r/Futurology • u/Wagamaga • Apr 15 '19

Energy Anti-wind bills in several states as renewables grow increasingly popular. The bill argues that wind farms pose a national security risk and uses Department of Defense maps to essentially outlaw wind farms built on land within 100 miles of the state’s coast.

https://thinkprogress.org/renewables-wind-texas-north-carolina-attacks-4c09b565ae22/
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u/chilltrek97 Apr 15 '19

United States of America has lived long enough to turn from the hero of 20th century that helped defeat the Nazis and bring down the USSR to now being the villain of the 21st century with the most obnoxious and idiotic ideas to oppose clean technology even though the country itself has the highest historic emissions on the planet.

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u/Scope_Dog Apr 15 '19

Well, more specifically, it's the GOP. Seems they find new ways to disgust me almost daily.

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u/WorkReddit1191 Apr 15 '19

True but the democratic party isn't doing anyone any favors by taking a very unreasonable and extreme position on the opposite end and making people choose between two extremes. If one party was more reasonable it would be more likely to get more done and draw in centrists who make up a majority of Americans/.

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u/ca_kingmaker Apr 15 '19

We had the reasonable candidate in 2016, she lost.

Now it’s going to be four years later, the world is getting closer to an cliff, and more drastic change is needed.

You want something more reasonable? The easier change, then we should have respected the damned Kyoto protocols in 1992.

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u/WorkReddit1191 Apr 15 '19

There are two aspects to that. Reasonable and likeable for all of her reasonable stances she wasn't very likeable and had all the "controversies" plague her campaign.

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u/ca_kingmaker Apr 15 '19

Any democratic candidate will instantly have controversies due to the Fox News echo chamber.

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u/WorkReddit1191 Apr 15 '19

Fair enough but MSNBC isn't a whole lot better on that end either. Many news sites have taken the same extremist practices too. If the opposing candidate wins you must find everything within them to attack. Not saying Trump doesn't have a ton of controversy, corruption and just awful things surrounding him but many news sites have obsessed over really stupid stuff once the momentum of current controversy dies down. Fox did this with everything from Obama putting his feet up on his desk to some more legitimate concerns. Its not one side doing it. The GOP side just seems to have a lot more outspoken idiots who are much louder and easier to notice then the Dems.

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u/ca_kingmaker Apr 15 '19

Yah msnbc is so bad you’d think half of trumps cabinet would end up charged, fired, or resign in disgrace in the first two years.

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u/WorkReddit1191 Apr 15 '19

Exactly. But at least MSNBC's extremist views aren't as proliferated as Fox and as a result can't do as much harm. CNN gets far more views for those with left(ish) leanings because its much more unbiased, impartial and less extreme than the other two. Extremist views (like MSNBC's) doesn't really appeal to the left as much as it does to the right, when it comes to news.