conservatives love to threaten us with a good time.
Nice riddance
Excellent disposal.
Damn communists stop me from watering my golf course near Phoenix
Just get a better job, if you can’t afford water!
I see this as an absolute win
i wouldn’t mind that :3
I know we can joke about how this is a good thing. But isn’t it much more likely that the State would own the courses?
Or just that there would be less of them and anyone could do it instead of the “elite?”
It’s more that golf courses are generally wastes of land, and unless the proletariat deemed them necessary, golf courses would be either given back to the environment or repurposed for public housing or other such socially beneficial projects.
I don’t follow your thoughts here.
But. The state would likely regulate them away except maybe in climates that aren’t very burdened by golf courses, if that’s even a thing. Communist governments don’t inherently take full control of all businesses. They simply eliminate private property, which is not to be confused with personal property.
A communist golf course might look like this. You roll right up to the course. You either pull out your own clubs or borrow some from the facility. Someone maybe informs you which courses are more or less busy, helps you understand how to play and what etiquette is expected for the pleasure and safety of yourself, other active and future golfers. And then someone maintains the courses when… whenever they’re maintained now probably.
Golf = The game of the bourgeoisie. Mini Golf = The game of the proletariat.
Mini-golf is also… just so much more entertaining and fun.
Well yeah because you don’t have to wear the stupid pants and shoes, you can but you don’t have to
Misses the golf cart though
Usually has ice cream instead, which is objectively better.
False! Mini golf is the game of the savant and the cultural elite 🧐
Edit doubly so if it’s a night and there are glowing things are involved
Golf isn’t the problem, it’s golf courses
If you took any random forest or mountain and put a cup at one end then just said go things would be fine
(I know foot traffic is bad, it’s better than bulldozing the whole thing)
You’ve basically just described golf’s superior cousin: disc golf
I was being traditionalist to golf
I like the driving range and I like mini golf but it’s the middle game I can’t be bothered with playing.
So I nail 120 balls at the driving range then play a round of mini golf.
Disc golf - the game of the revolutionary
Funny, because where I live, municipal tax dollars have been repeatedly used to save a golf course that doesn’t bring in enough revenue to sustain its own existence.
I unironically want to abolish golf. At least in the form it currently exists
I have never played golf. But I enjoy VR mini golf way more than I would like to admit. It’s so fun and creative.
Mini golf is the shit, you ought to get out to a real one with a friend or two some time. Guaranteed you’ll enjoy yourself
My friends said mini golf is for children and laugh when I asked to try it out. I’m 30yo tho, so yeah they might be right about that.
You need a better friend! I’m 28 and still go mini golfing on every now and then. Let your inner child free, life’s too short to worry about the acceptable age range of mini golf
naahh, they’re wrong. Tipsy mini golf is the shit, especially if there’s a theme (darkroom/pirates/whatever)
For real, get high and go to a glow in the dark mini golf course. There’s one in every failing mall in the USA.
the argument is: a single game requires a minimum of 200 acres of sculpted fancy gardens, non-native plants, little help to polinators, a fuck ton of water, fertilizer and pesticides, and is protected from the general public not only with a fee but also a vetting process, often built at huge expense in an area that would be better served with affordable housing, transport and public amenities.
And it’s entire purpose is to extract money from already rich people and enforce a class culture of haves and have-nots while essentially turning the land into a green desert.
There are a few pitch and putts in public parks around Vancouver. I can get behind those because they are only 11 dollars to play and 5 bucks to rent 3 clubs. It isn’t prohibitively expensive and expands the green space for wild animals that use the greens during night time like bats.
But yes to taking down large exclusive courses that should have parklands with high density public housing built in it.
As if we wouldn’t still have Wii sports golf
It would be OUR sports golf, at that point.
(Sorry, had to).
Were communism to take hold, golf’s not going anywhere. Private country clubs on the other hand…
Eh, I can see the Proletariat deciding to direct the vast amounts of land destroyed for golf being used for public housing or returned to nature, rather than being a wasteful hobby for the elite
A small price to pay for the eradication of golf
hold on, im a communist and i love golf
Inshallah.
They allowed capitalists to win and they bought golf.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/jun/13/saudi-arabia-golf-pga-tour-public-investment-fund
One of my favorite indie games was bought out by Gearbox, the corporation that’s behind the Borderlands movie
I think this will negatively affect the game I like, but I’m happy the developers got serious money. I’ll find a new indie game, and hope that the next generation of indie devs gets serious bank by selling their game next.
Gearbox is also the developer of the borderlands games. Doesn’t seem impossible they’ll just let the studio do its thing, and inany case they’re far from unrelated to game dev.
Though I’d also be concerned any time something I like is bought by another company.
Yeah, I just thought it’d be funny to imply that’s what they’re known for, like “Barack Obama, Husband of Michelle Obama”
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