Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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It is labeled Gulf of Mexico in Mexico and the name doesn't mean they own it. This is almost as ridiculous as calling it Gulf of America in the first place
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Maybe this is the thing that finally unites the cartels.
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I'd like to say I did that on purpose to show how dumb they'd be renaming it, but it is I who can't remember my East and West
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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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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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I assumed it was the second one, but the first one there also sounds plausible.
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Hey! What did I ever do to you?
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Yes, Mexico. Attack them with your air force.
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Are you going to chip in for my air fare?
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Are you seriously suggesting nothing whatsoever would happen if Google just didn't update their maps to the new name?
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I stopped using everything Google. Fascist collaborators won't get a dime of my money, won't get my eyeballs on any of their ads, and won't get a single kilobyte of data from me to sell for profit.
I'll keep my gmail account open because all it really does is accumulate spam which probably costs them money.
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But the US isn't the one calling the shots.
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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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Don't sue- just threaten to block some of googles services in your country and they'll come around real quick. Hit em where it hurts. Google isn't hurting for lawyers.
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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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Whenever I see Gulf of America mentioned, in my head it sounds like "This is America" in the Childish Gambino song.
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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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It's the very first piece of getting their violent base behind imperialism
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So it's the gulf of Germany. Got it. Ü
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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!
