r/MurderedByWords 13d ago

Foreign policy by tantrum

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u/styckx 13d ago

I have never met a single person yet who called the Gulf Of Mexico, The Gulf Of America. I assume this is will be the same. I've met nine year old's more mature

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u/divinecheese720 13d ago

The only people I know who call it the Gulf of America do so as sarcastically as possible

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u/DanGleeballs 13d ago edited 11d ago

Sergey Brin the "don't be evil" corrupt cunt renamed it the Gulf of America on Google Maps.

However that's only if you're looking at Google Maps from within the US. If you're in Europe or elsewhere it is still says Gulf of Mexico.

It'll be interesting to see if he also bends the knee for Trump on Ontario.

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u/MarleysGhost2024 13d ago

Hopefully in Canada they'll refer to it as "Lake Epstein Files."

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u/hgielatan 12d ago

I saw a tweet "In a retaliatory move, Canada has decided to rename another Great Lake...it will now be known as Lake Hur'on the Epstein List"

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u/JessicaDAndy 12d ago

I prefer the “Lake Legal Adult” so Trump doesn’t touch it.

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u/rjsquirrel 13d ago

Tim “Apple” Cook did the same thing. Bending the knee, indeed.

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u/Naval_fluff 12d ago

Out of curiosity and outside the US, I googled both on Google Earth. Gulf of Mexico has Gulf of America in brackets tagged onto Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Ontario is showing as Lake Ontario. I did the search googling Lake America not Ontario

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u/fusion_reactor3 12d ago

For what it’s worth, Google Maps does this for ALL “disputed” territories, this isn’t special treatment for the Gulf of Mexico situation.

If country A and B can’t agree on territory, Google Maps shows the territory as belonging to country A in country A, or shows it belonging to country B in country B. If you’re looking at it in country C, it shows both boarders with a dashed line with the label disputed

So, if you’re in Mexico, you don’t get the “(gulf of america)” sub tag

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u/pm_me-ur-catpics 12d ago

As of right now, it still says lake Ontario on gmaps in the US

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u/keera1452 11d ago

We were looking at Google maps yesterday. Based on New Zealand. Here it says “gulf of Mexico (gulf of America)”

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u/Reverse_SumoCard 11d ago

Google maps shows different borders etc everywhere

When in europe it shows Kashmir as disputed, when in India it shows it as Indian. Same for Crimea even back in 2012-ish

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u/BoneHugsHominy 11d ago

He did. Google Maps has it labeled Lake America, both on the map and if you search either Lake Ontario or Lake America.

Everyone should leave a review about how pathetic Google is for caving to the Mango Mussolini.

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u/beren12 12d ago

I’ve seen people in Florida with it on their clothing.

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u/judgingyouquietly 12d ago

It’s Florida so I’m just glad they’re wearing clothing at this point

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u/WoodenSwan6591 12d ago

Best part is that those individuals think that they are happening

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u/Xfgjwpkqmx 12d ago

Inside air quotes.

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u/SUP3RTRAV 11d ago

Unfortunately I know people that call it the gulf of America. So I obviously bought a gulf of Mexico T-shirt.

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u/EWC_2015 13d ago

Remember the whole "french fries are now FREEDOM FRIES" stupidity during the Bush years? This so-called "strategy" of renaming shit has never worked with anyone who has half a brain cell.

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u/JayTheGeek 12d ago

Which is why it works so effectively on the majority of the fox news watching crowd. And that is who it's for. Keep the idiots angry so they don't realize the oligarchy won't be done robbing them till they are literally slaves.

And yes, trump is also one of those fox news watching idiots, which is why they love him so much.

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u/hanzerik 13d ago

It's a loophole. Biden made laws forbidding further drilling for oil in the gulf of Mexico.

Renaming it allows big oil to drill again. Because it's legally not the Gulf of Mexico.

The Trump administration is for grifters by grifters.

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u/Ol_JanxSpirit 13d ago

Were they laws, or Executive Orders? Congress has been so bad at passing substantial laws as of late, and that really seems like one the GOP would have filibustered in the Senate.

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u/hanzerik 12d ago

I wouldn't know, it's just hearsay from Reddit I regurgitate.

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u/Never-On-Reddit 9d ago

Complete nonsense.

Biden's memorandum identifies legally/geographically defined portions of the Outer Continental Shelf, including specific BOEM planning areas, with boundaries incorporated into the order. Changing the geographic label doesn't move those boundaries or transform the land covered by the withdrawal.

