Don Quixote (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 

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[–] [S] 46 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This clown even claimed that China has no windmills. China has more wind and solar capacity than any other country in the world with twice as much capacity under construction than the rest of the world combined.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattrandolph/2026/01/12/china-does-in-fact-have-wind-turbines-a-lot-of-them/

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Wait, do people without dementia call wind turbines wind mills? I'm not a native speaker

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I'm a native speaker and quite likely to refer to them as windmills. Real windmills are basically museums now, everyone will know what you mean. Although the slightly coarsely-ground flour from the one near ours does make truly delicious bread.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago*

    as with everything, per capita is incredibly important… australia has twice the per capita renewable capacity as china… US is actually only about 100w/capita behind china (about 15%)

    china just has a massive population, so you’d expect their government to necessarily build more power - which is to say nothing about their industrial capacity which, again, necessitates a larger total capacity

    per capita or renewables mix is far more relevant than total capacity

    none of that is a dig at china of course: they’re still doing better than most countries! but let’s not hold them up as a shining beacon when they’re just doing better than average. we can find better examples of success to copy

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  • [–] 43 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I wouldn't normally be pedantic, but because its him, I feel compelled to say, its wind turbine, not windmill, they do 2 different jobs.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Maybe he actually does mean windmill and really hates the Dutch.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I presumed this is what he meant, because who mixes them up? And, he's that kind of person, who would slate a nation for having history and culture.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Why is this stupid pedophile still alive?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Angry Netherlands sounds intensify

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    [–] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Ga jezelf neuken. Tering klotzak.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    He's still pissed off that a wind farm is visible from one of his sea-side golf resorts. I don't recall if it is one that went bankrupt or not.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I saw a shit load of wind turbines in Texas

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    we gaan op ons klompen Nieuw-Amsterdam terugnemen als je niet oppast

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    One time I ate a hallucination paper or two at a concert. I noticed on the 2 hour drive back that all the windmills across the horizon had a blinky red light on top and all of those lights blinked at the same time. I hope anyone who doesn't appreciate the blinky red lights on top of windmills has a painful and drawn out death.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Poor. Rocinante. putting that ass on a horse is animal abuse!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Is that Netherlands?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Well hey America has some wind farms so a broken clock or whatever I don't even know anymore.

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