• officermike@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does. We should just leave it alone.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if this was inspired to circumvent the new ban on oil drilling Biden just enacted. “We’re drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico.”

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      14 days ago

      The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name. In fact strictly speaking “Gulf of America” is not a bad name since it is the largest gulf in the Americas AFAIK.

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        14 days ago

        The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name.

        Agreed. Let’s also change our demonym to Unitedstatian.

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          14 days ago

          That’s also unclear, given the United States of Mexico.

          Edit: I guess we could do Columbian, but I gotta assume Colombia would be annoyed and it’s not exactly descriptive of our foreign policy.

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          13 days ago

          You joke but in many languages they do that, for instance “statunitensi” or “estadounidenses”

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            3 days ago

            I don’t joke actually. I chose “Unitedstatians” exactly because that’s what other languages do.

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        14 days ago

        Except America has more then one gulf so it isn’t the gulf of America it is one gulf in America.

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      14 days ago

      Canada has more land mass than the US does. Perhaps Trump should be talking about integrating the US into Canada (and doing away with the now-redundant US Presidential position).

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      14 days ago

      But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does.

      USA != America. USA is a country that resides on the North American Continent.

      While I know Trump is doing this to try and claim it as the USA’s… It actually makes sense if you actually use “America” properly to refer to North, Central and South America.

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      14 days ago

      But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does.

      He’ll solve that too.