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Yeah, conquistadores such as Fernando Cortez didn't have any sort of overwhelming combat advantage against the Aztecs...

It's the new Nike Free, a shoe thinner than the old Cortez dreamt up by Bowerman in the Seventies.

They rather put in with Cortez then send their kids off to the annual Aztec Hunger Games [Flower Wars].

Had Cortez and his men died in the jungle, that would not have been regarded as a bold act of leadership.

Fremont East is a popular spot, all of those bars, the Cortez etc.

When William conquered Britain, when Cortez conquered Mexico, their soldiers made fortunes.

Hernan Cortez didn't burn his ships because it was prudent.

When Cortez burned his ships when he came to America, it was to give his men a choice between following him and certain death - failure wasn't an option.

Alexandra Ocasio Cortez triggers a violation?

Plus you have outburst from Maxine, ol’ Joe miss Occasionally Cortez and others calling for people to take to the streets and to take up violence… sorry but it’s both doing this.

Build a mile high pyramid on a Nevadan playa, a canal to the Sea of Cortez to re-flood the Salton Sea, humans on other planets, new city states a la Praxis, interstellar probes, etc.

Cortez was welcomed as an "Ambassador" vs as a conqueror.

But I think "managed opposition is the best you can get as voter" is incorrect; Trump is in my view neither managed nor "pro-establishment" in any way, and if everything was actually under "capitalist" control, then people like Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez or Tim Walz would never be allowed even close to a position of power.

The mainstream figures from the American left like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders are just too lightweight.

Ocasio-Cortez struck me with a description of this socio-economic climate on NPR's morning edition a while back.

Three notable generals who successfully implemented this strategy are Tariq ibn-Ziyad, Hurnan Cortez, and Xiang Yu.