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Google and Apple just updated the name of an international body of water based on the demand of a single person throwing his weight around. No one asked for this change. It has no backing by locals. It wasn’t even a thing. This wasn’t a culture war issue, it’s a flexing of power by an old delusional man. AP has been the only corporate organization to stand up to this nonsense that I’ve seen.

Not to mention the cdc scrubbing and such that judges are now overturning and demanding information returned to the public.

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A great example of the many system abuses over the past several weeks.

People did not vote for the Dark Enlightenment nor the Butterfly Revolution. Want to gut USAID? Work with Congress and pass a law. Want to strip Social Security? Samesies.

That is the rule of law. If you are a representative of the people, you follow the law.

> Want to gut USAID? Work with Congress and pass a law. Want to strip Social Security? Samesies.

Heck, want to get rid of the useless penny (like we Canadians did years ago)? Change the law:

* https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5111

Of all the wrong things Trump/Musk are doing , renaming the Gulf was arguably the most benign. But it does send a powerful signal of “I can do whatever the f I want”

Also kind of sends a signal, "I am even pettier than you imagined."

I ask again, where are the adults?

Dead. Fox News+Republican Orwellian state on one side, media competition for attention on the other.

are you sure about that? it makes it so that he can approve drilling in the gulf because it's not named the same. or at least that's his idea to subvert biden's drilling ban... we'll see if it is the case.

interesting; hadn't thought of that angle. but he could just do an EO to reverse the drilling ban, as he did with Alaska. I don't think he needs to rename the gulf of Mexico to accomplish that.

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