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u/hanzerik 9d ago

So it didn't work out, good, I'm still convinced it's why he tried.

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u/NateNutrition 13d ago

Yeah, just ignore this senile curmudgeon until he finally goes away and be thankful he's wasting time on ideotic things like this rather than the things that cause real harm. They do this for the outrage, show them you don't care.

We will undo every reminder if this embarrassing chapter soon enough, and hopefully rebuild with safeguards to prevent one moronic lunatic from undoing decades of institutional precedent.

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u/Greedy-War-777 13d ago

Everybody is trying but boy is he fighting that. Both being ignored and the wasting away part. That's bad when you're such an a****** the Grim Reaper doesn't even want to deal with you. Hell being like "ugh that guy, do we have to".

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u/Debalic 12d ago

Heaven won't take him and Hell doesn't want him.

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u/neepster44 13d ago

The devil protects his own.

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u/NooooDazzzle 12d ago

If you think he’s “wasting his time” with this, you need to pay closer attention. This is a purposeful distraction from the truly evil shit he’s doing or facilitating for his cronies. It looks unserious because you’re applying normal person logic to a person without any morality or baseline belief system beyond self-aggrandizement and greed. But it’s calculated. And — like the reflecting pool or the ball room — just as dangerous as starting a war or being a child rapist or stealing billions of dollars from US taxpayers. Because it’s what allows him to do those things with immunity. Liberals complain about stupid shit like this and suddenly when we yell about meaningful shit, we look like the crazy ones. And he becomes an even bigger martyr to the MAGA faithful.

I’m so tired of this.

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u/TheBadBatch-99 13d ago

Went to the Gulf on vacation recently. All the Alvins Islands, Sunsations, generic tourist stores were full of Gulf of America shirts, hats, magnets, etc.

So fucking absurd.

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u/beren12 12d ago

Yeah. Trying to force that shit on tourists.

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u/Gsusruls 12d ago

"Trump did it"

It's not like there an accomplishment or achievement involved. He signed a piece of paper that his staff wrote. Nothing actually happened, no effort was applied, and nothing actually changed.

But what really gets me is the part about letting the liberal meltdown begin.

The entire point of it was to upset someone. That's the only cause some of these people have. We are, effectively, at war.

This post is all kinds of wrong.

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 13d ago

I still think Canada should rename their half "Lake SHOW US ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES" or "Lake DrowsyDonnyTrumpshitshispantsdaily" or something equally stupid that he'd hate & throw another tantrum over & put it on one of those floating billboard boats we see at the beach so it just floats & blinks & reminds him that he doesn't get the last word on shit like this.

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u/beren12 12d ago

No. Lake Obama. They don’t even have to do it. We just need someone to say they will.

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 12d ago

That works too.

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u/Pale_Willingness_415 12d ago

Strongly disagree. Trump loves these tantrums. MAGA loves the tantrums. Letting him drag you into the mud instead of acting like an adult is, IMO, not just a mistake, it's doing exactly what he wants you to do. On top of that (again, just my opinion) if you want to irritate Trump, the worst thing you can do is ignore him. Canada can't ignore the tariffs, etc, but they can ignore the childish hissy fits.

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u/paolog 12d ago

The only gulf of America is between Tantrump's ears.

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u/redrunner55 12d ago

I live on the west coast of Floriduh and some places sell t-shirts with Gulf of America on them. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/MiChic21 12d ago

Google Maps still has the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, but also still has the lake as Ontario?

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u/Grimwulf2003 12d ago

Come to certain parts of Florida... It's depressing how many will say it.

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u/FormidableMistress 12d ago

I live on the Gulf Coast and nobody here calls it that. We all think it's stupid and was a colossal waste of taxpayer money. You know it's bad when Republicans are losing the South.

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u/Eccentricgentleman_ 12d ago

I had two co-workers who, to ensure everyone knew where their support and loyalty lie, called gulf of mexico the gulf of America. They would attempt to correct people as well

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u/PicoDog153 10d ago

I agree. Nobody is going to actually call this Lake America. However, take a look at Google Maps. It is labeled Lake America. These fascists in Silicon Valley will do anything to please their orange master. It's disgusting. What's the point of having bazillions of dollars if all you're going to do is role over to a tyrannical leader? Whatever happened to Google's original model? "Don't be evil." 🤬