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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago

Does trump get mad if we dead name it?

[-] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago
[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

Such a drama queen. Rules thee not for me.

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Whether you call it the Gulf of Mexico or America seems uncontroversial. I find removing the original name of Denali and returning to the imperial name of McKinley to be far more offensive.

As for this post, I guess removing the name Denali is akin to small penis energy. So your version of the gulf is fitting.

[-] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Renaming it excludes it from existing legal language, like the Gulf of Mexico protection and restoration act. It SHOULD be controversial, but everywhere I look I see people joking about it as if there's no real-world repercussions. https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22committee-materials%22%2C%22search%22%3A%22Gulf+of+Mexico%22%7D

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I can't see how a name change would legally affect documents in that way. It's not like other countries are calling it the new name. And if we tried to play it that way our country would lose all integrity, credibility, and trust on the global scale for at least the next four years. However, I have seen name changes as a way to hide PR issues, particularly among small companies.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago
[-] tastetheplague@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I didn't need this reference.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago
[-] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a reference to an ancient shock internet website called goatse.cx - it pictured a significantly dilated anus.

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That was such a risky click...

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You thought it might be worse than advertised?

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Most of those shock sites are gone or have been replaced so my expectations have shifted. The risk was that I WOULD get what was advertised.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I know, duh

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We'll accept 'Gulf of America' in Australia if you accept our extents on the Southern Ocean and stop calling the open ocean at the bottom of Australia part of the Indian Ocean.

Deal?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No deal, both because you accepting the "Gulf of America" nonsense is bad and also because the Antarctic Circumpolar Current doesn't get anywhere near the coast of Australia.

[-] conc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

You know it's legit by the way the fingers glisten

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