Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates
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Fearful, or in agreement with?
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Google, or rather Alphabet, is an American company. Trump is the president of America, the most powerful country militarily and economically. Alphabet is also subject to American laws and is currently under an anti-trust lawsuit with America. What makes you think Google can stand up against the US?
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The only thing they care about is money. If their bottomline doesn't benefit, they don't do.
Unless the CEOs are worried they'll have a Trump supporter shoot them dead and then be immediately pardoned and released by Trump.
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fair enough. i guess the usa never did a great job ar limiting their presidents power. that way he can extend his reach way further down, than he should...
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The Left: its called an Allow List now, you racists!
The Right: its called the Gulf of America, you commies!Jesus, we're pathetic.
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I'm trying to work out who this is for. Presumably his fan club will approve, but I don't think it was something that even they were particularly asking for.
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Nobody calls it that though. No one who is actually left-wing thought that calling them blacklist / white list was offensive.
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They're not required to change it. All the law does is officially change the name for official government purposes it doesn't require everyone in the US to start calling it that.
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Yes but thry changed their own name, not the name of some other bit of the world that isn't anything to do with them.
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If only does it with his remaining term is just randomly rename stuff, I think we will consider ourselves to have gotten off lightly.
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why would that be Google's concern
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There is absolutely nothing that is too stupid for republicans.
It's the US had an actually functional political system they wouldn't get anywhere near power. They're all crazy and they don't care about anything that actually matters to people. But because there's only two parties they just go "biden bad" and everyone votes for them.
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One is propaganda made up by right wing nerds and one is the president of fucking america if you didnt catch how silly you were being right now
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Is this another of those things where someone wrote some mild Substack post about “maybe the phrase black list does imply black = bad” that maybe five people read before conservatives decided that it represents the ideological position of all leftists?
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Türkiye had historical usage and precedent; “the Gulf of America” does not. Admittedly, Erdoğa was probably motivated by the same base nativist urges. There’s also something substantially different in saying “we want our nation to be called this” versus “we want to rename international territory.”
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Reminds me a lot of after 9/11 when they tried to change French Fries to Freedom fries. That stuck about as well as water on teflon.
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Now US can start claiming islands just like China does with the South Sea
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Sorry, unable to find it now either and my memory fails me. There's a chronically mislabeled place near where I live, but I don't want to doxx myself. So, please have this vaguely related fun story instead: https://www.thesun.ie/news/14465782/ghost-aldi-supermarket-tourists-lorry
