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.

  • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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…?

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      1 day ago

      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.