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On August 28 2026 15:46 oBlade wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2026 08:11 Falling wrote:
Make him more mad and see how many things he renames to "America" at some point you will travel from City of America to City of America along street America to avenue America to the next street America to the next avenue America and no-one one will know where the hell they are.
Or just rename himself President America with Vice-President America at his side. Perhaps you could rename Lake Superior to Lake Canada.
Why would they do that? What'll actually happen is that the entire world, including most of the US, will ignore this executive order and keep calling it Lake Ontario. Just as the entire world, including Google Maps, still calls the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico.
The other thing that'll happen is that people will remember that the president of the US tried to make them call it something else for ridiculously spiteful reasons, and laugh in derision. Constantly reminding the rest of the world how spiteful and dumb the leader of your country is. Do you think people laughing at that increases or decreases the soft power of the US around the world?
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On August 28 2026 15:46 oBlade wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2026 08:11 Falling wrote:
Make him more mad and see how many things he renames to "America" at some point you will travel from City of America to City of America along street America to avenue America to the next street America to the next avenue America and no-one one will know where the hell they are.
Or just rename himself President America with Vice-President America at his side. Perhaps you could rename Lake Superior to Lake Canada.
They are not a bunch of clowns, so they won’t.
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On August 28 2026 16:04 Acrofales wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2026 15:46 oBlade wrote:On August 28 2026 08:11 Falling wrote:
Make him more mad and see how many things he renames to "America" at some point you will travel from City of America to City of America along street America to avenue America to the next street America to the next avenue America and no-one one will know where the hell they are.
Or just rename himself President America with Vice-President America at his side. Perhaps you could rename Lake Superior to Lake Canada. Why would they do that? What'll actually happen is that the entire world, including most of the US, will ignore this executive order and keep calling it Lake Ontario.
The joke is that you would name the "Superior" one Canada to prove you're even better.
They may certainly call it Lake Ontario but for psychological reasons a great deal of people can't ignore the EO or basically anything Trump does.
On August 28 2026 16:04 Acrofales wrote:
Just as the entire world, including Google Maps, still calls the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico.
Nobody who hears Mt. McKinley or Denali has any ambiguity or confusion what it is. Neither with Gulf of America and Gulf of Mexico. But Google Maps? So? Whence this appeal to corporatism?
There's an inferiority complex going around when you get mad what other countries call things. France doesn't call the English Channel Canal d'Angleterre, they call it la Manche. This is irrespective of whether the countries share a common language. Sure Gulf of Mexico didn't mean it belongs to Mexico. So there's nothing to be offended by Gulf of America. Ontario just means big pretty lake? And America just means the continent Canada and the US are in. Big deal. Not exactly Lake USA. Only issue with the naming is Lake Superior should be the one to be Lake America since it's literally the largest making it the continent's defining body of water.
On August 28 2026 16:04 Acrofales wrote:
The other thing that'll happen is that people will remember that the president of the US tried to make them call it something else for ridiculously spiteful reasons, and laugh in derision. Constantly reminding the rest of the world how spiteful and dumb the leader of your country is. Do you think people laughing at that increases or decreases the soft power of the US around the world?
I think American citizens should be concerned about people "laughing" or the perception of people laughing "in derision" at the US if they want America to win the middle school yearbook competition. That is, not at all.
Announcing the government is going to call Lake Ontario Lake America triggers people who are primed for triggering, and it now has Canada talking about a lake instead of policy (a familiar refrain), driving Carney supporters closer to supporting his policies off a cliff, which seems to be what Carney wants. He needs to keep a razor thin majority in elections in 3 seats next week and one of the seats is in Quebec so they announced the negotiations blew up due to random French language stuff to shore up support there.
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Northern Ireland27291 Posts
Oh give me a fucking break lmao
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On August 28 2026 21:01 WombaT wrote:
Oh give me a fucking break lmao
You know, I bet you've never heard of Lake Gichigami.
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Northern Ireland27291 Posts
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Canada should rename it to Lake Epstein Files so Republicans pretend they don't know what it is.
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On August 28 2026 21:23 LightSpectra wrote:
Canada should rename it to Lake Epstein Files so Republicans pretend they don't know what it is.
Apt. No matter how many thousands of fishing expeditions you take on it, you always manage to come up short.
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When you promise to release documents that would ostensibly prove your innocence and then, when in power, literally break the law to not release them, that's a fishing expedition? What kinda fucked up fish are you looking for?
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There is absolutely no question any more as to whether Donald Trump has the mental capacity to run a country.
He obviously doesn't.
Still, republicans will republican.
Was that a crayon he used in that Tiktok video to cross out Lake Ontario and write Lake America on that map?
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