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jeez you don't have to sell it to me harder.
If someone wanted to turn all golf courses into community farms they would have my vote.
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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.
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
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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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.
The only person I know that play golf do it because he's in real state and doing golf is "good to meet clients and close businesses". He didn't even enjoy it, it's work meetings for him.
Whats wrong about walking around and drinking outside?
That's because everyone can do it. But rich people want to do stuff only they can do so that they can distance themselves from us peasants.
That's why I play and it's awesome
Nice pun. You got it down to a tee
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Good. Golf is fucking stupid and requires huge amounts of space that could be used for parks instead
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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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
God please. Its such a waste of land and built for rich people.
FUCK YEAH
Wow, I thought I was sold with communism as is, but now you add the eradication of golf??
Golf courses can fight AI data centers for water
and the loser is 99% of humans 🥳
Oddly enough, it's the rising global temperature that is, long term, the greatest threat to golf.
Personally, I think we should adapt the game to play on a variety of terrains instead of just grass. Use native ground cover, that sort of thing. It would both keep things interesting and help the ecosystem.
Good
On day one of my presidency I will abolish all forms of golf except mini. Don't vote for me but pls abolish golf
Hey, you leave disc golf alone.
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Disc golf is superior
- low barrier to entry
- frequently free to play
- great use of public parks/land
- low upkeep
- way more interesting to watch
- environmentally friendly
- many discs made of recycled plastics
- not played by mostly stuck up assholes
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LOL and? even ignoring the racism, elitism, complete waste of land and water, it's also the most fucking boring "game" in history
not that i dont agree, but boring games are allowed to exist. the issue is the racism, elitism, colonization of land, waste and abuse of water and resources
100%. Honestly, some of my favorite games are boring ass games.
If golf went inclusive and solar punk tomorrow, I still wouldn't play cuz I'm really bad at it. But I also would have no more complaints.
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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 ?
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.
Golf in the desert makes sense, but then it ought to be based on the local plant life, not Scotland.
I've alienated many relatives by responding to things lie this with "LMAO that's exactly how a dumb shit republican thinks! Damn, I didn't know you could be this funny!" or something along those lines.
Oddly, they never seem to respond unless it's like 3 months later at a family gathering when they have had time to think of a reply...
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.
Honestly, I'd like to think there's a middle ground where we place golf courses in more ethically sound locations. Right now, a lot of courses are just gigantic resource sinks sitting on real-estate that could be put to better use.
Better to place then on land reclaimed from strip mining, cemeteries, or other low-productivity locations.
There's at least one course in my area that uses the income to help the surrounding nature. Plus they have strict rules regarding what areas you're allowed to go during bird breeding seasons
Arguably the worst part would be the large area of grass. But even that is mostly offset by them maintaining the somewhat "wild" spots between the courses and the area being grassy to begin with
They are also quite affordable, so it's not a snobby rich club. So it's basically a nice way for people to enjoy nature and walk around more
It's possible. Sadly the minority
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Communist golf is where everyone shares the same ball and has to dodge cowpats in the communal pasture as they play.
Anarchocommunist golf is where you spend the day trying to track down the golf clubs someone took from the communal tool shed without telling anyone.
And then of course the weirdest variant of all is capitalist golf, where it can only be played on scrupulously maintained private property and you have to pay like $1800 per year for access.
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Every golfer should be forced to use the same equipment. P2W bullshit ass game.
Communism is when everybody shares 1 club (its a 4-iron)
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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.
I want this on a t-shirt.
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