[theworstshill]

The biggest democratic state in history grabbed Hawai and occupied the Philippines. But now in the 21st century, since the world is "civilized", lets change the rules. Awfully close to patent trolling.

Anyway UN is doing its work fine. Its somewhat useless, but better than nothing.

[munificent]

> Its somewhat useless, but better than nothing.

That's not a glowing review for an organization who's budget was >$12 billion in 2012. [1]

To what better use could that money have been put?

[1]: http://www.un.org/en/hq/dm/budget.shtml http://www.un.org/en/hq/dm/pdfs/oppba/Regular%20Budget.pdf

[kesselvon]

So when did the Philippines become a U.S. state?

[hartpuff]

Did he say it became a US state?