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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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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, it sets the official name of each place. That’s what everyone here is talking about.

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      • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Again, read the page you linked:

        President Benjamin Harrison signed an Executive Order establishing the BGN and giving it authority to resolve unsettled geographic names questions.

        Key word: “unsettled”

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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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    • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      i feel your pain and disillusionment but it is what it is. The real “asshole” is changing the world with his Sharpie.

      Good luck to you for the next 4 years

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      • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If Trump gets to redefine reality as he sees fit then we do too.

        See you on the other side, friendo.

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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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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He’s the part of the government that has the power to unilaterally change the name of a location.

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      • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You’re thinking of fascism. In America, the legislature names things, the executive signs or vetoes, and the judiciary adjudicates.

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      • HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Kim Jung Un you mean?

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