• Konala Koala@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Would this be better if this got renamed to “New Mexico calls on Trump to change his name to ‘Epstein Traitor’ | CNN Politics”?

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    6 hours ago

    Sigh, of fucking course he did. Anyways, the capital of Ohio would love to change its name, but I’m sure if they tried he’d be ranting about keeping historical names for American places.

    Edit: there’s only one state that’s actually worth renaming and that’s Washington, solely because sharing a name with the country’s capital results in confusion more often than you’d like, and I swear to shit it better not be renamed to America.

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      10 hours ago

      I actually don’t have anything positive to say about America.

      I guess I can say it’s better than China and Russia for a big country. And it’s nice that it’s big and people can travel between so many states too, each with slightly different culture.

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        5 hours ago

        China is barely smaller than the US, and what you think is a unified Chinese language is actually a bunch of mutually unintelligible languages in a trench coat.

        The cultural differences between regions in the US are usually much smaller than ones in China.

        The most obvious examples of this are the regions of Xinjiang and Tibet.

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        9 hours ago

        Is it better? I mean, at least China makes a a crapload of stuff. What does America export besides entertainment and bombs?

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    8 hours ago

    Make every state add “of America” to its’ name and be done with it. Then we can move on to renaming every county, city, town, suburb, village, and burg.

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    13 hours ago

    we do not yet have a president. the guy claiming the title is a mob boss that stole it from us, feel free to ignore his specious edicts

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      Unfortunately you’ve all decided to let him actually run the country while you sit around waiting for your next opportunity to vote for a president, so we don’t actually have the luxury of ignoring his specious edicts because some of them do materially affect our lives.

      Signed, The Rest of The World

  • blinfabian@feddit.nl
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    11 hours ago

    vreaking: President Donald Trump will now be known as “President Donamerica America”

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    10 hours ago

    Well that’s not how names work. It’s “New Mexico” because it’s not Mexico of old, now is it, you dimwit, you absolute buffoon. If they had to change their name to anything “America”-related, they’d have to go with “Another Goddamn US State, Name Pending”.

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    18 hours ago

    While there at it rename New York, new jersey and every other place in america named after another place.

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      17 hours ago

      I propose we go back to calling New York by older names - let’s call the state New Netherland and the city New Amsterdam!

      Either that, or we create a new “American” language that purges all words derived from other, non English, languages… So most, if not all of our current words. I don’t know, maybe we just need to purge the non “white” words? What’s the current opinion on Spanish peoples, does Trump consider them “white”, would banana still be ok to use?