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Vaniver comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 12 August 2015 01:14:07PM 1 point [-]

But we also took Texas and California, and all Americans would agree that at least one of these acquisitions worked out for us.

I meant that the invasion plan failed, not that if the invasion plan had succeeded, it would have been worse than the mainline history.

If we had absorbed Cuba in 1902 instead of letting it go, I think it would have worked out well (but not as well as Texas or California--it probably would seem comparable to Florida as a state).