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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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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 90 points 1 year ago

By that token, America should have bullet trains everywhere

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 year ago

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

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 year 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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[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Keep on going. You’re good at this.

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

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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).

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah baby! Sign me up. Sounds awesome.

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[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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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[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

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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[-] CarlCook@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year 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.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would absolutely work in USA.

The word patriot is like a button for mind control.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago

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...

[-] ATShields934@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

White po--

Almost got me there...

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[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] 30mag@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This issue has been framed as a national security issue before and branded as "energy independence".

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[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year 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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] bouh@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Or enslaved sunrays maybe?

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] jerome@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I.know you meant well op. <3

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year 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!

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

It is frustrating that Democrats can't get branding right because they simply do not understand who they are dealing with. You cannot appeal to these people by sounding reasonable and intellectual

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[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Call it the MAPA

Make America Powerful Again

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 10 points 1 year ago

Tbf, thats actually not a bad idea.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Gimme some freedom fries with my patriot panels.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Solar is like Brawndo, it's what plants crave

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

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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[-] cake@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

Smartphone? Patriot Connection Device

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

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