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Trump Suggests Renaming the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean Next After Changing Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico on U.S. Maps
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Mrsilkworm piefed.social mrsilkworm@piefed.social
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CombatWombat feddit.online CombatWombat@feddit.online
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#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

This ongoing obsession of his is a huge W for the "America is the continent, not the country" folks. By the time we're through with all this, no-one is gonna want to use the name America for anything. America? I don't know her; I live in the EU (los estados unidos) thank you.

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undefined lemmy.hogru.ch undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
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#3 · Quote Reply

This ongoing obsession of his is a huge W for the "America is the continent, not the country" folks. By the time we're through with all this, no-one is gonna want to use the name America for anything. America? I don't know her; I live in the EU (los estados unidos) thank you.

In Spanish Estados Unidos is abbreviated EE.UU.

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CombatWombat feddit.online CombatWombat@feddit.online
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#4 · Quote Reply

In Spanish Estados Unidos is abbreviated EE.UU.
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undefined lemmy.hogru.ch undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
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#5 · Quote Reply

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Well you write Estados Unidos which is Spanish but put EU and unnecessarily explain what it stands for instead of just abbreviating it correctly in the first place (or not at all)

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TropicalDingdong lemmy.world TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

Its just not how languages work.

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lokalhorst feddit.org lokalhorst@feddit.org
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#7 · Quote Reply

If a German ever tries to explain the meaning of the word Fremdscham to you, this is it.

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Multiplexer discuss.tchncs.de Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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#8 · Quote Reply

Funnily, all uses of "America" for the whole continent (including the north) are misinterpretations of the original map drawn by Mr Waldseemüller, who invented the name "America" in the first and used it for Brazil.

On the same map some designation for the northern part of the continent can also be found, stating that it was a province discovered by the command of the king of Castille:

So, the only logical step will be to name North-America as "New Castille" from now on, to correct for the screw-up of the post-Waldseemüller map-reading-noobs.

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betterdeadthanreddit lemmy.world betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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#9 · Quote Reply

We were so close to not having to deal with his bullshit a second time but nobody wants to put in the range time to do it right.

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Varesti lemmy.zip Varesti@lemmy.zip
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#10 · Quote Reply

Dude is so dumb, at least we can change them back later.

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betterdeadthanreddit lemmy.world betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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#11 · Quote Reply

Dude is so dumb, at least we can change them back later.

It'll be like cleaning up after a 4-year-long bender. Probably find puke in just as many weird places too.

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Almacca aussie.zone Almacca@aussie.zone
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#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

I propose that all the other countries in the world rename USA The United Mistakes of America, or maybe just Dumbfuckland.

Edit: Dumbfuckistan is even better.

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huppakee lemmy.world huppakee@lemmy.world
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#13 · Quote Reply

Pacific could be renamed to Ocean of the Warmongering Pedofile.

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huppakee lemmy.world huppakee@lemmy.world
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#14 · Quote Reply

Funnily, all uses of "America" for the whole continent (including the north) are misinterpretations of the original map drawn by Mr Waldseemüller, who invented the name "America" in the first and used it for Brazil. On the same map some designation for the northern part of the continent can also be found, stating that it was a province discovered by the command of the king of Castille: So, the ...

I used to do this for almost my entire life. The orange todler made clean up my act and say US and people of the US instead of America and Americans.

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ExLisper lemmy.curiana.net ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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#15 · Quote Reply

Soon he will rename the whole continent to just "America".

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weps lemmy.world weps@lemmy.world
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#16 · Quote Reply

The USA has given "America" a negative connotation

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blattrules lemmy.world blattrules@lemmy.world
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#17 · Quote Reply

Maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both

Oh good, we’ll have two “American Oceans” because he’s too fucking stupid and patronizing to think of another name.

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Obituarykidney lemmy.world Obituarykidney@lemmy.world
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#18 · Quote Reply

The USA has given "America" a negative connotation

Yeah but you already know people from the USA don't consider the rest of the Americas "America"

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B1naryB0t lemmy.dbzer0.com B1naryB0t@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#19 · Quote Reply

Soon he will rename the whole continent to just "America".

America of America

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moondoggie lemmy.world moondoggie@lemmy.world
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#20 · Quote Reply

I would like to petition Canada to rename Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein.

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Atherel lemmy.dbzer0.com Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#21 · Quote Reply

Maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both Oh good, we’ll have two “American Oceans” because he’s too fucking stupid and patronizing to think of another name.

"Left Ocean of America" and "Right Ocean of America"

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TheVoiceOfRaison thelemmy.club TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club
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#22 · (edited) Quote Reply

Does he realise America is a continent? The United States OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. USA isn't exclusive to the 50 states it is compromised of. There are 35 counties on the American continent.

Sorry for saying continent so much.

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harmony piefed.blahaj.zone harmony@piefed.blahaj.zone
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#23 · Quote Reply

Does he realise America is a continent? The United States OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. USA isn't exclusive to the 50 states it is compromised of. There are 35 counties on the American continent. Sorry for saying continent so much.

He wouldn't understand. He's incontinent.

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foggy lemmy.world foggy@lemmy.world
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#24 · Quote Reply

He wouldn't understand. He's incontinent.

which continent? 💩

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GreatWhiteBuffalo41 slrpnk.net greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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#25 · Quote Reply

Does he realise America is a continent? The United States OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. USA isn't exclusive to the 50 states it is compromised of. There are 35 counties on the American continent. Sorry for saying continent so much.

No. That would require him to understand things.

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GreatWhiteBuffalo41 slrpnk.net greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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#26 · Quote Reply

We were so close to not having to deal with his bullshit a second time but nobody wants to put in the range time to do it right.

Omg I just laughed so hard, thank you. I needed that.

