• @officermike
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    991 day 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.”

    • poVoq
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      551 day 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 hours ago

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

      • finley
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        911 day ago

        This is, of course, not why Trump is doing this.

      • @RememberTheApollo_
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        Then maybe “Gulf of the Americas” would be more appropriate.

      • Carighan Maconar
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        101 day ago

        True, they’ll probably call it Gulf of 'MURICA!

      • @jg1i
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        The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name.

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

        • @idiomaddict
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          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1822 hours 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).

      • @makyo
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        821 hours ago

        I’m sure Canada would love that influx of crazy

        • @mojofrododojo
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          Cascadia, the one envisioned as a racist white ethnostate?

          What the fuck is wrong with you?

          • @Entropywins
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            -315 hours ago

            I was born and raised in Cascadia and I have never once heard of it being some white racist ethnostate it’s more of a bioregion/cool people thing…I googled it and it looks like some folk in the 1840s wanted to do that but comparing us with them is ridiculous on your part to tell ya the truth.

    • Saik0
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      518 hours 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.

    • @GroundedGator
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      220 hours ago

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

      He’ll solve that too.