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[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 220 points 5 days ago (6 children)

As a born and raised New Mexican, fuck this absolute piece of garbage, and fuck anyone who has voted or is continuing to vote for the convicted rapist and pedophile party. New Mexico is a culturally rich and diverse state, full of traditions going back hundreds, in some cases thousands, of years.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Y’all motherfuckers be… enchanting…

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[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (4 children)

There's dozens of us New Mexicans here! Dozens!

It's such a stupid idea because even people who voted for him have New Mexican pride and wouldn't agree with this change, it's simply stupid

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[–] SecretiveVault@lemmy.zip 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Instead they could change it to New Epstein Files

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[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 124 points 5 days ago (8 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 69 points 5 days ago (14 children)

Nobody has the stones to do anything about it

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Even Death is like "Nah, thanks"

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Think of it from Death's point of view.

He spares this one guy for a while, and in return, that one guy does his job for him, for free.

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[–] hayvan@piefed.world 22 points 5 days ago (13 children)

That's irrelevant. Why is he still president should be the question.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 90 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Gulf of America, lake America, new America? Just how uncreative is this motherfucker?

[–] SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Everything is about saying he named it. Dude wants to claim he created God.

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

He only has room in his head for like 10 words at a time. That's why he thinks remembering 5 in cognitive tests is a huge victory. It takes half his brain! And the other half is "America" "golf" "China" and "besty Putin."

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At some point he was told patriotism or some like thing polls well and his dementia addled brain locked onto it. On some level he understands he's dying, wants to leave his mark and can't get away with naming everything Trump as he's done his whole life, so "America" it is.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Saw a map earlier with Albuquerque renamed Charliequerque lol

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 35 points 5 days ago

I appreciate you sticking your neck out and posting this

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[–] fdnomad@programming.dev 98 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lets rename New Mexico to release the Epstein files instead

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[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Midterms in 14 days, everyone.

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[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 19 points 4 days ago (6 children)

'America' is becoming a slur.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 48 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Wasn't this just an Onion article like a couple months ago, and now it's on Nottheonion?

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 60 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Comically, New Mexico acquired its name long before "New Spain" became Mexico. Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).

Edit ended up reading the article, it is listed in the article further down as well "New Mexico’s name predates the founding of the United States back to the 16th century"

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago

Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).

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New Mexico predates the modern country of Mexico, yes.

But when Spanish Conquistadors first reached the Valle de Mexico, in the 1520s, it was the most densely populated urban area on the planet at over a million people.

That's why New Mexico includes "new", because it wasn't the original.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago

There are no adults coming to save us. It won't even be that surprising if this ends up happening. Certainly not becausw it makes a shred of sense, just because this timeline is satire.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (4 children)

"New America" doesn't even make sense. It is IN America, you dolt!

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sigh, of fucking course he did. Anyways, the capital of Ohio would love to change its name, but I'm sure if they tried he'd be ranting about keeping historical names for American places.

Edit: there's only one state that's actually worth renaming and that's Washington, solely because sharing a name with the country's capital results in confusion more often than you'd like, and I swear to shit it better not be renamed to America.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Were all the other empires throughout history this fucking retarded?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

Eventually, yes.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

we do not yet have a president. the guy claiming the title is a mob boss that stole it from us, feel free to ignore his specious edicts

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

Remember when we dismissed one of, if not the most, progressive president in our lifetime because he was old and "senile"?

And traded him out for whatever the rapist fuck this is.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The ignorance in America is too vast to describe without sounding like hyperbole.

Said something about Trump's dementia to a good friend last week, "Yeah, but Biden was pretty bad too wasn't he?"

There are exactly two people on my street that understand current events, both old black folks. My young black friend (above) and the white people of all ages are clueless. My Asian wife only knows about Trump through me and her friends and family back home who now hate him over gas prices. (See chart)

There's a monster chunk of our population that votes on vibes and how their personal life is going. Trump's 30% approval? That's not MAGA, that's the politically disconnected.

/rant

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[–] Nester@feddit.uk 28 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I legitimately saw this news floating around earlier and just assumed it was a parody article...

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[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

NM Republican ~~legislators~~ submissives passing legislation in 3...2...

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

"Regressives." Don't be associating subs with that trash.

[–] SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Trump is a freak. People who like him are weirdos. Enough said.

I cannot wait until this fucker is gone. The arrowhead of American failure was carved by people like Donald Trump.

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[–] Fives@discuss.online 21 points 5 days ago

Dude will talk about ANYTHING except the Epstein files.

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 22 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Calling it already, all Spanish names of towns and states will be forcefully translated to English. Prepare for Snowy, Tiles, Flowery, Aridzone and Caliphornia to be really peeved about this

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 17 points 5 days ago (6 children)
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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago

Took him long enough

[–] tostane@thelemmy.club 18 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Stop these ideas. America means the whole continent not USA. Trump just does not get what he is saying.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What a lousy POS. I'm going to throw in the age old question, "Where are the damn Epstein Files?"

[–] vr138@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You mean the Trump-Epstein Files?

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Lmfao holy shit. This is wild.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 4 days ago

Everyone else is going to have to change their countries names to not America, in order to help him keep track.

The UK will be old America, Australia will be far away America, New Zealand will be far away American 2

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