• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    It’s just culture war bullshit. Trump gets to distinguish himself from other politicians and pretend he’s doing something for the nationalists without actually spending any money or improving their lives in any way. It also means people talk about this instead of the Iran War or the Epstein files or the masked thugs raiding workplaces and hunting down minorities.

    Keep an eye out for the other side of this which will be establishment politicians running on “restoring sanity” by changing it back to Lake Ontario, because they don’t want to run on abolishing ICE or anything that actually matters.

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    It’s just another loyalty test thing so the wannabe emperor can quickly and easily determine who’s openly on his side.

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    The American people don’t gain anything.

    The American regime is “flooding the zone”.

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    They didn’t change it. Only usa recognizes it as such. That’s like me saying your name is now Tony. Doesn’t make it true. Unless your name actually is Tony, I suppose…

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      That’s like me saying your name is now Tony. Doesn’t make it true. Unless your name actually is Tommy, I suppose…

      What I expect to be an ironic auto correct error has really highlighted Trump’s opinion on renaming things.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      That’s so backwards. Your name is whatever you say your name is. What is written in a government database isn’t your name, it’s an opaque identifier.

  • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
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    We don’t get anything. DJT signed this executive order on about the same day that a report came out saying the USA’s defense missiles in Europe are critically low and unable to repel a serious Russian attack because the missiles have been moved to the middle east and/or used against Iran.

    Now we’re talking about Lake Ontario instead of our inability to defend our European interests and positions.

    It was always intended to wag the dog.

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    He’s only doing it to elicit anger. He’s just a petty little bully. While it might distract from the Epstein files or the domestic policy dumpster fire, i don’t think he’s doing it for any other reason than it amuses him to piss people off.

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      And its base of idiots LOVE it… they think it is a strong capable leader that gets shit done… meanwhile they’re paying a considerable amount more for everything than they were mearly 2.5 years ago and do not see any correlation about WHO caused this mess. They say “ah we gotta take the hit for a little while till he makes things better!”

      They don’t understand their lives were better economically before the pedophile, but they couldn’t be openly racist and misogynistic. That’s the part they love.