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It's all culture war. Wind turbines are sissy energy, diesel is manly energy.

Both failed, unpreparedness all around, but focusing attention on culture war shibboleths is perfect for deflecting attention.

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And yet Texas has built massive amounts of windmills with government subsidies. That’s a fun narrative for people on one side of the cultural divide, but not true.

This alone does not say much. Texas is not 100% one cultural side. In last presidential elections it was 52-46. 46% is large chunk of population.

It does say much because the TX state leadership is very much one sided, and very vocal.

Nahh... true politicians recognize what’s needed, but they are more than happy to run a narrative that suits them and their voters.

I mean, Texas has been leading in wind energy. If they really thought it was sissy energy would they have done that?

Just like Biden talked about student loan forgiveness and now we’re what? Less than a month post inauguration and he’s like “nah, we’re not doing that”.

Nuclear is the only superior energy

Indeed. The Texas nuclear power stations are the only ones to solve the US problem for the next 100.000 years. The wind would blow nuclear over the whole mid east, straight to NY. Palo Verde or Diablo are not in such a superior position.

Once upon a time, black lives were important, every death of the pandemic was the personal kill count of the president.. There used to be hilarious mask debates.

Then the elections got over, and nobody gives a shit.. some would think the real root cause of the pain of these issues was actually just not being in power..

Reader, don't mind the musings of this spectators outside perspective of American politics.. I can't vote in the US, so for all practical purposes not human from an Americans perspective..

Your observation is bang on. Biden just had a town hall on CNN where he said minority communities are more concerned with black-on-black or hispanic-on-hispanic crime than they are police violence. Had his predecessor said such a thing? We'd never hear the end of it. But few even know this town hall even happened. [0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1361877410371657738

Edit: Case and point despite posting a video of Biden saying this, my post is being downvoted into the same memory hole as this town hall.

You're being downvoted because you mischaracterized (I'm being generous with that word) what Biden said. You might refocus your attention on the word "just".

And complaining about downvotes, particularly legitimate uses of the downvote, is frowned on here.

Well, BLM has served its purpose, elections are over. Ofcourse he doesn't want to deal with the actual issues in any real way. I think if you get a black person to be president for 2 terms that would solve everything ;)

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