Fuck, I honestly thought this was the Onion. Somebody get me out of this timeline. I withdraw consent for this simulation!
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Pretty sure it's called "Gulf of How The Fuck Does This Lower Grocery Prices"
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Hey everyone, I just signed a lemmy order changing the name of maralago to gaping jizz hole. Enjoy!
Thank you for your service, sir/madam. You're already a better executive than some presidents I can think of, thinking of what the people want.
As the first matter of business I need to immediately address, my resignation. No one man is equipped to weild the power of the lemexcutive for much longer than I have.
Farewell lemmings. Until we shit post together again.
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Use "Oblast" instead of state for every single red shithole.
This should include the beautiful Oblast of New America if we are anyway in the process of renaming things.
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Anyone else remember "freedom fries"? That's what we were supposed to call french fries when conservatives were upset that the French were not supporting the US invasion of Iraq.
But I don’t remember our government wasting time and official action on that. It was just a “popular” movement supported by propaganda
It’s even stupider when you remember that fries are from Belgium.
And that "frenched" is the way they're cut, not that they have anything to do with the country.
Yeah, it started in WWI.
From a 1976 interview with German-American T. Max Kniesche, who moved to San Francisco in 1907, and worked in restaurants and cafes there:
Teiser: What was it like in San Francisco for Germans during the first world war? You were working at a clearly German restaurant. [...]
Teiser: Did you change the kind of food that you served, or the decorations?
Kniesche: Well, the hamburger steak was Liberty Steak. French-fried potatoes were Liberty Potatoes. [laughter] We called it Liberty, but the liberty wasn't there. Anyhow, everything went to "Liberty." [laughter]
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Who's gonna tell him?
The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal, with the name given by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller.
So it should really be "Ameriga"?
Brazilians also Americans.
Venezuelans also Americans.
Canadians? Yep Americans
Having a step dad from Buenos Aires, I'm offended you forgot Argentina. But they have their own kind of crazy MAGA there, currently...
I remember Buenos Aires! I'm doing my part!
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Ahem. Umm, conservatives are angry that others are not calling something what THEY want it to be called?
Hmm. So.... I just feel like... perhaps, there's a similarity here. Some people... want to be referred to a specific way... but usually conservatives have a problem with that.
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Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere, but who even has the legal right to rename the gulf? It doesn't belong to USA, right? So we can't just rename it, right? If we did, everybody else in the world would keep calling it The Gulf of Mexico, right?
If we did, everybody else in the world would keep calling it The Gulf of Mexico, right?
Most countries don't call it "The Gulf of Mexico". For example in my country it's "Mexický záliv".
Did you know that Confucius was one of the rudest people to ever live? He never said "thank you" or "please" in his entire life.
Point is this is just Golf of Mexico in another language. Maybe not 100% literal, but it associates the site with the country Mexico, not America (which Mexico is a part of, but I'm not sure MAGAts understand or want to understand the nuance).
The point is that the Czech name for the gulf has nothing to do with how Americans are calling it, it's not even the same language. Why should be care Trump calls it different? He's not our president, you know.
Yeah, it's not like we English speakers call Germany Deutschland. And it's not like we call the Persian Gulf the Iranian gulf after Iran changed it's name.
To a certain degree countries respect other countries' rights to nominative self determination. It's actually pretty similar to how we respect people's nominative self determination. When a country we interact with regularly significantly changes their name we generally adapt, but we typically do so in our own language, and we often don't bother if they don't mind the nickname we use.
Geographic features on the other hand, we usually need a good reason. There's a reason they're typically officially called whatever they're actually called. The back and forth over the naming of Denali is weird in part because most Americans barely remembered it's existence between name changes.
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Every sovereign state can publish maps require everyone to use it as reference for further publication in its own territory. Hence you'll see different maps on Google for different regions. There's a UN committee to coordinate these and also to publish international water area names.
For people always calling the others "snowflakes" and "easily triggered", they sure do have a thin skin.
Maybe, but this is all a distraction from the actions that matter. They don't want to debate the anti-trans stuff or the immigration stuff, which is objectively bad. They want to debate people not going with a made up name for a thing, which has no objectivity. The longer they can argue about this the less time there is to discuss anything important.
Its not just being thin skinned. It's a strategy of distraction.
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Wait, that really happened? I thought the gulf of Mexico renamed shit was just memeing. Google maps still shows the proper name instead of the tantrum name.
The president ordered it. There is no legal mechanism to compel private companies to use the new name.
There is no legal mechanism to compel private companies to use the new name.
There is also no legal mechanism to require any other country on the planet to pay attention to Trump's stupid and pointless attempt at renaming it.
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With all the other bullshit, I missed this EO being made. Jesus fuck.
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They want an efficient government not wasting time and resources on unnecessary things ...
They get a government crying over the name of a body of water.
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There is no gulf with that name anywhere in the world.
You'll have to go back and figure out what you mean. Feel free to let us know once you find the name of a real gulf.