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[–] 136 points 2 years ago (11 children)

This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf

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  • [+] 108 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    And it will undoubtedly pay off for them. This is the first brazenly tech oligarchy-driven administration.

    Remember who was at Trump’s inauguration? Musk, obviously, but also:

    • Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
    • Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
    • Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
    • Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet

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    Trump, a populist president, is flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration

    Tim Apple isn’t your friend, either. No oligarch is.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I was hoping Apple wouldn’t be there considering Tim is openly gay

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be clear, they've changed names in line with official government policy before, not just for Trump's admin.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah but that makes too much sense for emotional & reactional people that don't rely on logic

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I get what you’re saying, but the renaming itself is entirely an act of emotion and reaction, with no trace of logic, too. It’s pretty much all we should expect to see from anyone for a while.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If something as ridiculous currys favor and infkuence with Trump the USA is truly coming to an end.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The USA is now part of a list of "sensitive countries" with authoritarian states with their own version of reality. When users in one of the countries on this list visit Google sites, they see that government's version of reality. This is nothing new. Google does it all the time with disputed territories. It's only news because it's the first time the US has an authoritarian government.

    Here's how it looks when visiting from a Mexican device with the language set to Australian English while located in Hungary.

    1000019054

    Edit: undoxxed myself lol

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In Google maps set to Polish while in the UK, it shows

    Zatoka Meksykańska (Zatoka Amerykańska)

    Which translates to

    Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Distraction from:

    • closing down the Consumer Protection Agency, USAID, and the Education Agency
    • cutting off funding to the universities
    • stealing our student, treasury and health records while taking over the purse
    • not following federal judge's orders
    • building an unregulated concentration camp in Cuba
    • etc.

    Edit: That's why trump did it. All tech companies are in his hands now.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, there are no smokescreens. Trump is literally this stupid. Don't attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to narcissism.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post this somewhere else:

    “The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

    So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

    “All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

    https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review

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