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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Since America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)

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Since America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
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    Turtle Island

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      Hey now, I’m feeling attacked!

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      To the top with you

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    Trade names with the Gulf and become the United States of Mexico.

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      A not-insignificant amount of the USA was Mexico, at one time.

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      That’s just Mexico’s actual name

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        Yup

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      There’s nothing united about it, other than maybe hatred towards minorities

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        other than maybe hatred towards minorities

        dissents

        There are dozens thousands of us!

    • ___@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      New New Mexico and Old New Mexico

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      United States of Gulf & Mexico America

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    Stolidus

    • It sounds strong and powerful
    • It’s Latin, and therefore properly awesome.
    • It’s definition is: foolish, absurd, dumb, forceless, powerless
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      Your first it’s is correct. It is Latin.

      Your second it’s should be its. The definition belongs to the word. But to be fair, I typed it correctly, and then just now had to go back and fix the autoincorrection. So that probably happened to you as well.

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    Whatever the Cherokee word for “stolen land” is.

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      Truly the English specialty: stealing stuff from other people.

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        Spain owned more

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          They did, then Britain came along and pulled a deepseek on them :)

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            It was America at the time

            They had a whole revolutionary war over Britain blocking their expansion

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      Or, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed.

      Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.

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        https://indigamerica.blogspot.com/

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    OK hear me out: It should be named after the first European explorer to discover it and popularize the European expansion: Christopher Columbus.

    • Like its namesake, the nation too is racist, cruel and genocidal. Even the Spanish Inquisition era Catholics were like, damn Christopher!
    • Like the largest exporter of cocaíne in South America, it too is full of drugs, and its elections are the plaything of big money cartels and foreign powers.
    • It was mostly settled by white people from England.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you your new nation: British Columbia.

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      The world isn’t ready for Mega BC

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    South Canada

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    Rename it to Mexico. Then the whole gulf of mexico situation is fixed.

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      A vast amount of it used to be Mexico.

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    Dumbfuckistan

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    Donald Trump’s Best, Biggest Country in the World, the Biggest, Juiciest Country there is, you know it, folks, No Illegals Allowed, No Fentanyl, All the Guns! And Covfefe!

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    American States of Maga

    And yes, it is infinitely recursive.

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    South Canada.

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    Clown Country

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    Formally: Jeb!
    Informally: Jebland
    Dialectical variant of English: Jeblish
    Collective name for the people of Jebland: Jebanese

    I’m kidding of course. We all know the process to rename the U.S. would be taken over by the wealthy and we’d wind up named HCH (Human Capital Holdings), LLC, a shell corporation/nation that is jointly owned by Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street.

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      Please clap.

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    The Land of the Flee while you still can

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    George Soros’ United Commune of Mexifornia

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