STOP wasting time, energy, & bandwidth on this distraction!
“The English Channel” has *different names* by France, Spain, Portugal, etc.
Because: it *DOESN’T MATTER”
Now get off it and use energies and bandwidth on any of the 1000 wrong things with Trump/his Admin that affect PEOPLE.
Absolutely! I subscribe to a LOT. I'm going to stop every subscription with any reporting agency that claims to be about reporting truth about Trump, yet follows any of his ridiculous, illegal, hijacked-somehow, fascist coup🐂💩.
This is a 5 alarm fire, God damn it!🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Same - earlier this week, Apple Maps still had Gulf of Mexico; I looked this morning and it is now Gulf of America. No one has the spine to stand up to F47!
I sold all of my google stock today because they changed their map from The Gulf of Mexico, to the The Gulf of America. I know it probably won’t make a difference, but if everyone used their money as their voice, they might start listening. Money talks! Spend wisely!
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. Gulf of America will appear as answer
3. Click the three dots to right of Gulf of America.
4. Select Send Feedback
5. Click Gulf Of America text.
6. Select "Inaccurate content".
7. Select "Incorrect" and type “The correct name is Gulf of Mexico.
I wish everyone felt the same and as strongly about his fake DOGE agency. Media reporting on it without clarifying -every damned time- that it’s fake is insane.
There will be plenty of Trump issues to oppose. I just question spending much time on this naming issue.
It actually harms no-one, whereas so many other issues are VERY harmful.
If you can't fight every issue, pick a fight that matters, and where you might have some effect.
Understood - but Google and Apple fell in line with the capricious whims of an illegitimate government so quickly. It makes me feel that they will capitulate to other, less inconsequential demands. I wish to take my business elsewhere. Consumer power is one of the few things we have left.
I suppose it’s not news that the US is owned by corporations, and that boycotts will not be effective if critical mass isn’t reached, but i feel it’s the right thing for me to do.
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
** The Gulf of Mexico is not the "Gulf of America."
Even if it were within US borders, a name change would have to go through the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Any old government official can't arbitrarily change the name of a geographic feature. **
It will always be the Golf Of Mexico, then, now and the future, in trumps pea brain it will be the Golf of Russia, oops, I ment the Golf of America, trump & MTG can waist tax payers money with gutless companies who make maps, who shouldn't get paid in next administration if they change it
I wish enough people did the same for letting Trump and republicans get away with this DEI bullshit! Maybe it wouldn’t have gotten to the point that he could use it to knee-cap the whole dam country! But here we are!
It got on my last nerve so I left the Gulf of America a one star review tonight: “Used to be awesome, but these new clowns in management are ruining everything.” I felt better :)
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
I’ve gone through the very painstaking task of 100% erasing Google from my life. No Gmail, no Google drive, no YouTube, etc etc. Shameful a corporation like that kowtowed to “POTUS’ “ DEI demands.
Will you pick it up if we, Danes, call it the Gulf of Denmark? After all, the Vikings visited America centuries before Christopher Columbus, but didn’t overstay their welcome. Trade you Greenland for Maine & Vermont!
My apology and no disrespect to Grønlændere or indigenous Kalaallit. I shouldn’t stoop to ill-conceived levity condidering the outrageous insanity of it all.
Yes! Right now the app has 4.7 stars overall. 😱 I left a one star review and then deleted the app. This is a really easy action, and a nice break from making phone calls and sending emails.
I googled it. Picked gulf of America. Hit the 3 dots and reported it from there. Twice. Once as inaccurate info and once as dangerous or misleading info.
Why are you bending the knee to the baby king of the US? 400 years of Gulf of Mexico and you change its name? You are ALL either useful idiots or cheap servants to a man who would throw you under the bus with one wrong move. I'll find another map app--and no, not Waze.
Okay, this is a dumb fight in the big picture.
Many organizations follow the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). And if the GNIS says it’s the Gulf of America, in America, that’s what it is. Defying that is editorializing.
Understand that they’re following the agency’s lead. So even if the agency is following the lead of a lunatic; that’s not for Google to fix.
A country is allowed to call stuff whatever it wants with its own purview. Most countries aren’t crazy, so they play nice, but…them’s the way of things.
While it's true that some bodies of water have a different name in different countries, did those names randomly appear at the whim of a narcissistic imbecile just "making it so" while corporations cowered in fear?
Fuckwit thinks he named it for the country. Such a dribbling idiot, he doesn't understand that the country is the United States OF America: we use 'American' as shorthand cos it flows better than US-ian.
America is the name of 3 continents. He renamed the Gulf for the whole western hemisphere.
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“The English Channel” has *different names* by France, Spain, Portugal, etc.
Because: it *DOESN’T MATTER”
Now get off it and use energies and bandwidth on any of the 1000 wrong things with Trump/his Admin that affect PEOPLE.
Disgusting
….an easy act of resistance, and protest
This is a 5 alarm fire, God damn it!🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Let’s cut off the oxygen to the asthmatic bronchitis patient at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Carries about the same weight.
I’m so over this bullshit.
#GulfOfMAGA
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. Gulf of America will appear as answer
3. Click the three dots to right of Gulf of America.
4. Select Send Feedback
5. Click Gulf Of America text.
6. Select "Inaccurate content".
7. Select "Incorrect" and type “The correct name is Gulf of Mexico.
Long Live The Gulf of Mexico!
Now rendered useless by impotent leadership.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/google-calendar-black-history-pride-month
Who f'ng cares what Trump calls it.
More important things to take action on.
It actually harms no-one, whereas so many other issues are VERY harmful.
If you can't fight every issue, pick a fight that matters, and where you might have some effect.
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
I wrote:
** The Gulf of Mexico is not the "Gulf of America."
Even if it were within US borders, a name change would have to go through the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Any old government official can't arbitrarily change the name of a geographic feature. **
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
"Gulf of 'Murika"
Don't trust digital. I can be so easily altered in many ways.
There’ll be a lot of changes to make as these nimrods kiss the ring.
Fing Bend the Knee’ers…
Why are you bending the knee to the baby king of the US? 400 years of Gulf of Mexico and you change its name? You are ALL either useful idiots or cheap servants to a man who would throw you under the bus with one wrong move. I'll find another map app--and no, not Waze.
Many organizations follow the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). And if the GNIS says it’s the Gulf of America, in America, that’s what it is. Defying that is editorializing.
We have more important things to focus on.
Accepting anything it does, even the dumb and pointless things (of which there will be many), is granting it a consideration it does not deserve.
A country is allowed to call stuff whatever it wants with its own purview. Most countries aren’t crazy, so they play nice, but…them’s the way of things.
Dusappointing
@npr.org #BothSides it
America is the name of 3 continents. He renamed the Gulf for the whole western hemisphere.