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Trump can’t stop changing the name of things and now has US state as his target
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Just want to remind everyone that everything the US ever had is stolen, including the term "America". The whole fucking continent is named America you stupid fuck, who said you can use it for your country? Everyone in North, South and Central America is American.
I will defend the naming of United States of America simply because it was the first country to break away from the European powers, the abbreviation of America was simply inevitable given how it took another generation for the Haitians and Mexicans to break free. Also there was a lot of early ambitions that the US would've been closer to the modern EU and would've expanded far further across the continent. Obviously that didn't and won't happen but yeah.
Haitian where literal slaves who broke free, while the US didn't abolish slavery until 1860s (on paper). Not much lessons of freedom to give here.
And how do you call people who lives on the continent if the US citizens are the real Americans? Nobodys? USA's bitches? Should the Germans be entitled to called themselves European because they did whatever first? Do the Chinese have the rights on Asia because they are the most populous?
This is just more example of US arrogance.
BTW the name comes from the guy mapped south America. Maybe they should be the only Americans.
The failures and successes of the revolution are kinda irrelevant as to who broke away from the European powers first, Haiti and Mexico came second and third. The politics outside of that have no bearing on the naming convention therein. It really does just come down to dibs at that point.
Personally I don't like identifying people by continent since it's clunky and stupid, similarly I'd rather not label people based on the political entity they live under. Region, ethnicity, culture, and religion is all fine in my opinion since those all have characteristics that can be identified rather than whatever shit stained flag happens to be flying at any time. For example I am a Californian and more specifically an Inland Imperial, but I will rarely if ever identify with the US outside of entirely practical reasons since quite frankly I want to see the USA reduced to the same category as the HRE that is to say dead.
Oh I entirely agree on the naming thing, it's fucken stupid. There's a Victoria 2 mod called Divergence of Darkness that does that, South America is called Ameriga (America) while I believe North America is called Arcadia or some shit can't remember. Personally I wish a convention could be done by the various North American states to find a better fucken name, personally I'm a fan of Appalachia-Laruntine, or however you spell that second word because I'm lazy.
Easy. In English, if someone lives in the United States, they're American. If someone lives in North America, they're North American; if they live in South America they're South American. Even better, you could use the demonym for the country they're from, i.e. Argentinian, Guatemala, Canadian, etc.
Edit: I think the confusion comes from different culture's viewpoints on the number of continents. In the Anglophone world, there is no continent called "America," there are two continents called North and South America.
Ouais, ça ne me plaît pas.
Puisque désormais tout le monde peut décider comment on appelle les autres, les personnes vivant sur le continent continueront d'être des Américains, sauf les citoyens américains, qui seront des « pédofascistes ». C'est beaucoup plus logique et c'est beaucoup plus simple pour tout le monde. Nous allons également faire de nouvelles cartes avec Pedoland plutôt que USA.
Bravo pour avoir ignoré mon commentaire et persisté dans la stupidité.
Later, loser. Thanks for making me type in the Fr*nch "language."
Ça a dû faire vraiment mal a ton ego de colonialiste de devoir utiliser une autre "langue". Dis bonjour au citoyens de pedoland pour moi.
Alright, I came in with a good faith answer about how the English language is used, and you started absolutely shitting your pants en Français, so apparently you're not interested in any sort of discourse, you came here to argue, so let's fucking go.
The balls you have to have to call me a "colonizer" is fucking insane. Are you fucking kidding me? You're literally French, look in the goddamn mirror. Remember those Haitians you were talking about, the ones that liberates themselves? Liberated themselves from who, motherfucker? Dit bonjour aux esclavagistes pour moi.
I don't know why you've immediately perceived me as an enemy, I hate the orange fuck more than you do. Sure, American foreign policy may have an effect on you, but it's nothing like American domestic policy. I have to deal with my tax dollars being spent on bullshit wars. I have to deal with grocery prices nearly doubling in a matter of 2 years due to dumbfuck tariffs. ICE is shooting people in the street, and the military is bombing schools overseas.
I am not your enemy, I do what I can to resist the regime, but I have to survive. There are few good choices here. I cannot throw my life away to accomplish nothing. Far-right extremism is on the rise across the Western world; I hope you remember how you treated us when Le Pen wins and you're trying to fight the good fight.