Egads. My otherwise liberal cousin is pro-fracking!

[intheflow]

I live in Fracking Central, in Colorado, where towns are being denied the right to determine if they want to allow fracking or not within town limits. My own conservative troll town wholeheartedly embraces fracking, and there are multiple operations within 2 miles of my house in any direction. So I've been posting a lot of local anti-fracking news on my fb page.

My cousin inevitably jumps on these threads with all kinds of pro-fracking bullshit which is so weird because he's a raging liberal on all other issues. I don't want to block him because he can offer valuable information on other subjects, but FFS, he needs to STFU already on fracking issues. Anyone got any suggestions how to handle otherwise sane people who hold weird opinions on certain subjects? I'd love to find a tactful way to tell him to not troll my fracking posts, but I'm afraid it will come out sounding like, "FFS, STFU already about the pro-fracking bullshit!!"

[DFW]

1. Is he willing to live on top of a fracking site and drink the water?

I always had the same argument about nuclear power. Make it the law that the guys who own a nuclear power plant must live within a mile of it. I think the same should apply to guys who own companies doing fracking. THAT should provide for some additional safety measures (I would STILL ban fracking tomorrow if I could).

[intheflow]

2. He does live near fracking operations.

That's what so insane about it. Here's how nutty he is: he thinks the public outcry against fracking is backed by the coal and nuclear industries.

[Chan790]

3. We've all got one...

a otherwise progressive relative that believes something nutso.

Mine is my youngest brother; he's an aggressively-redistributionist socialist who completely buys the Libertarian line on the Federal Reserve, gold standard and thinks that any gun-control measure (including the ones that bar or inflict additional hurdles (such as registration or taxation) on private citizens from owning bazookas, machine guns and tactical nukes) are violations of the 2nd Amendment.

Asked to justify that, he sees no conflict between his libertarianism and his socialism.