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Good on you MapQuest!!! Yesterday, I learned that the threat to rename the Gulf of Mexico I heard about long ago, actually happened. A friend told me that it h
by ElijahLynn 17d ago
Good on you MapQuest!!!
Yesterday, I learned that the threat to rename the Gulf of Mexico I heard about long ago, actually happened. A friend told me that it happened, and I looked it up on Google Maps and sure enough, it was renamed. I was in disbelief, and literally had to see if this was a dream, so I tested my dream by trying to fly and couldn't fly and then I realized it was true, and not a dream. Dead serious.
I've been off news feeds for years now (soo much happier) and really am shocked such a stupid thing was done.
Then they told me that this idiot was trying to rename Lake Ontario too. I was like "that will never happen".
Now, today I hear here that the idiot actually did follow through with this threat to rename Lake Ontario. What a sad mental state of affairs for that individual.
- ElijahLynn 17d agoGood news I suppose is that since renaming things is being made common by this person then we should have very little resistance in renaming the things that were named after "them" and/or by them when they are gone.
- drcongo 17d agoBy the time I've finished saving up for a boat, I might get to sail it on Lake Trumpisanonce.
- marjancek 16d agoI'm not sure people actually understand why this is just sad. It is not that I am against a nationalist and populist renaming, it is that these renames have a clearly negative impact. They deny the identity of the local people who lived there before us (Ontario meaning "sparkling lake" in Iroquoian; Mexico being a Nahuatl expression). They undermine the diversity and richness of the names we use. Do we really want everything to be "of America"? That doesn't make America greater; it just makes it dumber, and boring.
- testing22321 16d agoThe rest of the world really should rename the USofA. Maybe every month it gets a new name based on a global vote. I bet the names would be great! Land of the orange. Home of the rapists.
- cindyllm 16d ago[dead]