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How can renaming another nations stuff be legal?
I mean, you can only enforce it in your own jurisdiction, right?
Your country can decide to call Sweden Poop-land, your own localized maps will label it Poop-land, but on swedish maps it will still be called Sverige.
It isn't...
It's shared between the US and Canada, it could just as well be named Lake New York.
From Wikipedia:
So it's a better name for sure, at least keeping the memory of the natives colonized and cleansed by the French to make Canada... But it's not like naming a lake in memory of people you erased erases the crimes...
This is such a stupid thing to spend any energy being upset over, just roll your eyes and call it wherever you want.
The empire is collapsing (thank fuck) and its citizens are upset about the name of a lake instead of revolting because they're ruled by an ultra rich pedophile class.
Well I legally rename the US pedonazis land. And you will be little-asslicker-1.
I genuinely don't understand this comment... How am I an asskisser for pointing out the pedo Nazis are trying to distract you with trivial shit like the name of a lake?
Yes, please refer to the US as pedonazi land, and Israel pedonazi haven, I fully endorse that! Call them what they are, I always do.
It doesn't matter what the pedonazis say, no one seriously calls the gulf of Mexico by any other name... You need to redirect your anger at what matters, your taxes are used to commit genocides and enrich Nazi pedophiles, don't waste your anger on a stupid distraction like this one.
Edit: oh, you're just calling me a name to make me upset at calling me a name, I thought you actually had a point. Lol you can call me little fucker who licks his mom's dirty asshole for all I care... I'm not gonna be upset at such trivial nonsense.
A government controlling information, renaming things and changing history is not trivial, it's literally the plot of 1984.
And if you dont see how the most powerful corporations in the world being complicit in all of this is a huge problem, well good luck....