• passntrash@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    While I loathe golf courses and am always happy to take the piss out of the “elites”, this feels like something more.

    This might just be the CCP flexing political power over Hong Kong in general, but I’d be curious to see what the primary motivation behind this decision was. Obviously it wasn’t building public housing, that’s just a good cover story with a positive side effect.

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      6 months ago

      That’s exactly what this is, a CCP flex, and it’s quite sad (though not at all unexpected) to see half the people in this thread applauding it.

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        6 months ago

        We don’t read the article, just the headline. And it allowed us to shit on rich people over a game that really doesn’t change much at all. That’s all we needed.

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    6 months ago

    Hell yeah. Having a humongous area of grass that needs to be moved and watered reserved for a boring sport when there are tons of people paying ridiculously high rent to be able to cram themselves into some tiny closet. Fuck the CCP tho.

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      6 months ago

      A more telling sign would be if they did it on the mainland. They’re always happy to go against HK because they’re more likely to rebel and demand their rights back.

      Still broken clocks and all so good on them for this I guess.