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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] 58 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

citing ecological reasons to make their case

motherfucker golf courses are already an affront to god and nature

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months 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] 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Somehow their poisoned grass fields with zero animal life are environmental

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

The surface of Venus is technically an environment smuglord

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months 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] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months 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] 16 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months 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] 16 points 11 months ago

oh no I said something: lol, lmao even

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

Bro do you even care about the super wealthy?!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months 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] 51 points 11 months ago (2 children)

FUCK. GOLF.

FUCK. GRASS. IT HAS NO ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE.

HOUSE THE PEOPLE.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Too late I have grass babies now deal with it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Can you please babysit? I hate kids

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

grass is alright but native grass and let it grow long and wavy

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months 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] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This article has me rock hard.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months 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] 29 points 11 months 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] 29 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

THE THING

soypoint-1 soypoint-2

THEY'RE DOING IT!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Xi is a shit poster on Hexbear confirmed!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

Anarchists left-unity-2 socialists

     "Fuck golf."
[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (7 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would be fucking sick and golfers would probably fly in from all over just to try it.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they must be yearning for freedom right now.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Please President Biden, my billionaires yearn for golf courses.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

This fucking rules.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

xigma-male the golfing will stop

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Opposition even comes from the inner circle of Hong Kong leader John Lee. Lawmaker Regina Ip, who is the convener of the Cabinet, wrote in a social media post in July that the plan severely impacts the development of local golf sports and creates “social divisions, pitting golf enthusiasts against the rest of society”.

You can tell that it's a former anglo colony because this sounds like what some dipshit anglo official would say

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months 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] 15 points 11 months 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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

unfathomably based

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wtf why is there even a golf course in the first place

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why is it that the Seattle 'leftists' can't do something like this?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

they don't control the state?

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