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Karl Barks posted:i see golf didn't make his list of bourgeois luxuries gently caress golf. does golf have any redeeming qualities? I like mini golf tho maybe I’m a bad person
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May 8, 2019 18:47
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turn all golf courses into public housing imo. or public parks
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May 8, 2019 18:53
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the only thing minigolf has in common with golf is it uses the same/similar ball tho.
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May 8, 2019 18:55
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Lightning Knight posted:gently caress golf. does golf have any redeeming qualities? It is really fun to play even if you're bad at it but I agree with getting rid of every golf course and using the land for something good Mini golf should be fine
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May 8, 2019 18:58
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There was a housing development near my parents house with all the houses built around a golf course in the center. The course eventually closed down because no one used it. Instead of turning it into a nice park or something they let it deteriorate and get overrun with wild dogs.
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May 8, 2019 19:15
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/26/why-surrey-has-more-golf-courses-land-than-homesquote:More of Surrey is now devoted to golf courses than housing, according to provocative new research that claims to dispel many of the myths associated with Britain's housing boom.
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May 8, 2019 19:17
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Lightning Knight posted:gently caress golf. does golf have any redeeming qualities? It's a good way to spot people that need a Jacobin haircut
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May 8, 2019 19:30
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:There was a housing development near my parents house with all the houses built around a golf course in the center. The course eventually closed down because no one used it. Instead of turning it into a nice park or something they let it deteriorate and get overrun with wild dogs. good for the dogs
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May 8, 2019 19:33
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Lightning Knight posted:gently caress golf. does golf have any redeeming qualities? would radicalizing the caddies be good practice or is golf caddie just a summer job for future bankers?
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May 8, 2019 19:49
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there’s nothing you can get out of golfing that you couldn’t get from mini golf or a driving range. if you want to “walk the course” then walk in a park, but that also highlights the main function of golf courses, which is to be a private park that keeps the riffraff out.
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May 8, 2019 19:57
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i just assumed we were turning all golf courses and resorts into game reserves?
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:i just assumed we were turning all golf courses and resorts into game reserves? I don’t think you could make a blanket statement like this, it sort of depends on where they are. For example in my hometown they built a dumb country club in the middle of the side of town I lived on that could comfortably be turned into any number of things, whether that’s focused on outdoors activities or a park, or housing/commercial use. Conversely the golf course in the rich suburb of my hometown should just be a park, it’s kinda out of the way and it’s already near some public parks.
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May 8, 2019 20:46
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the golf courses will be killing fields
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May 8, 2019 21:21
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:i just assumed we were turning all golf courses and resorts into game reserves?
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Lightning Knight posted:I don’t think you could make a blanket statement like this, it sort of depends on where they are. not sure i follow. i think the bigger concern is how to keep them happy + breeding in captivity. i dont think the hunt would be particularly lively if the game didn't have a market to exploit.
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May 8, 2019 21:34
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platzapS posted:Elephant reserves. Convert to savanna, harvest the ivory for hard currency until the revolution is global. y u gotta do elephants like this
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May 8, 2019 21:43
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oh man Golf Chat just reminded me of of this "Letter from America" by Alistair Cooke --> Tiger Woods' ethnicity - 2 May 1997. This was apparently read aloud on the BBC in some kind of audio column by Cooke, who you might know as the host of Masterpiece Theatre quote:After a collage of Tiger Woods driving, chipping, putting, winning, it showed a parade of little black boys, some girls, saying, chanting in turn, "I'm Tiger Woods! I'm Tiger Woods!" You could see from the gleam in their dark eyes that they meant to learn golf and go onwards and upwards and maybe they too, the day after they turn pro, can bag a sponsor, two sponsors, with a collective promise of $60million. Those happy faces with their proud little recitations formed, for me, the saddest image, memory, of the day.
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May 8, 2019 22:05
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my dad finally replied and he was a CPBG member before the split. I'm extremely glad I haven't had to deal with the kind of boomer lead poisoning most people have had with their parents
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May 8, 2019 22:40
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it's very difficult to, on the one hand, recognize that generational warfare is bad, but also constantly run into most boomers being completely awful in america. some of them, i assume, are good people the good boomers probably died
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May 8, 2019 23:57
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Yeah a big reason olds suck so much is that all the cool ones were ground down by a life under capitalism and died, so only the bougie assholes who've known nothing but ease and can afford medical care get to live.
