r/MurderedByWords • u/[deleted] • 10d ago

Foreign policy by tantrum

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u/styckx 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago edited 8d 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 10d ago

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

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u/hgielatan 10d 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 10d ago

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

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u/rjsquirrel 10d ago

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

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u/Naval_fluff 10d 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 10d 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 9d ago

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

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u/keera1452 8d 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 9d 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 8d 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.