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msantossilva sh.itjust.works msantossilva@sh.itjust.works
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#27 · (edited) Quote Reply

I propose that all the other countries in the world rename USA The United Mistakes of America, or maybe just Dumbfuckland. Edit: Dumbfuckistan is even better.

In my neck of the woods, some people call it 'The Land of the Idiot' (in english and all)

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madmantis24 lemmy.wtf madmantis24@lemmy.wtf
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#28 · Quote Reply

"Left Ocean of America" and "Right Ocean of America"

Can't let The (Radical, loony, woke) Left have an entire ocean, though! Rename it to "Port"

/S

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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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#29 · Quote Reply

Let me guess...big stretch here..."The American Ocean" and "The Freedom Ocean"?

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yetAnotherUser discuss.tchncs.de yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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#30 · Quote Reply

Who cares? Just rename everything to "American XYZ".

Genuinely, please stop enabling this shit by posting headline after headline of Trump doing Trump-things to stay in the news.

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bajabound lemmy.world bajabound@lemmy.world
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#31 · Quote Reply

Does he realise America is a continent? The United States OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. USA isn't exclusive to the 50 states it is compromised of. There are 35 counties on the American continent. Sorry for saying continent so much.

I think he's working on that.

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gravitas_deficiency sh.itjust.works gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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#32 · Quote Reply

If a German ever tries to explain the meaning of the word Fremdscham to you, this is it.

Oh, yep, that’s a good one; I’ll be using that in the future

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glasratz feddit.org glasratz@feddit.org
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#33 · Quote Reply

If a German ever tries to explain the meaning of the word Fremdscham to you, this is it.

Fremdscham has been kicked to death by cringe.

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PanGodofPanic lemmy.blahaj.zone PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#34 · Quote Reply

In Spanish Estados Unidos is abbreviated EE.UU.

Double the letters, double the gooder

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dogdeanafternoon lemmy.ca dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca
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#35 · Quote Reply

Yeah but you already know people from the USA don't consider the rest of the Americas "America"

People from Canada don’t either. I don’t know anyone that would call themselves an American.

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wangaBanga feddit.online wangaBanga@feddit.online
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#36 · Quote Reply

Who cares? Just rename everything to "American XYZ". Genuinely, please stop enabling this shit by posting headline after headline of Trump doing Trump-things to stay in the news.

Exactly. A toddler with a loaded diaper will smear shit all over the wall if left to its own devices. We get it!

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III lemmy.world III@lemmy.world
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#37 · Quote Reply

I would like to petition Canada to rename Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein.

Who can we get to rename something to Mar-a-rapes-children?

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mojo_raisin lemmy.world mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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#38 · Quote Reply

Canada should rename the US Baja Canada.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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#39 · Quote Reply

Test results are in, you are HIV America.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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#40 · Quote Reply

Funnily, all uses of "America" for the whole continent (including the north) are misinterpretations of the original map drawn by Mr Waldseemüller, who invented the name "America" in the first and used it for Brazil. On the same map some designation for the northern part of the continent can also be found, stating that it was a province discovered by the command of the king of Castille: So, the ...

Does he know America was named after and Eye-talian?

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YiddishMcSquidish lemmy.today YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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#41 · Quote Reply

Test results are in, you are HIV America.

:-D

D-:

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DarkFuture lemmy.world DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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#42 · Quote Reply

"My legacy as a pedo failure is cemented. The only thing I can do to change that historically is land expansion. I'm too stupid and inept to actually do that, so I'll just change the names on maps in my own country."

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gandalf_der_13te feddit.org gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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#43 · Quote Reply

hahahaha

wait you're serious. let me laugh even harder

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gandalf_der_13te feddit.org gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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#44 · Quote Reply

Who cares? Just rename everything to "American XYZ". Genuinely, please stop enabling this shit by posting headline after headline of Trump doing Trump-things to stay in the news.

Atlantic Ocean of America

Pacific Ocean of America

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DarkFuture lemmy.world DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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#45 · (edited) Quote Reply

Does he realise America is a continent? The United States OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. USA isn't exclusive to the 50 states it is compromised of. There are 35 counties on the American continent. Sorry for saying continent so much.

The guy gets mad at windmills. I don't think there's a lot of geographical trivia going on upstairs.

If it isn't a child, I don't think he focuses too much on it.

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DarkFuture lemmy.world DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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#46 · Quote Reply

We were so close to not having to deal with his bullshit a second time but nobody wants to put in the range time to do it right.

We got the right marksman, but the wrong target.

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DarkFuture lemmy.world DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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#47 · Quote Reply

Dude is so dumb, at least we can change them back later.

The next Dem president should just appoint a Secretary of Unfuckery whose sole job is to write up EOs to undo everything Trump did and present them to the Dem pres for signing at the end of each day.

There's going to be so much we can't have the Dem pres focusing on that or it'll take up all their time.

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DarkFuture lemmy.world DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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#48 · Quote Reply

I honestly can't hear the word "idiot" or "moron" now without thinking about Trump.

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Hogrider lemmy.world OleFoFa@lemmy.world
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#49 · Quote Reply

Does he realise America is a continent? The United States OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. USA isn't exclusive to the 50 states it is compromised of. There are 35 counties on the American continent. Sorry for saying continent so much.

Why would he understand how continents work when he's apparently pretty damned incontinent himself (in addition to being incompetent)?. The US people elected him twice. Never forget, never forgive.

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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#50 · Quote Reply

At this point I'm just mildly shocked he doesn't name it after himself

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ayyy sh.itjust.works ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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#51 · Quote Reply

Does he realise America is a continent? The United States OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. USA isn't exclusive to the 50 states it is compromised of. There are 35 counties on the American continent. Sorry for saying continent so much.

Sorry for saying continent so much.

Well, it’s better than being incontinent.

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