Political Memes

Yeah, I experience a bit of cognitive dissonance whenever I remember conservatism and conservation have very little overlap.

If you’re falling to the myth of being a strong independent … person …. Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, solar and wind are local energy sources without foreign dependencies, and scale both up and down. This should be right up their ally.

I don’t want to be on the Texas electrical grid because of all their blackouts: Deisel generators are noisy and I have to depend on someone to fill the tanks, but I can put solar on my roof and batteries on the side of the garage and be independent. Zero fuel costs. zero have to depend on anyone. —— why isn’t this their line?

I used to challenge conservatives on their nationalism and patriotism whenever it came to infrastructure and renewable energy. The idea was they should get behind efforts to beat, say, China at building rail and ports. We should be the standard bearer for solar, wind, and nuclear!

Turns out they aren't patriots and they're bad at nationalism. They're just lazy and racist.

To be fair, wind is also a form of solar power. (Wind being caused by the difference in heat between the different hemispheres/poles & the rotation of the earth)

So wind & solar power are indirect & direct long-range nuclear energy sources, respectively.

wind and solar are not popular for conservatives because they were left talking points first. which obviously means it's wrong, libtards owned yet again

Maybe if we change the angle like "WE'RE TAKING THE SUN'S ENERGY AND THERE'S NOTHING IT CAN DO ABOUT IT" if we''re being mean to the sun maybe they'll like it better.

Gotta love the hoax that Windmills and Solar "Aren't feasible"

Raw air and bleach ray collector.

Energy independence should just be renamed foreign-free energy

"Actually Natural Gas" "Orbital Fusion"

I'm honestly wondering this. Renewables reduce dependency on foreign countries, so using them can be interpreted as a patriotic act. They make sense, geostrategically, not just for saving earth but also for reducing the leverage other countries have over yours. This could be something that both, green activists and nationalists, can jointly agree on. I don't get it.

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The "right" aren't right though, they're wrong. They should be called "far-wrong" instead of "far-right", imo, as their stances on many things show.

They don't like nuclear either. Too green. You only need a little drilling and everyone can do it.

They only like things they can regularly drill or mine for so it's tied to owning special land.

Anyone can set up nuclear, solar, and wind power. They're not getting rich off those.

What if the left "cancels" solar because its power source causes cancer? Also, something something starts fires in blue states.

Tell them that they need to stop using wind and solar or else in 100 yesrs we'll run out of wind and sunshine. We're talking about "adults" who have the toddler mentality of "DON'T TELL ME NO 😡".

Supporters likes kickback from oil subsidies, fossil fuel deregulation, and supression of competitive technology. That's the angle.

...Maybe solar/wind companies should name themselves things like "Exon"

Does the right like nuclear? I thought they didn't. It's pretty clean efficient energy, though it has been overtaken in recent years by wind and solar for cost.

Get the left to protest and Pickett against solar and wind. Say it’s fascist nonsense. The right will jump on it

They like geothermal though, for the simple reason that it's actually cheaper in the long run. Also solar is nice because you can live off the grid. But otherwise it's not very popular among conservatives because the cost effectiveness in the long term isn't quite there. They aren't motivated by the idea of green energy, it's a simple cost calculation.