• arcine@jlai.lu
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    7 hours ago

    I’m a communist and I love golf ! I just want it (and everything else) to be managed collectively.

    Is that really too much to ask ?

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      6 hours ago

      Sames, imagine if they left just one course per municipality (minus where they don’t make sense, like the desert where there’s just way too many anyways). Drive all the carts into a recycling center and force everyone to walk? Great way to keep, especially older people, moving.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      It’s such a wasteful use of land that is used pretty much exclusively by the bourgeoisie, so I imagine they don’t really need to.

  • RepublicansAreEvil@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Golf is actually so off-putting sometimes because have you seen the average enjoyer? It’s like every frat guy, crypto bro and racist pool guys favorite hobby

    I’m also convinced 90% of the players just want to walk around and drink outside.

  • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Wow, I thought I was sold with communism as is, but now you add the eradication of golf??

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    24 hours ago

    Good. Golf is fucking stupid and requires huge amounts of space that could be used for parks instead

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      23 hours ago

      That’s capitalist golf.

      Good, ethical golf of the proletariat happens anywhere you can place a can and the worse the terrain, the better the game.

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      22 hours ago

      Virtual golf is a thing now. It’s like a giant video game.

      Basically, you hit a ball into a projection screen. It has fancy laser trackers that works out direction, distance and spin. You can even select to play famous courses anywhere in the world, where they’d never let you in, and you couldn’t afford anyways.

      Doesn’t take much room at all. Indoors with all the creature comforts

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    Lived a few years in Aberdeen, the birthplace of golf.

    over there it makes sense. That grass grows naturally, everyone has a golf court at a walking distance, fun sociable walk (about 9 to 18km of walking), carts are practically banned there. it isn’t a rich hobby.

    On a nice day you can see everyone golfing, even if it is a couple kids with a couple of clubs (no need for a whole set which you still have to carry).

    It’s a genuine people’s sport.

    Everywhere else? where you need lots of water and land to maintain, and it’s only for rich cunts with golf carts? fuck that.

    • borkborkbork@piefed.social
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      21 hours ago

      Honestly I look at golf as a different sport entirely here in the US. It’s all about exclusive clubs, racist segregation, flagrant wasting of resources to benefit a tiny minority, and often using public funds to subsidize a shitty sport so rich people can pay less for their racist bullshit.

      I do wonder how the average scotsman feels because your perspective from living there a few years doesn’t really tell us the entire story, just your POV.

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        20 hours ago

        didn’t say Scotland, said Aberdeen, look at the map, there’s like 6 full golf courses within the city, no matter where you live in the city, there’s always a course within walking distance. not sure about the rest of Scotland.

    • fun_times@lemmy.world
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      That reminds me of when I was a kid and I and my family would play the home-made hybrid game “croquet golf” on our (very uneven) lawn. It was really fun. Essentially, it was golf rules with croquet equipment. My dad dug nine holes in our lawn for that game.

    • infiniteCAD@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      1 day ago

      that makes a lot of sense. colonization and rich flaunting has the effect of transposing things to where they make no sense and requires destruction to make work at all. example that comes to my mind is how cheap concrete and steel construction being imposed on third world countries by its neocolonizers, places where its expensive to create and makes construction worse bc its not suitable for every environment. and the rich of third world countries picking glass metal generic skyscrapers to flaunt their wealth, constructing them in places where its horrible

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      24 hours ago

      I bet the lower parts of Scotland (and probably most of the higher areas, too) was forest before humans started cultivating it.

      • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        probably, don’t want to get into exactly what’s natural or not. but it has plenty of grass dunes seas, put in a few sheep and you have perfect grass for golf.

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    22 hours ago

    You know what I was just going to accept capitalism as is for the rest of my life but now I’m a radical leftist. Whoever made this meme took it just a step too far.

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    1 day ago

    Fun fact: Che played golf. Story goes that he taught Casto how to play because he was set to meet with Eisenhower and golf is where he did his diplomacy. Castro was looking for US support for the revolution. Nixon interceded and wound up putting Castro in the other group… which included the Russian Ambassador.