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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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  • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh, you’ve been caught being dumb and your story is changing.

    First it was “the government”, now it’s “the president”.

    That’s not how America works, lol. Naming things is a legislative responsibility. Trump can sign as many executive orders as he wants, but it isn’t official without an act of congress and a chance for the judiciary to object.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, and Congress delegated that authority in 1947 via Public Law 242, creating the US Board on Geographic Names, under the Secretary of the Interior, part of the executive branch. The President has the authority to direct the Secretary.

      You can speak as confidently as you like, but you’re still wrong. Feel free to learn: www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names

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      • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Did you not read the page you linked?

        That org was “established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government.”

        It’s a standards-setting org that adjudicates between other agencies of the government when there is disagreement between them about a place name, it isn’t entitled to rename things all willy-nilly, lol~

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    • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      potus is the “head of government”. Would you prefer him to write your head of government?

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      • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That would be less inaccurate, lol.

        And no. I’ll be a pedantic asshole to anyone who pretends that Trump is anything other than one of President Musk’s assistants.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The president is part of the government, they’re not two separate entities.

      And once again, there is nothing to be gained by arguing with me about this.

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      • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You underestimate how much I enjoy arguing with people on the internet, lol.

        So is this your admission that your earlier statement was false, or are ypu still pretending that “part of” is the same thing as “all”?

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