r/todayilearned • u/Capital_Tailor_7348 • 1d ago

Til that Nicholas Trist the amassador sent to negotiate the end to the Mexican American war was fired from his post by president Polk. Trist responded by ignoring Polk’s order to return to the US and continued to negotiate the end of the war with Mexico.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Trist
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u/bombayblue 1d ago

The big point of contention was Baja California. Polk wanted it included in California proper and Trist let Mexico keep it in order to sign the treaty.

It’s ironic because today it has hundreds of thousands of American expats living there. I met a few locals who would argue that the Americans “invaded” post covid and won the territory anyways.

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u/francis2559 1d ago

God I wish borders were more open. Let people live wherever they hell they want.

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u/Freethecrafts 23h ago

Sure, you say that now. Wait until forty are living on your sidewalk in nice place everyone wants to live but nobody can build apartments in.

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u/francis2559 23h ago

The answer is always: build more houses

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u/Freethecrafts 23h ago

It was hard to do, but they’re building one on your driveway.

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u/SnickeringFootman 22h ago

Great. My driveway is worth a fortune now and people are housed. Win win.

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u/1duck 19h ago

Nah your house has no value because we built so many houses, the one on your driveway is worth less than nothing because it's on a driveway. It's ok go for a walk in the countryside oh wait that's been paved over to build some more houses.

Best go get some groceries, whoops all the shops are barren because we just built more houses on the farmland and all the countries that could supply food don't have a population anymore as they streamed into whatever country they thought could support them.

Ah well time to retire! Oh we scrapped that as we had too many people and not enough people who had paid in, they just turned up in their 40s to claim a pension. Awkward. We would bury you but the graveyards are full. Shame.

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u/Insertgeekname 15h ago

Building so many houses we don't grow food is such a wild perspective.

I love a good science fiction story but how many houses do you think we're going to build until we're one giant ecumenopolis?

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u/ImAnEagle 16h ago

Quite the creative writing exercise. And then little green men invaded and everyone died?

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u/SymbolicWhiteHorse 19h ago

The immigrant you should be worried about is in the white house.

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u/Freethecrafts 15h ago

Nah. She did the work Americans refused to do. Can’t even imagine how terrible Eastern Europe must have been at the time for her to consider it a deal.

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u/shogun_ 23h ago

No the houses are already built. The answer is affordable.

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u/francis2559 23h ago

Guess what guess what. You can make housing more affordable by

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u/1duck 19h ago

Reducing the population and levels of migration.

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u/ZalutPats 20h ago

Did you mean to reveal how you don't understand the basics of supply and demand?

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u/ThrowbackPie 15h ago

won't happen until all governments are the same, ie never. Although there are countries with extreme migration flexibility like Australia and New Zealand.

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 1d ago

Well? Did he end the war or not?

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u/Capital_Tailor_7348 1d ago

Yes. Polk and his southern democracts where unhappy with the deal as they wanted more of Mexico to turn into slave states but Polk accepted the treaty trist negotiated since he wanted the war to end during his term.

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u/ItsCowboyHeyHey 1d ago

New Pony Express, who dis?

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u/DeusSpaghetti 21h ago

'You don't work for me anymore. I order you to come home.' 'You're not the boss of me'.

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u/Freethecrafts 17h ago

Here’s the treaty you ordered, and side of panera bread.