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cookiesforsale 64 points ago +64 / -0

Yeah environmentalists don't realise how heavy these things are or even their actual size. Not to mention how ineffective they are as there is only a small band of wind speeds they can actually operate in.

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BunnyPicnic 61 points ago +61 / -0

Green hippies don't know anything about real world happenings. They grew up in fantasy land and never left. Same idiots think wile e coyote brings babies across the border lmao. How did we ever allow retards to get this much power?

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AraphelEinSof 13 points ago +13 / -0

but but its like mother earths breath man. Its like gods air yo. How can they just like, farm God's air and moms breath like that man?! Fascist! Lmao

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LibsOnSuicideWatch 7 points ago +7 / -0

How did we ever allow retards to get this much power?

We didn't. They stole an election and no one even let us present our evidence of it.

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BunnyPicnic 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm talking big picture, spanning decades and multiple positions of power. The people running our universities are literally retarded.

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WhatUCan 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think it comes down to something as simple as

Conservatives know the truth and are confident that they know the truth. They do not seek people to constantly validate the way they u view the world and are more lax with the people they surround themselves with.

Leftys/commies are the exact opposite

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Hewhodont 27 points ago +28 / -1

I've been lead to believe that they also do considerably harmful to all living creatures, but most obviously birds and humans.

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cookiesforsale 36 points ago +36 / -0

Yeah when you put a giant spinning fan blade in the sky birds tent to get the short straw on that. And because it damages the birds and they mostly put the wind farms near crop areas the bug population goes nuts so we then spray the crops to kill the bugs which results in less food for the birds which results in less birds so more bugs... which we then spray for.... you get the cycle

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ChrisTheSoberITGuy 24 points ago +24 / -0

Don't forget the hundreds of acres of destroyed habitats they need to dig up for the foundations and cables.

All to power a city block.

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MAGASpaceCat 9 points ago +10 / -1

Not just birds, insects as well. Billions daily.

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ignorant_slob 6 points ago +6 / -0

They shut a wind farm down in California because of the impact to migratory birds. It turns out that windy areas also are used by birds to migrate.

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SomeRandomGuy77 8 points ago +8 / -0

Along the right track, if it were about simply getting rid of oil and gas they'd go with nuclear, but if they went with nuclear they'd undercut their "climate refugees" vector.

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SomeRandomGuy77 4 points ago +4 / -0

Products and services are irrelevant when there's an elite class and slave class, the real minimum wage for all persons is actually 1200 Kcal a day. What's happening as an incidental consequence of neo-liberalism does not at all cover it.

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splink 4 points ago +4 / -0

Kind of like how they're all "save the random newt!" but ignore the sheer slaughter these turbines and solar panels are wreaking on avians and bats.

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bangbus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, Warren Buffett needs to eat too. His company owns a ton of those windmills in the Midwest.

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AlcoholicRetard 16 points ago +16 / -0

Yeah I went out to Utah once and I saw ton of them out rotting in the sun, they weren’t profitable so they just abandon them since they’re too expensive to take down.

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PhilosoGuido 4 points ago +4 / -0

In Italy it's they have the same thing (for a different reason). The mafia exploits all the government subsidies to build them using shell companies which keep the money and never finish the projects.

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CannonballJunior 2 points ago +3 / -1

So coal mining companies are required by law to do extensive reclamation work on their abandoned mines (there are now about 15,000 wild elk in eastern Kentucky living on those reclaimed mines). But the wind power industry can just abandon huge windmill farms to litter the landscape for decades to come? Unreal.

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IslamIsEvil 0 points ago +1 / -1

elk don't live in eastern kentucky. perhaps you mean deer.

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CannonballJunior 3 points ago +3 / -0

Oh really? Well that will come as an enormous surprise to the hundreds of hunters who each harvest an elk every year in eastern Kentucky.

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CannonballJunior 2 points ago +2 / -0

In addition to the legal elk seasons in Kentucky, there are now legal elk hunting seasons in Tennessee and Pennsylvania (PA's had some legal elk hunting off & on for over a century).

Besides KY (largest elk population east of the Rocky Mountain states), PA and TN, there are also wild herds in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Michigan (over a century), Wisconsin, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Florida (one small free herd 50+ years in NE FL), South Dakota, North Dakota (I don't think SD ever lost all of their elk - not sure about ND).

Turns out they're in 31 states now with that set to increase as there are currently 2-3 more states studying restoration efforts. There's been a lot of restoration of elk the last 25 years, and also some restored elk populations have crossed state lines and established breeding populations (KY to VA & WV); an individual KY elk in OH; 1 or 2 individual NC elk documented so far in SC).

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HuggableBear 2 points ago +2 / -0

Wait until you find out how they're recycled when they break or are decommissioned