• Manucode
    81•1 year ago

    Damn communists stop me from watering my golf course near Phoenix

    • Kalkaline
      15•1 year ago

      Only because they don’t have enough wildflowers and trees which would make for a much more challenging course.

      • @[email protected]
        7•1 year ago

        Challenge? Are you aware of what kind of sport golf is? The ball’s not even moving when you have to hit it ffs. (I do enjoy the act of golfing, but holy cow is it a pathetic “sport”)

        • @[email protected]
          5•1 year ago

          It’s the only “sport” I know of where “top-tier athletes” can get viciously drunk while actively playing in tournaments and still do alright.

          Thanks, John Daly, for proving what a farce golf truly is.

          • Kalkaline
            4•1 year ago

            a mustachioed cyclist sitting in the corner hides away his Pabst Blue Ribbon

        • @[email protected]
          3•1 year ago

          If they wanted to make it a sport, it would be full contact, everybody would go at the same time, and your time would be the scoring metric. Full football (American) gear, played in the summer. Now that I’d pay to watch.

  • @[email protected]
    40•1 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    9•1 year ago

    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?”

    • Dippy
      4•1 year ago

      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.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
      3•1 year ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
      35•1 year ago

      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)

    • nifty
      9•1 year ago

      False! Mini golf is the game of the savant and the cultural elite 🧐

      Edit doubly so if it’s at night and there are glowing things involved

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      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.