Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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The lowest hanging fruit here is probably Mexico
Or as Americans call it, America.
That makes sense, right? We changed The gulf of Mexico to The gulf of America, so naturally that means you have Canada to the north. The united states of America in the middle, and America (formerly Mexico) to the south.
And all of this on the continent known as North America. Which just above South America.
Earth is stupid.
"Columbus thought he was in India! And did he worry about being wrong? No! He just called everybody Indians, and we still do it today. Why? 'Cause. You want to be an American? You fill out that ballot because you don't know what you're doing. Just like when we named this country after the fourth or fifth guy who discovered it, Amerigo Vespucci. Who cares? America."
-- Tracy Jordan
Only on your own maps. The other 95% of the world doesn't follow this capricious re-name.