I would like to petition Canada to rename Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein.
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Does he realise America is a continent? The United States OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. USA isn't exclusive to the 50 stages it compromises off. There are 35 counties on the American continent.
Sorry for saying continent so much.
He wouldn't understand. He's incontinent.
which continent? 💩
No. That would require him to understand things.
Maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both
Oh good, we’ll have two “American Oceans” because he’s too fucking stupid and patronizing to think of another name.
"Left Ocean of America" and "Right Ocean of America"
The USA has given "America" a negative connotation
Yeah but you already know people from the USA don't consider the rest of the Americas "America"
Pacific could be renamed to Ocean of the Warmongering Pedofile.
Soon he will rename the whole continent to just "America".
America of America
I propose that all the other countries in the world rename USA The United Mistakes of America, or maybe just Dumbfuckland.
Edit: Dumbfuckistan is even better.
In my neck of the woods, some people call it 'The Land of the Idiot' (in english and all)
Dude is so dumb, at least we can change them back later.
It'll be like cleaning up after a 4-year-long bender. Probably find puke in just as many weird places too.
This ongoing obsession of his is a huge W for the "America is the continent, not the country" folks. By the time we're through with all this, no-one is gonna want to use the name America for anything. America? I don't know her; I live in the EU (los estados unidos) thank you.
In Spanish Estados Unidos is abbreviated EE.UU.
We were so close to not having to deal with his bullshit a second time but nobody wants to put in the range time to do it right.
Omg I just laughed so hard, thank you. I needed that.
Funnily, all uses of "America" for the whole continent (including the north) are misinterpretations of the original map drawn by Mr Waldseemüller, who invented the name "America" in the first and used it for Brazil.
On the same map some designation for the northern part of the continent can also be found, stating that it was a province discovered by the command of the king of Castille:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg
So, the only logical step will be to name North-America as "New Castille" from now on, to correct for the screw-up of the post-Waldseemüller map-reading-noobs.
I used to do this for almost my entire life. The orange todler made clean up my act and say US and people of the US instead of America and Americans.
If a German ever tries to explain the meaning of the word Fremdscham to you, this is it.
Its just not how languages work.