This has been the story for almost all renewables. The EU has been putting money into development and commercialization. As the costs come down the US is a fast-follower and free rides off the benefits.
Sort of like what they do to us with pharmaceuticals.

Offshore wind is still getting cheaper, in the long term we’ll…

I say this, with all sincerity, that you’ve added nothing to the conversation.

Foreigners can also buy that gas now too. Which is why its so important to connect this field to the Gulf.

Yeah, those dudes in Boston back in in the 1700's didn’t start anything meaningful with their rabble-rousing...

lol wtf is this

ETA: You think we’re only two generations into women raising children? Where were you that whole time when women couldn’t even get into the workforce?

Not to mention the huge hissy fit Bush-era conservatives threw about Revenge of the Sith allegedly being an attack on the Bush administration. Particularly the bit about granting more power to the executive in light of a crisis, and Padme saying “so this is how democracy dies: with thunderous applause.”

In fairness, that philosophy is being applied to completely different principles. Bringing the strength of your will toward the use of the Force is very different from a gentle reminder to not be a fascist dickhole.

Wouldn’t they be more offended by him being an elite university professor?

To say nothing of Anakin almost directly quoting President Bush’s “You’re either with us or against us” in RotS, only to be refuted by Obi-Wan with “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”

The fact that Star Wars is about rebels buckling against the status quo IS a political act. You have to be willfully ignorant to demonize a piece of media for being political.

Well if you really want to go into the rules you said it yourself: “the game has some weird way to play it”.

That does seem to be the real takeaway: Twitch policies, applied without regard to nuance or situational requirements, are effectively driving traffic to Hitbox.

...never has the Ourborous of corporate bureaucracy been quite so prominently on display.

William Henry Harrison’s boss move of taking office them promptly dying is looking like a pretty sweet deal compared to what we’re facing.

The ghost of James Buchanan just did a fist pump.

You know who else had to tell everyone he was smart? Fredo Corleone.

“Lets make the facts louder than the opinions.”