• .Donuts@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You say that, but my European Google Maps shows a double name. Obviously Google is American but they are imposing this name on us in other parts of the world.

    (Organic Maps shows it correctly)

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      My point is, that you still call it the Gulf of Mexico and you don’t hear others around you calling it the Gulf of America. Most likely, people anywhere else than the USA, would be made fun of, if they called it that

      Let google be google. I am sure they are doing it just to be bootlickers and please Trump or at least not get in trouble with him

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        Yeah. I’m an American and I’m never going to call it that, ffs. No more than I can still get “Freedom Fries” at McDonald’s. (For you youngsters, look that term up from the early post 9/11 period and prepare to be stupified). It’s idiotic.

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          It was during the early Iraq invasion, 2 years after 9/11 when France had the balls to question evidence and support for Bush and Cheney’s war crimes.

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        Here in the US, I also would make fun of people for calling it “Gulf of America”. Its still the Gulf of Mexico.

        The only people I’ve heard talk about, have only ever been making fun of it (to help ease the pain we are in, and will continue to be under this presidency).

        Edit: Wtf phone? Hears tall? From heard talk? Eh, fixed.

        • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today
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          I wish that were the case. The hordes of smarmy, self-satisfied toad brains around me happily giggle and grin as they say gulf of america. Being in an area where you’re part of the minority of individuals able to look at more than a two month window of time before and after the present really sucks.

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            I get it. I’m in a blue state, in a blue town, surrounded by purple rural - plenty of maga muppets about in the surrounding area, but none I’ve interacted with that I’ve heard anything about the gulf.

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          I am sad to tell, but this will last for generations. This is not just Trump. This is the the result of people ellecting Trump and letting him do whatever he wants. The world is losing faith on the American people, not just its leaders. It is after all (still) a democracy.

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            Oh I’m well aware it will take generations to fix, as of now though this is the administration making things worse and the immediate concern.

            It is, unfortunately, not a democracy when the rule of law is ignored, which is the case right now.