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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nationalize golf courses, make them parklands.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Then where will we dump all the herbicides?

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 months ago

Another pro communism meme

[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've got just the place for low-cost housing. I have solved this problem. I know where we can build housing for the homeless: golf courses! It's perfect! Just what we need. Plenty of good land, in nice neighborhoods, land that is currently being wasted on a meaningless, mindless activity engaged in primarily by white, well-to-do male businessmen who use the game to get together to make deals to carve this country up a little finer amongst themselves. I am getting tired, really getting tired, of these golfing cocksuckers in their green pants, and their yellow pants, and their orange pants, and their precious little hats and their cute little golf carts! It is time to reclaim the golf courses from the wealthy and turn them over to the homeless! Golfing is a arrogant, elitist game which takes up entirely too much room in this country. Too much room' in this country! It is an arrogant game on its very design alone, just the design of the game speaks of arrogance. Think of how big a golf course is - the ball is that fucking big! What do these pin-headed pricks need with all that land?! There are over seventeen thousand golf courses in America, they average over one hundred and fifty acres a piece - that's three million plus acres, four thousand, eight hundred and twenty square miles - you could build two Rhode Islands and a Delaware for the homeless on the land currently being wasted on this meaningless, mindless, arrogant, elitist, racist, there's another thing; the only blacks you'll find at country clubs are carrying trays. And a boring game. A boring game for boring people. You ever watch golf on television? It's like watching flies fuck! And a mindless game, mindless. Think of the intellect it must take, to draw pleasure from this activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick and then, walking after it! And then, hitting it again! I say pick it up asshole, you're lucky you found the fucking thing! Put it in your pocket and go home, you're a winner! You've found it! No chance of that happening. Dork-o in the plaid knickers is going to hit it again and walk some more. Let these rich cocksuckers play miniature golf! Let them fuck with a windmill for an hour and a half or so! See if there's any real skill among these people. Now I know there are some people who play golf who don't consider themselves rich. FUCK 'EM! And shame on them for engaging in an arrogant, elitist passtime.

-George Carlin

George Carlin on Golf-Youtube

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe golf is where Trump picked up his hatred of windmills.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago

Good? It's a huge waste of land and resources.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Back in the day they were saying "don't let the terrorists win"

Now it's communists?

Are there any real communists left in the world?

The only existing communist states left in the world are in China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and North Korea (DPRK).

...and even these states do not claim to have achieved communism in their countries but are supposedly building and working toward its establishment.

China is the most capitalist communist country I've ever seen

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

China is just capitalism with extra spicy corruption.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

China is a fascist economy without the extreme jingoism

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Extreme jingoism is more like threatening to invade your closest ally of 150 years because of woke, that's just sparkling imperialism

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The fear of communists came way before the fear of terrorists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Unironically yes. Fuck golf

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Can we make golf less bad? Like, public courses, make it so that the grass isn't some perfect standard import grass. Make it local even if it's "less than ideal" for the game. Desert courses with no grass. I dunno

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What about disc golf, but with balls? Ball golf?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

"good" courses exist. They are just quite rare

In my area there are at least 2 courses that have very reasonable member fees (not more than other sports clubs) where things like golf clubs and balls renting is included if you need them. Plus all kinds of free weekends

They are also not targeted to rich snobs. So you can actually meet people there without being looked down upon

As for the course itself: they are located in area that are not really suitable for things like apartment development etc. And they take care of the more wild parts of nature (making sure that some area are completely off limits during nesting season due example)

Does it have an impact compared to it not being there? Sure. But they do a lot for the surrounding, and it gets people into nature that otherwise probably wouldn't

All the courses in the middle of cities or climates that don't naturally support a course can go fuck themselves, though

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Dammit, don't make me support communism now.

Is there another way to get rid of golf?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They would just build climate-controlled domes.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Fuck, don't threaten me with a good time.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh no! What will men in loveless marriages do?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good. Fuck golf.

(Mini golf excluded)

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

How is your feeling towards disc golf? It still required a large amount of area, but the grass doesn't have to be perfectly cut, and the sport allows a lot more trees and plants - in fact it requires a lot more vegetation to make an interesting course.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've seen a disc golf course be integrated into a local park, without any damage to nature. If only more sports could be this eco-friendly.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

So we could win twice?

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

Fuck golf. George Carlin was right. And that's just the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4w7H48tBS8

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

My local golf course regularly floods and is unusable by anything other than ducks for months at a time.

So capitalism isn't exactly doing the game any favours either.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

For this reason alone...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I'd be okay with that. Golf courses offend me. So much land wasted that could be put to better uses...like landfills, or cemeteries for the indigent, or nuclear waste storage. (Or housing, or growing food.)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

They recently closed a course near me and now they've stripped out all the trees and are building a 300 acre development of McMansions. The course was also a home to deer and wild turkey, several stands of nice old hardwoods, some ponds with ducks and geese. Be careful what you wish for.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I mean if communism is what it'll take to get rid of golf I figure the ends justify the means.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Based honestly

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

If we allow the republicans to win, climate change will be so out of control the game of golf will be played in sand dunes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Watch Republicans wage water wars in order to keep watering their lawns.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It's hammer time then.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I was hoping American football but I'll take this. Seems like a fair trade.

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