Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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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!
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I also don't buy Crapple products either, but that's a personal choice.
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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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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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I'm aware. I've been there. Kinda hard to miss em.
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Grab em by the vespussi
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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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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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That rule existed in Portuguese as well, but they dropped that as indication of plurality is just... wasteful
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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
