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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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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

citing ecological reasons to make their case

motherfucker golf courses are already an affront to god and nature

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

“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.

michael-laugh Nice fucking word choice, climate, yeah, that's the word I wanna use.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Somehow their poisoned grass fields with zero animal life are environmental

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

The surface of Venus is technically an environment smuglord

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I'd also be okay with someone calling their bluff and turning the thing into a nature reserve or park.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

raising questions over whether the interests of the wealthy clans are even a major concern to the top leadership.

ughhhh this fucking wording

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do these communists even care about the ultra-wealthy? Is a great line and we should say it more

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

But also good and I'm glad he's mad

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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. ...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

oh no I said something: lol, lmao even

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Bro do you even care about the super wealthy?!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

whether the interests of the wealthy clans are even a major concern

WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE PLANET BURNING MONSTERS porky-scared

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FUCK. GOLF.

FUCK. GRASS. IT HAS NO ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE.

HOUSE THE PEOPLE.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No Dirt Owl, you're supposed to just touch the grass, not fuck it!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too late I have grass babies now deal with it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Can you please babysit? I hate kids

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

balance the need for housing with golfing

ah yes those famously equal needs

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This article has me rock hard.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

I've conferred with my colleagues at the Vocel Halls of Justice and we are prepared to give special dispensation. This time.

volcel-judge

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

sicko-yes There is hope yet

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

he's prolly lying about being a soccer fan, i bet he just hates golf

china men's soccer still garbage bawllin-sad

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

This is what I mean when I say "free Hong Kong"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Anarchists left-unity-2 socialists

     "Fuck golf."
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

China attaining levels of winning that no mere liberal could have imagined

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Today my inner china struggle session has decided china good

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, they must be yearning for freedom right now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Please President Biden, my billionaires yearn for golf courses.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

citing ecological

You don't understand, this unnatural gras monoculture is very important for the environment!!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

This fucking rules.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

xigma-male the golfing will stop

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder when the libs from other instances will show up to tell us that golf courses are good acktually

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

First they came for the golf courses, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a golf course.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

xi-gun The golf course provides too little cover for a properly sporting billionaire hunt roast-adolf

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