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2025-01-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Google Maps caves to Trump as it renames Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-28 10:58|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Was kind of partial to Gulf of Buc-cee's, but this is fine.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-28 13:17|| 2025-01-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Nice ring to it.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-28 14:06|| 2025-01-28 14:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, this is the Americas after all.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-28 14:23|| 2025-01-28 14:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Have you checked personally? I switched my VPN to a US server and still get Gulf of Mexico. Also the font is wrong.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-28 14:52|| 2025-01-28 14:52|| Front Page Top

#5 The change will be visible in the U.S. once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

will be - future tense. Rome wasn't renamed in a day.

Posted by SteveS 2025-01-28 15:04|| 2025-01-28 15:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Istanbul (not Constantinople)

Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-28 15:15|| 2025-01-28 15:15|| Front Page Top

#7 You guys threw a hissy fit when they renamed forts, schools, etc, that were originally built and named for us. Explain please, how this is different. In fact, if not intent.
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Posted by Confederate_General_Assoc 2025-01-28 15:41|| 2025-01-28 15:41|| Front Page Top

#8 ...oh, those pesky oaths of allegiance that were betrayed. I have problems with removing the line soldier statutes as they were basically fighting for their team/tribe [not much different than a fall Saturday college rivalry in allegiance]. They were exploited by their ruling class, something we can identify with for these last 20 years. Individually, I'm for keeping Bragg's name because he probably contributed more to the final Union victory than a bushel of Union generals through his incompetence and ego.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-28 16:14|| 2025-01-28 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 I would note as well, that it was pretty damn cynical of the swamp to name them so in the first place when they needed hundreds of thousands of white southern boys to go die and be maimed in Europe and Asia from Cuba through Vietnam for their goals.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-28 16:19|| 2025-01-28 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Breslau - Wroclaw

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-28 16:36|| 2025-01-28 16:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Filed, hating meself for thinking it, under "2000 lb. Bunker Buster of the Day." And I'm fine with the name ("We're norteamericanos too!" and all that).

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-01-28 21:31|| 2025-01-28 21:31|| Front Page Top

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