Conquer Club, a free online multiplayer variation of a popular world domination board game.
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GreecePwns wrote:Ask a Dutchman or a German to say the word "squirrel," then tell me if he really speaks English.
Ha Ha. How did you come up with that?GreecePwns wrote:Ask a Dutchman or a German to say the word "squirrel," then tell me if he really speaks English.
JJM wrote:Ha Ha. How did you come up with that?GreecePwns wrote:Ask a Dutchman or a German to say the word "squirrel," then tell me if he really speaks English.
Frito Bandito wrote:Actually, Polk was a pretty great president, he greatly expanded our borders.
BigBallinStalin wrote:If expanding political boundaries makes someone great, then Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were great people in this respect too! YIPPEE!!!
spurgistan wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:If expanding political boundaries makes someone great, then Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were great people in this respect too! YIPPEE!!!
We may want to add the fact that Polk expanded political boundaries in a sustainable manner to differentiate him from these statesmen.
BigBallinStalin wrote:spurgistan wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:If expanding political boundaries makes someone great, then Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were great people in this respect too! YIPPEE!!!
We may want to add the fact that Polk expanded political boundaries in a sustainable manner to differentiate him from these statesmen.
That's a good point, but what's a "sustainable manner"?
According to wikipedia, Polk threatened war with Great Britain, so they split the Oregon Territory. After annexing Texas, Polk defeated Mexico.
So, our "manner" is war or the threat of war (which can be diplomacy backed by the actual capability to inflict harm). Come on back, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Napoleon! But wait!
What's "sustainable"? That would be length of time and the ability to retain those expanded borders.
The political boundaries which were expanded by Mao have been sustained for the past 60 years.
Soviet Union, about 80 years.
In conclusion, Polk is the Greatest President ever!!!
the ability to take more. Baron Von PWN wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:spurgistan wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:If expanding political boundaries makes someone great, then Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were great people in this respect too! YIPPEE!!!
We may want to add the fact that Polk expanded political boundaries in a sustainable manner to differentiate him from these statesmen.
That's a good point, but what's a "sustainable manner"?
According to wikipedia, Polk threatened war with Great Britain, so they split the Oregon Territory. After annexing Texas, Polk defeated Mexico.
So, our "manner" is war or the threat of war (which can be diplomacy backed by the actual capability to inflict harm). Come on back, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Napoleon! But wait!
What's "sustainable"? That would be length of time and the ability to retain those expanded borders.
The political boundaries which were expanded by Mao have been sustained for the past 60 years.
Soviet Union, about 80 years.
In conclusion, Polk is the Greatest President ever!!!
Woah nelly are you way off on that Soviet number. The Soviet Union reached its greatest extent at the end of the second world war so 1945. (with the anexation of Konisberg now Kaliningrad). It began to shrink shortly before its collapse in 1990. So we have territories within the Soviet Union, under Soviet control for a mere 45 years.
Polk actually reached a compromise with the UK, he clearly favoured peaceful resolutions. He made this compromise despite having a better claim to the land (more settlers) and a better ability to actually take the entirety of the Oregon territory and linking up with Alaska. However Polk showed wisdom and instead went for the very reasonable division along the 49th parallel.
saxitoxin wrote:Baron Von PWN wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:spurgistan wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:If expanding political boundaries makes someone great, then Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were great people in this respect too! YIPPEE!!!
We may want to add the fact that Polk expanded political boundaries in a sustainable manner to differentiate him from these statesmen.
That's a good point, but what's a "sustainable manner"?
According to wikipedia, Polk threatened war with Great Britain, so they split the Oregon Territory. After annexing Texas, Polk defeated Mexico.
So, our "manner" is war or the threat of war (which can be diplomacy backed by the actual capability to inflict harm). Come on back, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Napoleon! But wait!
What's "sustainable"? That would be length of time and the ability to retain those expanded borders.
The political boundaries which were expanded by Mao have been sustained for the past 60 years.