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May 9, 2019 00:04
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i'm pumped to join my comrades in dying under capitalism
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May 9, 2019 00:07
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:i'm pumped to join my comrades in dying under capitalism 
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i think a lot of boomers are just bitter as gently caress, especially if they weren't able to take advantage of the huge 20 year window where higher education, middle management, and big homes in the suburbs were being shoveled out to every white person in America. the tech revolution passed a lot of them by and they were obsoleted into menial labor or perilous early retirement if they weren't some kind of vice president boardroom piece of furniture with an army of assistants and dirt on everybody. my old man is at the tail end of the baby boom (1960) and smack dab in the middle of deindustrialization, and the destruction of most urban working class manufacturing job neighborhoods in major cities. he's now, at 58, permanently disabled after a stroke/heart attack from a lifetime of smoking and hard drug abuse. my father in law had to work shelf stocking jobs in Target at 61, his wife still working at 64 after beating cancer. they can't afford to retire because property taxes, bills, life, and healthcare costs would put them in the red. after the huge centuries long premium on RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM, we've expanded society to the limits of single family household w/lawns front and back model, and now in order to keep up with the comfort and commodity production demands expected, everything is getting ratcheted back and crunched in as wages/benefits stay stagnant or get slashed and silicon valley disruptors come up with incredible new ways to supply bullshit products and services to distant suburbs and rurals while picking their pockets. we've taken the greatest productive workforce in the history of humanity and turned it into the world's most powerful military, but then we didn't have the gumption to start a proper empire. the aborted core holds its breath in a pregnant pause maintaining its toy soldiers and stranglehold on international relations, bleeding federal funds at an alarming rate, while not ENTIRELY pressing the issue enough to create prosperity in the homeland. instead, it's just a bunch of CEOs, lobbyists, grifters and senators angling for board room jobs funneling the proceeds from soft finger-fucky imperialism directly into the cayman islands. so, yeah, the fed and the MIC are a bunch of conquistador blueballed white devils, the private sector is strangling a sovereign nation to death with its own stupids ugly loving flag, and HAIL SATAN because the dictatorship of capital is coming.
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What is it with trots and pedos https://twitter.com/TheRedRoar/status/1126219116585656322?s=19
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:There was a housing development near my parents house with all the houses built around a golf course in the center. The course eventually closed down because no one used it. Instead of turning it into a nice park or something they let it deteriorate and get overrun with wild dogs. That owns, I want to live next to the dog forest
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May 9, 2019 10:43
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Jose posted:What is it with trots and pedos
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May 9, 2019 13:25
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can anyone reccomend me a book that deals with (basic) finance from a marxist perspective? was thinking of dipping back into capital (esp vol 3) and then moving on to hilferding, but i figured there's gotta be something written more recently that'd be easier
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richard wolff is the first one that comes to mind that writes solely on the economics of marxism. how basic are you looking for? Piketty is good too, he describes the problems well, but his solution is bad. it's also pretty technical
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Finicums Wake posted:can anyone reccomend me a book that deals with (basic) finance from a marxist perspective? wall street by doug henwood is pretty good
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May 11, 2019 02:20
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austin red guards unironically own
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Finicums Wake posted:can anyone reccomend me a book that deals with (basic) finance from a marxist perspective? Ficticious Capital by Cedric Durand ain't bad for this, and can be read in a couple hours tops.
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i say swears online posted:austin red guards unironically own while you were partying, I was studying Mao's critiques
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May 11, 2019 05:21
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i say swears online posted:austin red guards unironically own  The last sight of many a revisionist
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:
laffo
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lol and also cant wait, just started revolutions after listening to rome and theyre all great. kinda falls into the trap of just recounting the stuff great men do towards the end of every revolution and was especially bad in the latter half of rome, but the early episodes always do a good job of discussing social and class forces and antagonisms that lead to events
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