• Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    There’s actually debate over whether America was actually named after Amerigo Vespucci. My understanding is that it was likely just a coincidence that his name is so similar to America. As I understand it, it was actually named after a tribe of native Americans. But native Americans don’t pass the Republican scale of whiteness, so they’ll probably try to rename America anyways. I’m calling it now: they’re going to rename it to Trumpia

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Given the religious fervor throughout its history, how about naming it after an ancient biblical region?

    Transjordan?

    Wait. Shit, that won’t work, even Jordan’s gone woke. Maybe something else in the region?

    OH! How about Gilead!?

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Except Transjordan isn’t biblical. It’s the region of Palestine that became The Kingdom of Jordan. As opposed to Cisjordan, which is the region that became Israel and the present Palestine.

      But I don’t think we’re allowed to say cis anymore. /s

      • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Except Transjordan isn’t biblical

        I know, but when I Googled to confirm the name of the country in Handmaid’s Tale, I noticed the real Gilead was in Transjordan, saw a joke opportunity sitting there, and that was the smoothest I could work it in. I’m open to workshopping it.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Sodom. From the story of Sodom & Gommorah, but I would choose the name based on a passage from Ezekiel.

      “This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.”

      • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        I grew up being taught that America was literally the “Whore of Babylon” from the Book of Revelation.

        And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. - Revelation 17:5

        It was specifically said to be a prophecy about the United States and once you understood that, the rest of the story just clicked into place! I want to vomit just thinking back to that bullshit.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        Yep, in classical biblical literature it’s understood that the “sin of Sodom” was lack of social justice.

        It’s the Christian interpretation that made it primarily a sex thing.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 days ago

    After Hispaniola they made a brief slave raid in the Bahamas, capturing 232 Lucayans, and then returned to Spain.[34] src

    i think the cult would call him ‘one of the good ones’

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    “Yucatán”

    Which means “the end of your finger” because the Spanish asked some folks what they were pointing at and they didn’t understand the question

  • Evil_incarnate@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Trumpland. Trumptopia. United states of Trump. Trumplvania. The new republic of Trump.

    Just testing the “no wrong answers”

    • MrGeekman@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Actually, that’s Africa. Africa is the birthplace of slavery. Also, unfortunately, every major civilization was built on the backs of slaves.

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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        11 days ago

        I’m not saying that we either invented slavery or are unique in benefiting from it. We’ve written a loophole for prisoners to be used as slave labor into our constitution and have the highest number of prisoners of any nation, we have politicians actively trying to create new laws adding more slave labor, and we’ve tied healthcare to employment and left per-Capita income so low that insinuating that the people who put food on your table are slaves isn’t as laughable as it seems.

        The reason I suggested the name is that we’re the only “advanced” civilization that still directly relies on slave labor. I know that there are examples of other non-third-world countries that consume goods and services from sweatshops, but, as one of the world-leaders in consumerism, we arguably fund and keep alive the demand that necessitates sweatshops.

        So, no, we’re not unique in our slavery—just in our ability and willingness to sexy it up and slap some paint and labels on it that help us perpetuate it.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      Hey now - why go with Lee when you could go with Forrest and celebrate the first leader of the KKK.

      Also, much better statutes.

  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    Donald Trump’s Best, Biggest Country in the World, the Biggest, Juiciest Country there is, you know it, folks, No Illegals Allowed, No Fentanyl, All the Guns! And Covfefe!

  • BossDj@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    Annual bidding by major corporations for the opportunity to rename the country each year, stadium style.

    Let’s go United States of Waste Management