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Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

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Post by gizajob »

abirch wrote: post #5
cebert wrote: post #3

I apologize to my Canadian friends. This is embarrassing.

This is Idiocracy the movie IRL. I can't wait for plants to need electrolytes.

Putting a UFC fighting cage on the lawn of the White House was another acceleration in that direction I didn’t imagine I’d live to see.

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

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Post by VladVladikoff »

cebert wrote: post #3

I apologize to my Canadian friends. This is embarrassing.

As a Canadian, we are mostly just laughing about how childish he is. As a Canadian business owner who has American customers, I’m far more concerned about his temper tantrums relating to trade, however so far they have not impacted my sector.

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

#33

Post by atonse »

cebert wrote: post #3

I apologize to my Canadian friends. This is embarrassing.

Not sure what’s there to apologize about. Canada can still call it Lake Ontario right? Or I wonder if it matters whether it’s on American soil or not whether international bodies recognize it?

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

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Post by kijashdkujdfhas »

graemep wrote: post #22

Lots of countries change the names of things, even countries themselves.. Bombay to Mumbai, Ceylon to Sri Lanka, Turkey to Türkiye etc. Yes, some of those are specific to a name in a particular language and all have precedents rather than being entirely new. However, it is a precedent for governments deciding the names of things. This, as its just made up, reminds me a lot of political/nationalist renaming of things…

Worse than made up, it's the sort of thing an angry 6 year old would come up with.

Totally unserious behavior, and it's ridiculous that Americans and the rest of the world have to put up with this nonsense.

A small number of Republican representatives and senators could end it all today by publicly supporting impeachment.

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

#35

Post by pfdietz »

throw0101a wrote: post #20
pfdietz wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but it's also Trump and the GOP self-immolating. November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout. I expect the next administration will push through some laws limiting this sort of idiocy.

> November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout. So you have faith in the average American voter? (Or at least a plurality of them?)

The polls are increasingly dire for the GOP. They're even losing the military vote.

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

#36

Post by charcircuit »

cebert wrote: post #3

I apologize to my Canadian friends. This is embarrassing.

Why not choose to feel patriotic about the decision. It gives us recognition for what we've done with the body of water. Arguably the fact that you feel embarrassed or need to apologize shows the lack of patriotism you feel over the body of water, so I think this new name can help future people feel patriotic over it. There is a lot of power in a name.

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

#37

Post by gizajob »

swed420 wrote: post #28
pfdietz wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but it's also Trump and the GOP self-immolating. November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout. I expect the next administration will push through some laws limiting this sort of idiocy.

> Yes, but it's also Trump and the GOP self-immolating. November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout. > I expect the next administration will push through some laws limiting this sort of idiocy. The problem is that the bar is now so low that basically anybody will win, by design. They'll pass some surface level bullshit to treat symptoms, like how lakes can or cannot be renamed. But they'll fail to address an…

*American Democracy

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

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Post by maxerickson »

throw0101a wrote: post #20
pfdietz wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but it's also Trump and the GOP self-immolating. November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout. I expect the next administration will push through some laws limiting this sort of idiocy.

> November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout. So you have faith in the average American voter? (Or at least a plurality of them?)

I feel like I am not good at anticipating election results, but anyway, the people arguing that the midterms will be a referendum on the economy make sense to me.

Expensive gas and groceries are pretty unpopular. I guess some chunk of people will find a way to wholly blame Biden or whatever.

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

#39

Post by Hugsbox »

atonse wrote: post #33
cebert wrote: post #3

I apologize to my Canadian friends. This is embarrassing.

Not sure what’s there to apologize about. Canada can still call it Lake Ontario right? Or I wonder if it matters whether it’s on American soil or not whether international bodies recognize it?

It's a transparently disrespectful move. Apologizing for disrespectful behaviour is pretty normal.

Re: Lake Ontario ("Lake America")

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Post by butokai »

I am Italian, and we get quite pissed when the government issues executive orders (the head of state can't do it), although it happens relatively often. I live in France, and when the president resorted to using them it felt like he was threatening democracy.

The US mechanism seems the strongest of the three, and people have considered this a normal thing in a democracy long enough for this to happen.

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