you're supposed to just touch the grass, not fuck it!
  
  Too late I have grass babies now deal with it
- grass is alright but native grass and let it grow long and wavy
This article had us fucking rolling, it reads like a joke news story in a video game. These people are malding so much over their precious golf that they're stumbling over each other to embarrass themselves about it.
The idea of redeveloping golf courses into housing is much more mature in Singapore, where the government laid out a plan in 2014 for how it will balance the need for housing with golfing.

The wealthy clans can't live without their golf! This is cultural genocide!
- balance the need for housing with golfing
  
  ah yes those famously equal needs
This article has me rock hard.
- I've conferred with my colleagues at the Vocel Halls of Justice and we are prepared to give special dispensation. This time.
This is what I mean when I say "free Hong Kong"
If there is one flaw in this beautiful story, it's that they aren't reclaiming enough to prevent people from playing golf there entirely
- This made me look up whether Xi golfs, and I found this gem from CNN in 2017:
  
  Xi, an avid soccer fan, isn’t known to be a golfer – and he’s been waging a war on the sport in his country.
  
  Since he came to power nearly five years ago, Xi’s government has shut down scores of golf courses across China and effectively banned the 88 million members of the ruling Communist Party from playing.
  
  There is hope yet
  
  he's prolly lying about being a soccer fan, i bet he just hates golf
  
  china men's soccer still garbage
  
  and effectively banned the 88 million members of the ruling Communist Party from playing.
  
  Banned them? How?
Mr Zeman argued that shrinking the golf course hits at the heart of the way business is done in the city. “A lot of deals are done on the golf course all over the world for business people,” he said

I love the admission that these freaks just go play golf all day instead of doing actual work.
Anarchists socialists

"Fuck golf."
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- Xi is a shit poster on Hexbear confirmed!
China attaining levels of winning that no mere liberal could have imagined
Today my inner china struggle session has decided china good
Compromise idea: Build 18 buildings roughly in the footprint of the greens of each hole, and put the golf course on top. Golfers can either take 2 elevators between holes, or walk a tightrope.
- That would be fucking sick and golfers would probably fly in from all over just to try it.
  
  hell this would probably get me to play golf and I hate golf
- Remove the elevator option and make sure it's in a windy location and I'm sold.
  
  See what you did? Now they're putting a zipline on the rooftop island hopping golf course.
- g*lfers are the absolute last group of people we should be compromising with
  
  Death to America
  
  Golfers cannot retain their character wothout golf carts. If they lug their gear and hike from hole to hole, especially up and down stairs, it loses some of its bourgeois character.
- I have a better compromise plan
  
  Only golf that is permitted after the revolution will be a driving range with current country club members "playing" as targets
  
  They still get to play the "sport" they love, vocation becomes vacation and so on
Here's the course, by the way. It's about a mile long. It has three 18-hole courses.

It should be noted that this isn't in the city of Hong Kong, it's in the relatively less developed north end of the Special Administrative Region, just south of Shenzhen. About a fifth of the course is going to be repossessed, I don't know whether that's of the whole thing or just one of the courses.
Yeah, they must be yearning for freedom right now.
- Please President Biden, my billionaires yearn for golf courses.
Fucking excuse me? Is that the "entrance fee" or a lifetime membership? They pay how much to whack a ball around with a stick?

Think of how many people they could help with that money, how many poor and suffering people in the wardrobe sized apartments next to the golf course struggling to survive.

The worst part about this is that these fuckers won't be on the golf course when it gets bulldozed.
- It has to be a membership fee or something that amount of money is just unbelievable as an entrance fee.
  
  That entrance fee is more than my bloody house.
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citing ecological

You don't understand, this unnatural gras monoculture is very important for the environment!!
the golfing will stop
This fucking rules.
I wonder when the libs from other instances will show up to tell us that golf courses are good acktually
- wow you authoritarian tankies don't want to let people do what they want with their own land, and you in your little echo chambers don't even want to engage the golfers in good faith discussion
I see you tankies are cheering on another genocide against a minority group in China. This is erasure of millionaire and billionaire culture, and you Russian CCP whataboutism bots are cheering for it!

siiiiiigh... tommy need drinky
- Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
Golf and it's consequences have been disastrous for the human race.

...but jokes aside fuck golf!!!! I will never understand the appeal of that "sport". My grandparents used to watch it on TV religiously and It blows my mind.
The golf course provides too little cover for a properly sporting billionaire hunt
First they came for the golf courses, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a golf course.
Mr Li Ning, the son-in-law of Hong Kong’s fourth-richest person Lee Shau Kee, attended one such event in June to oppose the plan on the grounds that it would harm the development of golf in Hong Kong, according to local media.

bourgeois spawn cares about the real oppressed minority (golf players).
The prophecy was foretold
unfathomably based

Death to America
Wtf why is there even a golf course in the first place
- Likely a holdover from colonial times where British overlords wanted to golf and didn't much care whether Chinese people had a place to live.
  
  Fuck the overlords, but the course was built in 1911, and Hong Kong only had a population of some 300k-400k, compared to the almost eight million it's at now. Space to live probably wasn't a major concern for the city.
Wait what entrance fee of $68,000! That can't possibly be an entrance fee but it has to be a yearly subscription or something right?
- Probably the admission fee to the country club attached to the greens. There'll be a much more "reasonable" annual fee (maybe $10k) and maybe greens fees per game.
  
  Private clubs and country clubs do this to keep poor people out.
Gods be praised
:troll:
absolutely idiotic to waste any space in the most dense commercial real estate on earth on fucking golf. Go fly to the mainland if you want to play golf dickheads, they at least have land to spare
Why is it that the Seattle 'leftists' can't do something like this?
- they don't control the state?
Lmao the business ghouls have zero case and the angry British vacationers can kick rocks
Someone in Hong Kong watched the George Carlin's bit on golf

Fuck golf
no games until you finish your poverty alleviation
Beijing directly exhorted local officials to fix the problems in the aftermath of the mass protests that rocked the city in 2019, demanding that Hong Kong get rid of so-called cage homes or subdivided apartments by 2049.

You will take safe transportation. You will walk in the park. You WILL NOT live in the pod. And you WILL be happy.
- Chuds are unironically whinging about 15 minute cities so... yeah, this exactly.
Hong Kong's real estate situation is unique, to be sure, but I really hope I start seeing more of this kind of thing elsewhere.

It's not that I actually want to see more buildings everywhere. But there are tons of areas with a constant housing crisis. The rich have made sure that policies are in place where they can continue to sit on properties and keep rents high indefinitely while the majority suffer. Maybe new development needing to encroach on their precious rich people spaces could make a difference.

....lol probably not.
Meanwhile Denmark is building a new island for the rich and the speculants. It's gonna fuck everything up and there's no reason to do it. They need to build a new road to support all the trucks delivering polluted dirth thats to be dumped into the ocean. This isdespite everybody being against it AND it being illegal. We just got cod back into the baltic I wanna move to Beijing.

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