• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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            11 days ago

            Hmmm, good point. The Caribbean Sea will now be known as the Sea of the Americas, lol. Idk, I was trying to unite everyone.

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        11 days ago

        Mexico’s full name is ”The United States of Mexico", I think they should rename their map’s version to Gulf of The United States just to add to the confusion and make the point these things, like all facts, are useless when people suffer no consequences from making them up.

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      11 days ago

      Question for all non-US natives. When somebody tells you they are from America do you think the continent or the USA?

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          11 days ago

          And that’s the point of my question, and this change. Trump feels like he won, because he took something away from Mexico.

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            11 days ago

            Yes, agreed. He seems to regard life as a zero-sum game, in which he can’t win unless someone else loses, so he doesn’t understand the concept of win-win. It’s a kind of cognitive bias which is a serious weakness in someone who apparently imagines himself to be a master of ‘the art of the deal’.