my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
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The Atlantic
Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico may be upsetting to some, writes @giladedelman.bsky.social, but “in a democracy, values are determined by majority rule, and they don’t shift in only one direction. They can shift back”:
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Fits the guy who’s administrating bupkis
However, in the media and general public the term is used differently now.
Please!
The rest of the world barely has a footnote about a change.
https://bsky.app/profile/scaredy.fish/post/3li664366z223
Intersex people exist, trans people exist.
Any obsession with sexual binary is a result of mentally ill religious ideology coming from a Bible sky daddy.
Do you feel the same way, the other way?
Lots of lefties were silent when their choice to use plastic straws was taken from them
"Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well as the population at large to the acceptance evil as such."
📌
I know… I’m still working on readjusting my expectations for the idiocracy.
argumentum ad populum is no basis for a moral foundation.
Much of what he’s doing is just repulsive.
Didn't enjoy your psychopathology classes?
Didn't do any studying of malignant narcissism?
Don't understand this started in 2000 ..?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-doge-neo-apartheid/
It was always considered a pipe dream.
That turned out to not be true.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/
This is NOT just capitalism.
It is, was and always shall be the GULF OF MEXICO.
This is part of the "Newspeak Threat", so to speak. It's part of training people to believe that words mean what the Trumpistas want them to mean, and what they want them to mean is what they mean right now and not five minutes ago.
How it appears - on Google - from the UK.
It’s never just a name, it’s 4D Chess. What looks like an inch is actually mass extinction for profit.
They should just change their motto to "No, not like that".
What if he rename the United States of America to the New Gildead Age of America?
This is his way to work around the constitution.
If you reject the Boss' ridiculous declaration, you're an enemy and must be attacked.
If you comply, you're an ally and/or someone who can be exploited.
#bendingtheknee
If we fight everything they throw at us we’re gonna be too exhausted to fight the battles that really matter.
Those who think "Gulf of America" isn't disrespectful, then allow us to change YOUR name. Do you like that idea now?
I can see foreigners being triggered, but a conga-line of American Libs going crazy is just wrong.
Dems are melting-down over it.
In fact that is all dems ever do, have a hissy fit and vent.
No platform or viable candidates.
Harris didn't even get voter authorization in primaries or face even one Dem challenger.
Did Dems stop RFK Jr?
"Look at ,me"!
"Free Gaza!:"
Trans rights are the wrong fight to pick.
Gay rights are the wrong fight to pick.
Non-white rights are the wrong fight to pick.
Women's rights are the wrong fight to pick.
White men's rights is the right fight to pick.
should be replaced with
"Don't cede an inch"
Fox News: “Democrats are in denial. DOGE is very transparent. The Democrats are driving young people into the arms of the Republicans by being so crazy.”
"We're not complying, we're staying in the tent & waiting for him to fail so we'll be there to pick up the pieces—it's just coincidence that it looks like self-interest, honest"
Why did trump pick a fight with Canada?
It's not even checkers
Somebody should tell trump Trudeau isn't the Prime Minister in a few months.
i think changing the name of Denali back to McKinley is dumb but DGAF but to rename int'l bodies of water is childish.
You don't need to tell others, just...know where your line is. Then check, later, to see if you've 'drifted past' it.
i am surprised he didnt write it with a sharpie
There is no mandate .
Just a Felon who believes he has power to do anything .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ApjSrB6E1c
Too easily complying with fascism and the erosion of reality.
2+2=4 and Gulf of Mexico is a test and they failed it with flying colors.
—Robert Musil, Austrian writer, Berlin, March 1933
"All members of the press must wear MAGA hats, kneel down and kiss Trump's ring before they will be allowed in the WH Press office? "
The blame for GOP insanity lies with the GOP. But that makes for a short article, I guess.
Why’d they let everyone get to Munich this wknd instead of dragging out the votes to make it painful to get thru them, as just 1 example?
You only get to say yr tools are too limited when you use the ones you have
The difference btwn ppl & institutions that make a difference and those that don’t is that the former try anyway with the best tools they’ve got, & sometimes that sparks something bigger
Over-emphasizing our powerlessness makes it true
He will never be my president
I will always vote blue
Also fuck elong
But NOT something to worry about. MORE worrisome is Google and Apples and social media caving to appease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_the_Americas
Know it, speak it, LOVE IT.
MAGDA = Make America Give a Damn Again
I shouldn't have to pay more bc some donor wants this gem as his fringe benefit. If they understaff, move people out bc they're gay or Black, we've gotta protest. Again.
he has entered the toddler phase of his dementia
https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2412a.html?loclr=eashal
let’s see how far this thing goes
For Turtle Island
Gulf of America is an equally racist word
America celebrates holocaust denial
every Thanksgiving
These are the same people that rewrote their brains to be ‘pro-torture’ because Republican leadership said it was ok
And there is no bottom for this type of person; they will excuse anything