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Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

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    The leading theory over this seems to be they're trying to invalidate a bunch of international/national agreements about the gulf of Mexico because now "that doesn't exist", or is not about this gulf that has a different name so definitely not the one from agreement. And of course there's also things about doing everything at once and getting people distracted by these while sneaking in harmful policies.

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    It's the very first piece of getting their violent base behind imperialism

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      The word "America" is not reserved for the USA alone and belongs to the entire Americas: North America, Central America, South America. As such if they want to rename the Gulf of Mexico then it should be the Gulf of North America of which both the USA and Mexico are a part of and share borders around that body of water.

      Furthermore the word "America" isn't an English word but the German bastardization of an Italian word. Specifically the word "America" was coined by Martin Waldseemüller a German cartographer who named the Americas after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci who explored the new continents for Spain and Portugal.

      Amerigo Vespucci - History Cartoon ~ Innovative History ~ YouTube.

      So if this is the big orange blow-fish's attempt to dis on Mexico then it's pretty petty much like everything he does to massage his massive ego.

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      So it's the gulf of Germany. Got it. Ü

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        So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.

        Is Symbian still good these days?

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        Haha, seeing you being downvoted for pointing a fact, tell me everything about the people frequenting this sub.

        Obviously apple can't be fascist, because Tim Apple is gay!

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          So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.

          Is Symbian still good these days?

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          I also don't buy Crapple products either, but that's a personal choice.

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            Less threatening... More doing.

            The U.S. dictatorship are just doing and they're slowly tearing apart OUR planet.

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            Bro, are you ok? "US dictayorship"? Trump was elected by the majority of Americans. How is Trump destroying YOUR planet? By changing the name of the gulf? Is this the biggest problem "your" planet has?

            Fukin soypeople...

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              I can see Google (and Apple) quietly paying this fine and changing it for Mexico (and any other jurisdiction that asks).

              This is stupid and cowardly of them, but that aside, the implication is 100% “comply, or the US government will make life difficult for Google.” I can see how they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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              Since when is the big tech the arbiter of truth? It might come as a surprise to you, but Google and Apple don't care about your holy war against Trump.

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                There are 3200 active wells in the Gulf of Mexico.

                www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/gulf-data-atlas/atlas.htm?plate=Offshore Structures#:~:text=Since the first offshore drilling,of Mexico's Outer Continental Shelf

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                I'm aware. I've been there. Kinda hard to miss em.

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                  The word "America" is not reserved for the USA alone and belongs to the entire Americas: North America, Central America, South America. As such if they want to rename the Gulf of Mexico then it should be the Gulf of North America of which both the USA and Mexico are a part of and share borders around that body of water.

                  Furthermore the word "America" isn't an English word but the German bastardization of an Italian word. Specifically the word "America" was coined by Martin Waldseemüller a German cartographer who named the Americas after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci who explored the new continents for Spain and Portugal.

                  Amerigo Vespucci - History Cartoon ~ Innovative History ~ YouTube.

                  So if this is the big orange blow-fish's attempt to dis on Mexico then it's pretty petty much like everything he does to massage his massive ego.

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                  Grab em by the vespussi

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                    I'm in tijuana about 10 miles south of the border and it shows as Gulf of America

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                    You're probably connected to a US access point or have cached map data.

                    https://blog.google/products/maps/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025/

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                      You're probably connected to a US access point or have cached map data.

                      https://blog.google/products/maps/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025/

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                      Maybe. I'm on wifi provided by a Mexican telecom. It's probably my US sim. The comment i replied to said "it shows as this in mexico" and my point was, no, not for everyone. I'm not interested enough to try to nail down the exact reason.

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                        Bro, are you ok? "US dictayorship"? Trump was elected by the majority of Americans. How is Trump destroying YOUR planet? By changing the name of the gulf? Is this the biggest problem "your" planet has?

                        Fukin soypeople...

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                        Oh yeah, I forgot. Implying people enjoy soy is an insult. Ouch! My feelings.

                        I never said Dictayorship. Because that's terrible spelling of the only word you needed to spell correctly to actually criticise me. I also never linked the mislabeling of the Gulf as destroying the planet. He is though...

                        He proclaimed that he will "OWN" Gaza through means of literal ethnic cleansing. He's conspiring with Putin to help finalise his invasion of eastern Ukraine. He's currently purging the Government of minorities and people he deems unloyal. Elon Musk is infiltrating and tearing up government departments as an unelected right-hand entity. His right-wing army are, by algorithm, shifting the western world easily into fascism. I could go on but I'm done with you.

                        Bottom line... pay attention.

                        Also... the fact that you put forward Trump was elected by majority of Americans is a straight out lie. Grow up.

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                          TIL…

                          The abbreviation E.E.U.U. (often written as EE. UU.) stands for Estados Unidos (United States) in Spanish. This abbreviation follows a grammatical rule in Spanish where doubling the initial letters of each word indicates plurality

                          So you taught me something today I did not know. Thank you!!

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                          That rule existed in Portuguese as well, but they dropped that as indication of plurality is just... wasteful

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                            I hope they're so screwed over and see no real progress come next election because many are being affected, that's for sure. They'll reap the shittier half of what they sowed.

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                            Thing is, the next MAGA/QAnon nutter will just tell people that it's the lib's fault and they will eat it up and vote for the next unhinged, cleptocratic sociopath. Or maybe by then the US will have gone full Russia and just openly manipulate the elections

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                              So it's the gulf of Germany. Got it. Ü

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                              VW Golf.

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                                TIL…

                                The abbreviation E.E.U.U. (often written as EE. UU.) stands for Estados Unidos (United States) in Spanish. This abbreviation follows a grammatical rule in Spanish where doubling the initial letters of each word indicates plurality

                                So you taught me something today I did not know. Thank you!!

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                                Wait what do they call the European Union then because that's still EU in Spanish as well.

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                                  Bro, are you ok? "US dictayorship"? Trump was elected by the majority of Americans. How is Trump destroying YOUR planet? By changing the name of the gulf? Is this the biggest problem "your" planet has?

                                  Fukin soypeople...

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                                  He literally said he would be a dictator if elected.

                                  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/donald-trump-sean-hannity-dictator-day-one-response-iowa-town-hall

                                  Maybe pay attention rather than hurl silly insults.

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                                    So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.

                                    Is Symbian still good these days?

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                                    If anyone is still buying Apple products after the whole slowing phones down the thing and the soldered ram thing and that you can't fix your own phone thing and the oh you can fix your phone if you use our equipment except our equipment is really expensive and actually you can't get it thing, then there's something wrong with you.

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                                      Haha, seeing you being downvoted for pointing a fact, tell me everything about the people frequenting this sub.

                                      Obviously apple can't be fascist, because Tim Apple is gay!

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                                      Except no one said that you idiot.

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                                        It was changed by executive order, which the president has the authority to do. Google doesn't get to go "nuh-uh" and keep it the same.

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                                        Executive orders are not laws. You do know that, right?

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                                          If you want to know more about how the US government works, I'm not the person to educate you.

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                                          Clearly, since you think an executive order is a law.

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