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reading between the lines, what they're pretty clearly asking for is a profit guarantee from the US taxpayer (at like 40 bucks a barrel) and I'd bet they get it too

deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright

let's fix this in 2026. we're reading full sentences again. we're thinking for four (4) whole seconds before flying off the handle. we're bringing back the use mention distinction, we're bringing it back very strongly

heck, im blogging right now. got 4,600 words plus a bunch of charts and latex over in the vs code window next to this one. starship troopers "im doing my part".

It was a bunch of people who are familiar with a caricature of an American imperialist, but have never met a real one, so they mistook an American doing an explainer for an American endorsing imperialism.