Soviet Union, about 80 years.
In conclusion, Polk is the Greatest President ever!!!
Woah nelly are you way off on that Soviet number. The Soviet Union reached its greatest extent at the end of the second world war so 1945. (with the anexation of Konisberg now Kaliningrad). It began to shrink shortly before its collapse in 1990. So we have territories within the Soviet Union, under Soviet control for a mere 45 years.
Polk actually reached a compromise with the UK, he clearly favoured peaceful resolutions. He made this compromise despite having a better claim to the land (more settlers) and a better ability to actually take the entirety of the Oregon territory and linking up with Alaska. However Polk showed wisdom and instead went for the very reasonable division along the 49th parallel.
Had it not been for Polk, Baron Von PWN might be speaking American today.
BigBallinStalin wrote:According to Howard Zinn's A People's History of the US, the US instigated the Mexican-American War by encouraging American settlers to settle in lands past the river. IIRC, the Mexicans responded by having their military push them back out, and the US already had a garrison nearby to respond. The general gist of his argument was that the US instigated it and had some US military presence there in order to let the situation escalate.
Not really sure how true that is because Howard Zinn gets kind of dubious on his sources...
Phatscotty wrote:Neoteny wrote:Also, I demand an option for BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Doesn't even need to finish a term huh? No need to wait for the results on his pet project? To see if the economy even gets turned around? Wouldn't you even like to wait and see if his promise to keep unemployment under 8% ever worked?
Of course not...
BigBallinStalin wrote:spurgistan wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:If expanding political boundaries makes someone great, then Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were great people in this respect too! YIPPEE!!!
We may want to add the fact that Polk expanded political boundaries in a sustainable manner to differentiate him from these statesmen.
That's a good point, but what's a "sustainable manner"?
According to wikipedia, Polk threatened war with Great Britain, so they split the Oregon Territory. After annexing Texas, Polk defeated Mexico.
So, our "manner" is war or the threat of war (which can be diplomacy backed by the actual capability to inflict harm). Come on back, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Napoleon! But wait!
What's "sustainable"? That would be length of time and the ability to retain those expanded borders.
The political boundaries which were expanded by Mao have been sustained for the past 60 years.
Soviet Union, about 80 years.
In conclusion, Polk is the Greatest President ever!!!
InkL0sed wrote:YOU MONSTER
BigBallinStalin wrote:If expanding political boundaries makes someone great, then Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were great people in this respect too! YIPPEE!!!
saxitoxin wrote:Phatscotty wrote:and what coins started being minted in 1986....
That coin is only tender to the $5 value printed on its face. It probably has $1600 of gold in it at current prices but to get the $1600 out of it you'd have to take it to a gold broker and sell it for paper currency, you can't present it for payment of "all debts public and private." If the value is only set to the face value of the coin, not the value of the metal in it, it's just a novelty collector's piece, not a part of the money supply like gold coins in a gold-backed system.
Reagan had the mint get into the collectible coins business to unload all of the gold the U.S. government had laying around after Nixon decoupled the U.S. from the gold standard and Ford legalized private gold ownership.
Phatscotty wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Phatscotty wrote:and what coins started being minted in 1986....
That coin is only tender to the $5 value printed on its face. It probably has $1600 of gold in it at current prices but to get the $1600 out of it you'd have to take it to a gold broker and sell it for paper currency, you can't present it for payment of "all debts public and private." If the value is only set to the face value of the coin, not the value of the metal in it, it's just a novelty collector's piece, not a part of the money supply like gold coins in a gold-backed system.
Reagan had the mint get into the collectible coins business to unload all of the gold the U.S. government had laying around after Nixon decoupled the U.S. from the gold standard and Ford legalized private gold ownership.
But you can deposit that coin into an individual retirement account.
Phatscotty wrote:Of which the US gov't started making in 1986 thanks to Ronald Reagan!
