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[Anonymous No.12074652]

>be Napoleon leader of France in 1803
>country owns land in pic related
>hands so weak he sold those lands for 15 million dollars (or 3 cents per acre)
And you NEETs are complaining about being JUSTed and having to hold for 2 years? Half of you would be speaking French if Napoleon had hodled those American lands.

[Anonymous No.12074660]

>>12074652
>1/3rd of America would be like Quebec

[Anonymous No.12074687]

Actually no you stupid fuck. We were going to take it forcefully from him, since he had half a brain he sold it for anything he could it. Which was quit a bit of money at time.

It’s like Bitcoin the absolute shittiest shit tier shitcoin, and realizing it’s absolute garbage so you sel at $5, which is better than zero, so you can buy link which is going to $1000.

You’re story is cool too bro.

[Anonymous No.12074706]

>>12074652

Did you calculate how much that would be if adjusted to inflation?

It'd be something close to 600 billion in todays money.

[Anonymous No.12074714]

>>12074687
>It’s like Bitcoin the absolute shittiest shit tier shitcoin, and realizing it’s absolute garbage so you sel at $5, which is better than zero

No one here will understand what you are trying to say, don't forget there are actually people on this board who bought at 20k and are still holding

[Anonymous No.12074718]

>>12074687

>2018
>Buying stink

See you at 0.01$ EOY, stinklet.

[Anonymous No.12074752]

>>12074706

What cost $15000000 in 1803 would cost $248652128.20 in 2017.

[Anonymous No.12074771]

>>12074718
>be 2017
>buys 1m link at ICO

have fun in the homeless shelter poor fag

[Anonymous No.12074778]

>>12074652
>implying USA would develop as well if it was managed by the french
Look at south america for examples

[Anonymous No.12074780]

>>12074714
it’s cool i know ur a dumbass and won’t understand it’s ok brah

[Anonymous No.12074802]

Napoleon needed cash now, to try to conquer Europe. Losing Hispaniola was a much greater loss. Also, Napoleon was out of power within 10 years of the sale, so how long of a view should he have taken?

[Anonymous No.12074842]

>>12074778
Sir please tell me which country in south America is speaking French

[Anonymous No.12074895]

>>12074652
Imagine how much better the United States would be in that timeline. German immigrants would have never came here.

[Anonymous No.12074896]

>>12074652
Yea sure he “sold”.
Just like commies “sold” Alaska.
It’s called an “offer you can’t refuse”

[Anonymous No.12074921]

>>12074896
No, it wasn't, for that sort of sale, see Spanish-American War.

[Anonymous No.12074960]

It was a lot of fucking money during that time. Napoleon uniroincally sold the top.

[Anonymous No.12075048]

>own one port city and area known as tornado alley
>not good for farming
>not good for living
>fucking useless land
>short on cash
>making America stronger also makes Britain weaker
>see chance to solve 3 problems at once
>200 years later some unrelated cuck child thinks Denver would be speaking fucking french had you not made awesome deal
fuck off

[Anonymous No.12075051]

>>12074842
Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, and they also owned Haiti.

>I've never heard of the first 3 and the last one is a shit hole!
Exactly.

[Anonymous No.12075075]

>>12075051
They speak english in Guyana

[Anonymous No.12075089]

>>12074652
that middle part is literally empty space with some occasional inbred rural idiots

[Anonymous No.12075092]

>>12075048
>not good for farming
That land is right over a huge aquifer, and most of America's farm land is right there.

[Anonymous No.12075118]

>>12074652
>louisiana & the midwest
honestly 3 cents was overpriced

[Anonymous No.12075133]

>>12075092
because its super cheap land which is required when raising animals. In terms of actual crop farming its much better to do it East of the Mississippi and closer to the Great Lakes.

[Anonymous No.12075152]

>>12074652
>>hands so weak he sold those lands for 15 million dollars (or 3 cents per acre)
i fucked kek'd so hard

[Anonymous No.12075159]

>>12074660
lmao you mean kansas wouldn't have become a shithole? have you been to quebec?

[Anonymous No.12075179]

>>12074652
They lowballed him and he knew it. But he didn't want the USA as an enemy. Imagine if napoleon actually won and did away with the slavic menace. The world would've probably been a way better place.
No Russian communism. No cold war. Probably no nazi germany either. And we know that China would've been BTFO (Japan fucked them up and had way less people).

The entire course of human history could've been changed for the better. Think of a world...where it's just the USA, France, and Japan. No World Wars. We're all just friens presiding over our own domains + south america, africa, and the middle east in harmony

[Anonymous No.12075232]

>>12074752
Thanks for using spacing unhelpful fag

[Anonymous No.12075259]

>>12075051
French Guiana part of France. They have an EU spaceport there, I guess because of proximity to the equator.

