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Someone bust his chops, everyone else up vote it. This fucker wants 1 billion Americans, what a psycho.

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  • TossedAccount [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Okay so I think I overlooked a third option of the US playing a potentially much-more-dangerous zero sum game to win additional direct imperial control of foreign populations and assimilating them into the US population through conquest.

    Check out this ridiculous exchange:

    [runtheroad asks:] We need more states, but besides Puerto Rico and DC domestic options seem limited. Which countries do you think would be the best candidates to become the 53rd state?

    [Matty answers:] Well, I'd add Guam and the US Virgin Islands. But I also think the US should consider territorial expansion. The Bahamas would be a great state.

    Are we sure this isn't just a reddit joke account pretending to be Matty Glacier? Or is he actually batshit enough to advocate winning/purchasing control of a UK territory like it's still the turn of the 20th century?