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Subject: Re: gulf of america
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:59:59 +0100
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On 11.02.25 16:17, badgolferman wrote:
> Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> 
>> On 11.02.25 15:34, Rick wrote:
>>> On 2/11/2025 8:17 AM, badgolferman wrote:
>>>> The change follows an executive order by US President Donald
>>>> Trump  renaming the area. Google has previously said it has “a
>>>> longstanding  practice of applying name changes when they have
>>>> been updated in  official government sources.”
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/business/trump-gulf-of-america-google-maps-hnk-intl/index.html
>>>>
>>> I believe the legislation has 30 days to take effect.
>>
>> Bullshit! The Trumpistan executive bodies have no direct say in such
>> matters. The whole thing looks the same as when the Sowjetunion
>> renamed Wolgograd to Stalingrad or St. Petersburg to Leningrad and
>> all lick spittles obeyed. Until 1990.
>>
>> https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/what-geographic-names-information-system-gnis
> 
> 
> In official US government documentation they certainly do have direct
> say.

Yes. But not the oral office.

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