[Anonymous No.12075310]

>>12074652
Napoleon was actually a fucking retard.
Until 1795 metropolitan France was the most populous country of Europe, above Russia, and the fourth most populous country in the world, behind only China, India and Japan;
Between 1795 and 1866, metropolitan France was the fourth most populous country in the world, behind China, India and Russia (having become more populous than Japan during this period)
While France was Europe's leading military power at the time of Louis XIV and then Napoleon, the country lost this advantage due to its relative demographic decline after 1800.

The French population only grew by 8.6% between 1871 and 1911, while Germany's grew by 60% and Britain's by 54%.
If the population of France had grown between 1815 and 2000 at the same rate as that of Germany during the same time period, France's population would have been 110 million in 2000.
If France's population had grown at the same rate as that of England and Wales (which was also siphoned off by emigration to the Americas, Australia and New Zealand), France's population could have been as much as 150 million in 2000.

Basically, if Napoleon hadn't bankrupted France and sold off the Louisiana purchase land so he could destroy Europe and LARP as Alexander the Great, there would have been over 100 million Frenchmen in France, and hundreds of millions more in America. They also would have kept their military superiority and would have become the world's leading superpower rather than Britain.

[Anonymous No.12075371]

>>12075310
>if only hitler would have not became a serial painter
stfu and get the fuck out of here faggot

[Anonymous No.12075534]

>>12075051
Suriname was Dutch and Guyana English. Haiti was also an independent country since 1804 and they never developed for shit.
Do even a semblance of research before you post blatant lies you double nigger.

[Anonymous No.12075622]

>>12075179
Yeah except the japanese would be vicious gook asshats raping and pillaging everything like a mongol scum.

wow ur dumb

[Anonymous No.12075639]

>>12074652
It was selling it or losing it to brits or americans anyway since France had like 1/100 of the troops both had on the continent added with the fact there was nothing there at all.

Besides I don't think you realize what an utter shitshow France was in 1803, it basically had the whole fucking world against it (since Europe was curbstomping everyone on the planet) + no money + no access to the sea.

[Anonymous No.12075666]

>>12074660
Actually if Napoleon hadn't lost he'd have sold fractions to spain, England and the US but had to fire sale that shit to the burgers

[Anonymous No.12075687]

>>12075048

Most of that land is fucking excellent for farming. It’s referred to as “America’s Bread Basket” for a reason, anon, and the natives weren’t hostile at that time. He unironically controlled the Mississippi and all trade from New Orleans up to the Great Lakes because of it. However, he wanted money to conquer Europe so he could prove he was a Caesar or Alexander and wasn’t interested in developing the global empire he already had in hand. Napoleon’s wars also enshrined the Rothschilds as masters of the globe.

[Anonymous No.12075723]

>>12075179

You know the Napoleonic wars and the need to pay for them is what caused the Rothschilds to raise from “rich bankers” to “global puppet masters and war-for-profit manipulators,” right? No Napoleon and they would have been about equal to JP Morgan. If Napoleon had just been content with rebuilding France after the revolution, France would have had a global empire to surpass the British and there may never have been a unified Germany as a result of his conquests of Central Europe.

[Anonymous No.12075760]

>>12075133
Who gives a rats ass how cheap it is per acre, there's a fuck load of it. It's called natural resources. The more you have the richer you are. Have a look at who the largest economy in the world is. That land is a large part of the reason why. Now compare the size of that economy to France and laugh. Or even to the entire EU. The USA has an economy larger than 2 dozen countries put together. That land helped. Thank you based Napoleon

[Anonymous No.12075781]

>>12075687
>Eating wheat products.
You must be one of those fucks that believe the food pyramid should be based around bread. Fat disgusting fuck.

[Anonymous No.12075852]

>>12075781

They grow a lot more than where there. Choice beef, pork, poultry, corn, and onions, for starters. Also, the French eat a lot more wheat than most nations.

[Anonymous No.12076045]

>>12075534
No

[Anonymous No.12076776]

>>12074687
>It’s like Bitcoin the absolute shittiest shit tier shitcoin, and realizing it’s absolute garbage so you sel at $5, which is better than zero, so you can buy link which is going to $1000.

based

[Anonymous No.12076836]

>>12074652
Haha imagine defending that shit with musketmen and cannons from France, with one port.

[Anonymous No.12076942]

>>12074652
>Russia had A colony in California

Ugh... What cod had been