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They don't care about facts; I have fought this fight for way too long and they don't care.
To most anti-progressive/reactionaries/conservatives in the US, windmills represent a "leftist" ideology, they represent an acknowledgement of climate change, and are thus part of the enemy and that's about as far as it goes. The brain is an amazing tool, it invents stories to reinforce any feeling, even more readily if someone supplies a story, so they cling to the "dead birds" BS because it sounds right and feels good to paint leftists as inconsistent and hateful of the animals they claim to want to protect. It's not factual, it's narrative.
If we all got better about trying to fight narratives with new narratives instead of bashing our head against these mindless clams with facts and statistics, we would change the world.