By that token, America should have bullet trains everywhere
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It’s our second amendment right! It’s in the Constitution! I demand bullet trains
Perfect
Or....stop defining everything as left/right and make things for people. Stop the divide, it's what 'they' want.
Yes. I was amazed that anyone was able to make a vaccine political.
And some of the other kookiness from Qanon and similar really makes me wonder about the mental health of the general public.
It’s when I started looking for answers on mass psychosis. I’m still unclear on the how.
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That is just not how it works. I wish it was, but someone will always make literally whatever political
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Well the unfortunate part of that is it isn't working and a solid 30% of the population will just call you 'woke' and ignore you for saying it.
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And we can call wind farms, "Jesus Farms!"
And vaccines can be "immunity guns". Want to keep your kids safe? Give their immune system guns!
Keep on going. You’re good at this.
Next, try to come up with suitable branding for teaching stem literacy and critical thinking.
You mean "Gun Manufacturing" (Mechanical Engineering), "Bunker Building" (Civil Engineering), "Things Hitting Things" (Physics), "Explosives, Toxins, and Poisons" (Industrial Chemistry), "DIY Alternative Medicine" (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), "Owning the Libs" (Law), "Ripping off the IRS" (Taxation and Accounting), "How to be Offensive" (Language theory, reading/writing comprehension), "How to win at Gambling" (Mathematics, Statistics) "Why Libs Think Like Pussies" (Philosophy), "War" (Geography, Geo-politics, International Studies).
Yeah baby! Sign me up. Sounds awesome.
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Democrats suck at branding.
Private companies do not, though: https://www.sempersolaris.com/
Veteran owned, uses made in America parts, offers military discounts and they have a program where they do free installs for struggling vets.
Their tagine is "declare your independence from the power company"
I interviewed for a job with them once and they actually sounded very competent too
Maybe they're good at branding, but they suck at marketing.
If your product exists, fills a niche, solves a problem, and is the right price, but no one is buying it, then you suck at marketing.
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Patriot Power is real, and it really sucks. It's the solar power offerings through 4Patriots, weak-ass off-brand Chinese batteries & weak, overpriced solar panels. The only good things 4Patriots offers is survival food & sun kettles.
There are plenty of people on the right who would love energy independence, but problems include cost, infrastructure, and implementation. I'm team solar panel/nuclear power, but every few years...the solar panel tech gets way better than it EVER was. So when is the right time to plunk down tens of thousands of dollars?? It's just now starting to get really good.
Wind turbines are also getting much better. And it's about damn time.
The biggest financial problem is energy storage solutions, spend $5-10K per battery, and have it lose 40% of its effectiveness after 5 years?? Yeah, no thanks, I'm not an idiot.
But we're coming up with (ACTUAL, WORKING, COST-EFFECTIVE) solutions for that problem, too. Sand, gravity, and waterfall batteries.
All this to say, the technology is just now starting to get serious traction & legs under it. ¯\(°_o)/¯ It's not ready...until it's ready. The 'greenest' things we can do, right now, involve reducing our usage & upping our efficiencies (via new windows/doors, insulation). That's the smart money.
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Immigrants don't want you to have solar power. Especially brown people. I bet you can't even fit a solar panel on your emotional support vehicle.
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They already kinda do that, at least in my area. There's a company that advertises on AM radio called Semper Solaris and they go hard on the support the troops/vets angle with their sales pitch. It's pretty cringe, but it must work because they keep their advertisements running pretty much every commercial break. Not that you need to try very hard to convince a Californian to get solar panels installed on their roof. "Make the sun pay your entire electric bill" is also pretty effective advertising.
You just have to tell them oil is dug up by brown people and solar is made by white people.
I'm sure they can think up a new name for it themselves...
White po--
Almost got me there...
We can take it further... Light comes from the heavens, the domain of the lord almighty. Oil comes from the depths of hell on earth, domain of the devil. Do the right thing Christians, just like you always have, support the anti-devil white people solar power alliance.
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Seriously though, the German liberal party (FDP) has dubbed renewable energy “freedom energy”.
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Would absolutely work in USA.
The word patriot is like a button for mind control.
Do the same for wind power, tell em the blades only kill immigrant birds or something.
It's true. I hear those geese didn't get a visa when they came here from Canada.
The issue isn't in the name. The issue is that a lot of people just don't even want to know what any of this is, and blindly voting for something is bad, no matter how you look at it.
Screaming "woke" at everything is a cultural/educational issue, so I'd rather see resources being spent on that
I'm pretty sure I've seen "Patriot" type branding for massive battery backups targeting preppers.
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We do kinda need to remind people that the founders fought for freedom, fair representation and equality under the law. We are the real patriots, fighting for the same.
I.know you meant well op. <3
Thanks. Actually it was my son's idea. Watching the R debate one of the ads was for a solar batteries backup generator... And we could not stop laughing that it was the Patriots power!
How about slapping something gun-related on it, like that Black Rifle company?
Tbf, thats actually not a bad idea.
Democrats desperately need better marketing, they should hire that dude. Anyone could be doing a better job than whomever they are using.
I remember when even the far majority on the right thought Freedom Fries was a stupid thing.
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Gimme some freedom fries with my patriot panels.
Solar is like Brawndo, it's what plants crave
Smartphone? Patriot Connection Device
Freedom power, you can just walk outside and get bathed in freedom.
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