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The Left is doing it wrong.

We need to stop calling it the green New Deal; and call it the Patriot Power Act.

We’re not trying to go green or “Woke”. No! We’re making ’Merca energy independent! We’ll stop importing oil from the tourist countries! And be energy self sufficient!

—BRANDING!!

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago (2 children)

By that token, America should have bullet trains everywhere

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

It’s our second amendment right! It’s in the Constitution! I demand bullet trains

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Or....stop defining everything as left/right and make things for people. Stop the divide, it's what 'they' want.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It’s when I started looking for answers on mass psychosis. I’m still unclear on the how.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

That is just not how it works. I wish it was, but someone will always make literally whatever political

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

And we can call wind farms, "Jesus Farms!"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And vaccines can be "immunity guns". Want to keep your kids safe? Give their immune system guns!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Keep on going. You’re good at this.

Next, try to come up with suitable branding for teaching stem literacy and critical thinking.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah baby! Sign me up. Sounds awesome.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (25 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

White po--

Almost got me there...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seriously though, the German liberal party (FDP) has dubbed renewable energy “freedom energy”.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Would absolutely work in USA.

The word patriot is like a button for mind control.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do the same for wind power, tell em the blades only kill immigrant birds or something.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It's true. I hear those geese didn't get a visa when they came here from Canada.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure I've seen "Patriot" type branding for massive battery backups targeting preppers.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or enslaved sunrays maybe?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I.know you meant well op. <3

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Terms and conditions applied, it was mostly for wealthy, white men.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

How about slapping something gun-related on it, like that Black Rifle company?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tbf, thats actually not a bad idea.

[–] Corkyskog 16 points 10 months ago

Democrats desperately need better marketing, they should hire that dude. Anyone could be doing a better job than whomever they are using.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Call it the MAPA

Make America Powerful Again

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I remember when even the far majority on the right thought Freedom Fries was a stupid thing.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Gimme some freedom fries with my patriot panels.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Solar is like Brawndo, it's what plants crave

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Why do people have to be like this? Why can't they just accept something without it having to be labeled in terms that appeal to their sensibilities? Why can't they just be honest?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Smartphone? Patriot Connection Device

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Freedom power, you can just walk outside and get bathed in freedom.

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