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Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[+] -9 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I wouldn't call this an instance of that. Trump as far as I understand stupidly but legally changed the name.

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  • [–] 17 points 20 hours ago*

    He didn't follow any official legal process. He basically just released a proclamation, just like a King would do. He's getting away with it because the other branches of government let him.

    The President, as the leader of the Executive Branch, has wide latitude over what Federal Agencies do. It's possible (but not a 100% certainty) that his Executive Order might bind Federal Agencies under his control, but certainly not the rest of us -- not without legislation that goes through the normal process. It certainly doesn't compel Google to do it. Now, Google may want to do it because they understand it can build political capital with such a small man, but that's a different issue.

    He's done this before too. It's still officially the "Department of Defense", no matter how many times he calls it the "Department of War", until Congress sends him a bill stating otherwise. Same with the Kennedy Center. He is doing shit like this, with no legal basis, on purpose, to find out who is "loyal" to him.

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  • [–] 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    How can renaming another nations stuff be legal?

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  • [–] 7 points 21 hours ago

    I mean, you can only enforce it in your own jurisdiction, right?

    Your country can decide to call Sweden Poop-land, your own localized maps will label it Poop-land, but on swedish maps it will still be called Sverige.

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago (1 child)

    It isn't...

    It's shared between the US and Canada, it could just as well be named Lake New York.

    From Wikipedia:

    Ontario is likely derived from the Iroquoian word Kaniatarí:io or Oniatarí:io meaning "lake of shining waters" or "beautiful lake".

    So it's a better name for sure, at least keeping the memory of the natives colonized and cleansed by the French to make Canada... But it's not like naming a lake in memory of people you erased erases the crimes...

    This is such a stupid thing to spend any energy being upset over, just roll your eyes and call it wherever you want.

    The empire is collapsing (thank fuck) and its citizens are upset about the name of a lake instead of revolting because they're ruled by an ultra rich pedophile class.

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  • [–] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Well I legally rename the US pedonazis land. And you will be little-asslicker-1.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago* (1 child)

    I genuinely don't understand this comment... How am I an asskisser for pointing out the pedo Nazis are trying to distract you with trivial shit like the name of a lake?

    Yes, please refer to the US as pedonazi land, and Israel pedonazi haven, I fully endorse that! Call them what they are, I always do.

    It doesn't matter what the pedonazis say, no one seriously calls the gulf of Mexico by any other name... You need to redirect your anger at what matters, your taxes are used to commit genocides and enrich Nazi pedophiles, don't waste your anger on a stupid distraction like this one.

    Edit: oh, you're just calling me a name to make me upset at calling me a name, I thought you actually had a point. Lol you can call me little fucker who licks his mom's dirty asshole for all I care... I'm not gonna be upset at such trivial nonsense.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (1 child)

    A government controlling information, renaming things and changing history is not trivial, it's literally the plot of 1984.

    And if you dont see how the most powerful corporations in the world being complicit in all of this is a huge problem, well good luck....

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 child)

    You're right. This is what we should be all consumed with, this is what we should be upset about.

    Not the billionaire pedophile child sex trafficking ruling class that bombs children and calls them terrorists instead of giving you healthcare, that's trivial. What you should be upset about is the same government openly "renaming" a lake in the course of a trade war with their neighboring country.

    First of all, your priorities are stupid. Second of all, no, it's literally not the plot of 1984. He never claimed "it was always lake America", he just used the existing legal processes to rename it. It's stupid, it's perfectly legal, and it doesn't change a single fucking thing about your life.

    Biden repeatedly lying about seeing beheaded children and spreading lies while having reporters dragged out of the press room for asking questions about him bypassing Congress to send billions in weapons to continue an active genocide is analogous to 1984. Trump raping and murdering kids and bombing Iranian school children while telling you you should be upset about trivial shit is analogous to 1984.

    If you read 1984 instead of just repeating that everything is 1984, you'd quickly realize what the renaming of a lake is analogous to: the lottery, pornography, alcohol, razor blade shortage, etc. there are plenty of distractions by the party that are meant to consume and emotionally absorb people so they don't discuss actual problems, so they don't organize, so they don't change anything.

    Good luck.

    Edit: flock cameras are LITERALLY 1984. But you're right, we should be upset he changed what the US government calls a lake. I'm sure you spend countless hours of your life thinking about the names of lakes, what they used to be, or how many names they've had over recorded history. I'm sure every time a lake was renamed it was literally 1984 and rewriting history.

    You know what was renamed to erase history? Palestine. They collected money from Americans to import European trees to literally hide over 500 destroyed villages and literally changed history books to say it was always Israel. Be upset about that, be upset that you're still paying money for that.

    Lake Ontario/lake America doesn't affect your life one fucking bit.

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