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[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

'America' is becoming a slur.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I actually don't have anything positive to say about America.

I guess I can say it's better than China and Russia for a big country. And it's nice that it's big and people can travel between so many states too, each with slightly different culture.

[–] Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

China is barely smaller than the US, and what you think is a unified Chinese language is actually a bunch of mutually unintelligible languages in a trench coat.

The cultural differences between regions in the US are usually much smaller than ones in China.

The most obvious examples of this are the regions of Xinjiang and Tibet.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

I admit I don't know much about China, so thank you.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is it better? I mean, at least China makes a a crapload of stuff. What does America export besides entertainment and bombs?

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[–] SecretiveVault@lemmy.zip 53 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 225 points 3 days ago (6 children)

As a born and raised New Mexican, fuck this absolute piece of garbage, and fuck anyone who has voted or is continuing to vote for the convicted rapist and pedophile party. New Mexico is a culturally rich and diverse state, full of traditions going back hundreds, in some cases thousands, of years.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Y’all motherfuckers be… enchanting…

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[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (4 children)

There's dozens of us New Mexicans here! Dozens!

It's such a stupid idea because even people who voted for him have New Mexican pride and wouldn't agree with this change, it's simply stupid

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sigh, of fucking course he did. Anyways, the capital of Ohio would love to change its name, but I'm sure if they tried he'd be ranting about keeping historical names for American places.

Edit: there's only one state that's actually worth renaming and that's Washington, solely because sharing a name with the country's capital results in confusion more often than you'd like, and I swear to shit it better not be renamed to America.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Midterms in 14 days, everyone.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Saw a map earlier with Albuquerque renamed Charliequerque lol

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 38 points 2 days ago

I appreciate you sticking your neck out and posting this

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 93 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Gulf of America, lake America, new America? Just how uncreative is this motherfucker?

[–] SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Everything is about saying he named it. Dude wants to claim he created God.

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He only has room in his head for like 10 words at a time. That's why he thinks remembering 5 in cognitive tests is a huge victory. It takes half his brain! And the other half is "America" "golf" "China" and "besty Putin."

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Took him long enough

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 129 points 3 days ago (21 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 72 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Nobody has the stones to do anything about it

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Even Death is like "Nah, thanks"

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

we do not yet have a president. the guy claiming the title is a mob boss that stole it from us, feel free to ignore his specious edicts

[–] Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

After 3 elections people were still dumb enough to believe his lies.

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[–] fdnomad@programming.dev 98 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lets rename New Mexico to release the Epstein files instead

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wasn't this just an Onion article like a couple months ago, and now it's on Nottheonion?

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[–] Kenny4tunes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Whilst he's at it, changing Burger King to Burger Queen is also in need of consideration.

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Would this be better if this got renamed to "New Mexico calls on Trump to change his name to 'Epstein Traitor' | CNN Politics"?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 62 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Comically, New Mexico acquired its name long before "New Spain" became Mexico. Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).

Edit ended up reading the article, it is listed in the article further down as well "New Mexico’s name predates the founding of the United States back to the 16th century"

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).

...

New Mexico predates the modern country of Mexico, yes.

But when Spanish Conquistadors first reached the Valle de Mexico, in the 1520s, it was the most densely populated urban area on the planet at over a million people.

That's why New Mexico includes "new", because it wasn't the original.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago

There are no adults coming to save us. It won't even be that surprising if this ends up happening. Certainly not becausw it makes a shred of sense, just because this timeline is satire.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Were all the other empires throughout history this fucking retarded?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Eventually, yes.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"New America" doesn't even make sense. It is IN America, you dolt!

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

USA's patriots are from New-Englang btw.

[–] maxthemummer@lemmus.org 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Make every state add "of America" to its' name and be done with it. Then we can move on to renaming every county, city, town, suburb, village, and burg.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

South ~~Park~~ America got ahead of that.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What a lousy POS. I'm going to throw in the age old question, "Where are the damn Epstein Files?"

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[–] Fives@discuss.online 24 points 2 days ago

Dude will talk about ANYTHING except the Epstein files.

[–] sompreno@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

While there at it rename New York, new jersey and every other place in america named after another place.

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[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

vreaking: President Donald Trump will now be known as "President Donamerica America"

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[–] SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Trump is a freak. People who like him are weirdos. Enough said.

I cannot wait until this fucker is gone. The arrowhead of American failure was carved by people like Donald Trump.

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

United Scammers and Assholes

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

new epstein phelia.

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