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

Everyone needs to get used to ignoring this bullshit. The Gulf of America thing isn’t important. It doesn’t effect anyone, and there’s far too many posts about it when there are real things to pay attention to. This is purely a distraction. Stop giving it attention.

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IzzyJ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
There is one part thats relevant, and thats the government suing AsPo for refusing to comply. Thats a direct attack on the First Amendment

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archchan@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s the details that make up the whole picture.

As an isolated situation, the renaming thing may be stupid and not worth giving any credence. Energy can be spent resisting elsewhere in more useful places. However along with the rest of the actions of billionare corpos that kissed the ring, it’s part of the overall trend with devastating consequences. Bullshit details shouldn’t be ignored, but acknowledged as “they’re fucking us from all directions right now and waging war on reality, and we really should stop letting them”.

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Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s definitely a distraction tactic, but at the very least looking at Google Maps and Bing Maps makes very clear to people which megacorps are riding the oligarchy; just in case anyone held hope their favorite “techbro revolutionary” might side with them. PS: Mapquest gets it right.

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MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Nah it actually matters more than you think. As an American you might think this is okay, but its not. And Trump getting away with whatever he wants all the time is because of enabling

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- Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  For sure. It’s just that this isn’t the part that matter. This is part of the enabling. If you’re paying attention here you don’t see the other thing over there. It’s slight of hand. You only have so much attention, and it’s better spent where it actually has an effect. This will be reversed with the next president.
  
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Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Reality has to BE.

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theluckyone@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Out with the oldspeak. In with the newspeak.

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