This is the map of the Gulf of Mexico as seen from outside the US on Google Maps.
Google said it would foist the Gulf of America idiocy only on its US users, but apparently the temptation to flatter His Orangeness was too much, so the rest of the world gets to enjoy it too.
I figured I’d rename it too. I mean why not after all: it seems any idiot can make up geography now.
They’re probably doing it because they know that if they don’t do it for everyone, at least partially, they’ll get punished by the angry cheeto.
Not partially anymore. I just checked my maps and it’s now just the Gulf of America. Where did the constitution give the President that ability again?
That’s just for Americans. They get to see only the orange propaganda name. Mexico gets to see only the regular name, probably because Google figures Mexico is really salty about the stupid renaming, and the rest of the world sees both name because imperialism.
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I rllllllllllly don’t understand this whole thing, well I do know it’s pandering to crazies, but isn’t America the two continents? Isn’t calling the US america just an incorrect shortening of the United Sta…?
I don’t have anything against renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, the Gulf of Cuba, the Gulf of Michael Jackson or anything really… provided that 1/ there’s some sort of desire for a new name, 2/ it makes more sense and 3/ everybody in the region agrees.
Trump’s Gulf of America doesn’t meet any of those criteria: nobody asked for this, it makes no more sense to attribute the name of this gulf to any one of the countries bordering it than to Mexico (and it doesn’t concern the whole of the American continent) and nobody agrees to do this.
Trump’s Golf of America is strictly a low-effort attempt by Trump to pander to his racist magaque base. And of course, the tech monopolies like Google just ro-ro with that because money.
continents are a made up idea
