• @[email protected]
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    1367 months ago

    This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It’s not it’s official name or international recognized name so wtf

      • @[email protected]
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        317 months ago

        To be clear, they’ve changed names in line with official government policy before, not just for Trump’s admin.

        • John Richard
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          -47 months ago

          Yeah but that makes too much sense for emotional & reactional people that don’t rely on logic

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            I get what you’re saying, but the renaming itself is entirely an act of emotion and reaction, with no trace of logic, too. It’s pretty much all we should expect to see from anyone for a while.

          • @[email protected]
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            They are a private organization with the right to say “lol that’s nice”, and leave it as the gulf of mexico. Executive orders direct government policy.

      • @[email protected]
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        117 months ago

        If something as ridiculous currys favor and infkuence with Trump the USA is truly coming to an end.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          It’s not coming to an end as in no longer existing, but it absolutely is as a world power. Maybe it will be for the better in the long run.

    • Steve Dice
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      The USA is now part of a list of “sensitive countries” with authoritarian states with their own version of reality. When users in one of the countries on this list visit Google sites, they see that government’s version of reality. This is nothing new. Google does it all the time with disputed territories. It’s only news because it’s the first time the US has an authoritarian government.

      Here’s how it looks when visiting from a Mexican device with the language set to Australian English while located in Hungary.

      1000019054

      Edit: undoxxed myself lol

    • @[email protected]
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      Distraction from:

      • closing down the Consumer Protection Agency, USAID, and the Education Agency
      • cutting off funding to the universities
      • stealing our student, treasury and health records while taking over the purse
      • not following federal judge’s orders
      • building an unregulated concentration camp in Cuba
      • etc.

      Edit: That’s why trump did it. All tech companies are in his hands now.

      • @[email protected]
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        No, there are no smokescreens. Trump is literally this stupid. Don’t attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to narcissism.

        • @[email protected]
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          77 months ago

          Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post this somewhere else:

          “The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

          So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

          “All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

          https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review

      • @[email protected]
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        47 months ago

        Oh that makes sense. Like when muskrat tried to get out of Twitter suis because the name changed.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      147 months ago

      pleasing the power, so they remove any law that protect our privacy against google prying eye

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      Then you must not be paying much attention, or have an understanding of how capitalism functions (nor of how and why it inevitably decays in to fascism).

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      I also find the word “America” too latino. wouldn’t it be better to change it with an English word?

    • Lør
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      17 months ago

      Ass kissing pure and simple. Kneel to the dictator level shit.