I assume everyone will just keep calling it by its real name just like we do with the gulf of mexico?
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This is what he wants. He wants another 9/11. He wants to be able to justify declaring martial law or suspending the Bill of Rights for any reason. He wants them to attack us, hell he wants someone here to attack anything. So he could justify burning the Constitution and declaring himself King.
NoO hE wAnTs WhAtS bEsT fOr ThE cOuNtRy!¡!
We are ruled by toddlers...
Gulf of Mexico, you mother fucker.
My mom would not like this name either. Golfina for short?
Who the fuck does this guy think he is?
Oh yes, I remember the great mandate dear leader won on the back of the outcry by the electorate to rename gulfs both here at home and around the world. 🙄
Hey, but egg prices are surely down already!
I am going to both laugh and cry if this is the hill both sides choose to die on. It would be the cherry on top of the Turd Sunday our world has turned into.
lol .... alien archaeologists looking at the ruins of our civilization and trying to figure out why we destroyed ourselves ... not knowing that we blew ourselves up because we were fighting over the name of a body of water on our maps.
Makes you think that all those mysteries of archaeology from the past of lost civilizations might have happened because of some important significant political event .... or because everyone was fighting over a ham sandwich.
That's gonna be one of the saddest parts. Kids will ask teachers, "Why was President Trump willing to go to war over Greenland?" and the likely reply, "Nobody knows, Bobby. Nobody knows."
They'll treat it the same way they treat all history .... everyone will justify everything and rewrite the past to make it make sense for everyone alive.
Look at the history and lead up to WWI ... the first great war ... it didn't have to happen and it only happened because this country went here, did this and tit for tat, we protect that guy with this guy because of that guy ... then full blown war ... all because a bunch of rich guys, kings and queens decided that was what was supposed to happen and everyone followed along like unthinking robots. But we write about it and remember it as some great event that happened for some heroic reasons.
Sundae is the desert ewe were looking four.
Sunday is a dey of the weak.
Seeing as they are a human and not superintelligent lady sheep you both got spell checked lol
A lot of it is bluster. But it's also illustrative of how these names get laid out in the first place. Why is it called Iran and not Persia? Why do so many South American cities and territories have Spanish names? Why is Old New York not called New Amsterdam?
A few bureaucrats in positions of authority can rewrite the map with impunity.
Why is it called Iran and not Persia?
A better question is why was it called Persia and not Iran?
These are the Iranians, if we had a more sane president, they would be the first to die on that hill.
How TF do you just decide to start naming shit in other countries? The Great Pyramids? Now they are "Giant Murica Triple Tittie Buildings" Panama Canal? Now it's jumbled into the "Anal Manacap"
Anal manacap sounds like a butt plug for wizards.
Or a really suspiciously shaped mushroom
Out of Spell Slots? Just hotswap your Anal Manacap like a spidey wrist web cartridge
Dementia
I'm going to start referring to the US as England's Bastard Child. Not sorry, that's just its official name now
The US love calling itself "America" . the argument I always (from non us people) hear is that "every country uses the last word of it's name". So if you change their name, remember to refer to it as " child" and the citizens as children
Apparently we have successfully appropriated the name because no one else in North America would even consider calling themselves Americans.
I suspect it's the same in South America but I don't know many people from down there.
I'm from south america. That's why this thing bothers me
Edit because I now realized I should have said more: correct. No one here call themselves American but not because they deserve it but because it causes confusion. Instead we call you Yankees, because if you say american everyone gives you sideeye
because if you say american everyone gives you sideeye
My first trip to Europe, Met some Candaians and some people from Brazil, casually mentioned we're all from America. Was told nicely to GTFO of that concept. I feel horrible that we've besmirched the name of [the whole/both] fucking continent/s.
I think I'm hitting a bit of a language barrier. What i understand is that they told you not to callt hem Americans? I feel like I need context. I wouldn't want to be called American in public to avoid confusion. But not in that context
It was something along the lines of well we're all Americans,
No no no, don't lump us in there
I'm from the US but we're all from North America.
Oh, sorry, you know, we don't really even want to be associated with that term, you guys can have that one
It's like having neighbors so bad that you don't even want to mention you're in the same community
So the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is either Kingdom, or Ireland?
This a better answer. I always replied "im going to set up a country and name it 'the country that is not the united states of america' so that I can be an american too"
oh, ffs! just call him a "imbecilic moron that will be ignored" and move on. tired of the attention paid to his every mental bowel movement.
just call him a “imbecilic moron that will be ignored”
With the speed at which private companies that manage mapping applications, like Google and Microsoft, roll over, it isn't something that can be ignored.
The American President is now just a graffiti artist who can spray paint with impunity.
The guy who used a sharpie to make a hurricane take a path it never did is a graffiti artist? Who woulda thought?
He did that in his first term.
We're going to see the National Weather Service adjusting their maps to insist he's right this time around.
Unless the org gets abolished. Their goal is the complete removal of agencies that help the people stay safe. They'll remove healthcare last to keep their base placated as long as possible. Their goal appears aimed intentionally at hurting civilians to kill as many freeloaders as they can.
He doesn't rename anything, he sets names for his followers to use
It’s literally called الخليج العربي ( Khaleej al Arabi (Arabian Gulf) It’s marked as that on maps in the Middle East.
Except in Iran
He really thinks he is king of the world.
Boy this tops the list of what I don't care about this week. Its great for making fun of all the renaming stuff coming out of the district of america.
what is the reverse of "i ate The Onion"?
I got eaten by an onion
I pooped an onion?
I barfed an onion
Noino eht eta I
You take the onion...
Tap for spoiler
AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR BUTT!
spoiler Tap for spoiler idk probably just nottheonion :::
:::
Angry brown people are a cash cow to them.
I don’t oppose calling it the Arabian Gulf. I also don’t really give a shit.