Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

• knightly@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was unaware that the executive branch encompassed the entirety of the government. Please, do elaborate.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you want to know more about how the US government works, I’m not the person to educate you.

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    • knightly@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then why are you here trying to tell people that one asshole with an opinion is the government?

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can argue with strangers on the Internet as much as you like, but the fact is, the US president can and has changed the name of multiple geographic features, and arguing with me won’t change that.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Clearly, since you think an executive order is a law.

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• Breve@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because Google is a US company, and not in a position to tell the US government to take a walk, that’s why.

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    • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, they are to an extent. The laws of the US are ostensibly supposed to allow citizens to call things whatever they want. If the government wants to throw a hissy fit and say the constitution is meaningless after all, let them do it. At least then we could give up all of the pretense that they are supposed to care about what it says.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        to allow citizens to call things whatever they want.

        I very much doubt that privilege extends to a mapmaker

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    • Breve@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tianamen square shows up just fine on Google maps, who is supposedly censoring them?

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Executive orders are not laws. You do know that, right?

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