Which America? South America? North America? How can it be the gulf of the entire continent?
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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Can we pleast waste the next 4 years renaming things and get nothing practical done? That sounds like perfectly good mud to spin the tires in.
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Let's not forget, conservatives, CEOs and all that bunch operate with methods of a parlor magician. The louder they jingle the keys in one hand, the more we should be paying attention to what they are doing with the other.
Exactly this. All this outlandish bullshit is meant to soften the blow of something truly awful cooking.
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The media now see's it's job as shutting up and taking the bait, i see
Wait until he hears about Mexico not being named America either!
"Mexico is in Central America, so it must belong to the USA!"
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But then they bitch about China and their wrongdoings in the South China Sea
Yeah because a stupid old man wanting to change the name is totally the same as building islands and putting military bases on then
You're right, but I worry this is an expansion of rhetoric similar to Taiwan. "It's always been our gulf. They're using land on our gulf."
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I wonder how long it will be before the white house issues a 9 dash line Trump has hastily marked up with a red permanent marker.
Moderates who "voted for the economy" right now: 🤡
Also leftists who refused to vote at all because Harris didn't solve the Middle East conflicts from the Vice President's desk.
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Besides the absurdity of this, who gets to decide the name of a geographical feature?
If this were to actually happen wouldn’t it mean literally nothing? Like maybe officially in the USA it would be referred to by its new name but why would other countries follow? And I get that that the USA does a lot in the Gulf, but from my [very basic] understanding most of it is international waters.
Could legislation be proposed to rename the Atlantic Ocean? And if so wouldn’t that just end up with the USA following strange semantics other countries don’t?
It mostly would.
Hungary renamed an iconic square in Budapest like 10 years ago. Most of the city still calls it Moscow Square.
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Trump knows what he’s doing, I feel his goal is to say more eye catching things to drive peoples focus away from other ongoing things.
Invade Mexico, invade greenland, rename the gulf..... hello... he's bonkers, what the fuck are we doing letting this shit back in power....
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I hope he doesn't hear about the Gulf of California. He is not going to understand that the Californias were Mexican and, thus, the Gulf is still named after the fact. He's going to claim some wacky s*it like "the name indicates it belongs to one of our states", "Mexicans are trying to steal California's assets", or something like that.
I say USA will now be called ‘Bunch of Dumb Fuck Heads’ My mom already approved it.