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    1 year 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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      61 year 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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        11 year 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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      -91 year ago

      the CCP can’t possibly do something in the interests of the people, their must be something dastardly behind this.

      Your just as bad as the tankies who think u.s. aid is just a CIA front, or the Republicans who think welfare is just Democrats keeping black people poor and dependent.

      The u.s government and CCP aren’t just full of villains trying to oppress people, both have the capacity for empathy and compassion and do exercise it often.

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        That’s not what I said, but I love how you misquoted me in the framework of your own personal warped version of reality.

        Read the subtext of the article. This location was obviously selected for a politically motivated reason, and I’d be interested to know what that was i.e. was it a general show of power (boring), or was it some hyper specific personal conflict with a prominent member of the club and a CCP party member (interesting).

        That doesn’t mean the intent behind the CCP policy isn’t good, well intentioned, or positive. But that’s not surprising to me, so it’s not very interesting. What drove the politics behind the decision to raze a Golf Course to spite HK elite, is very interesting, at least to me.