Comment by JumpCrisscross
2 months ago
It should be Lake America (Lake Ontario) in America and Lake Ontario elsewhere.
Blindly relying on GNIS is silly, particularly when that dependency is forced on users.
(Also, what fucking law exempts GNIS edits from the APA? Can a Democrat President just rename everything in every red state to random strings?)
For others who didn't know, the APA is the Administrative Procedure Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act
Google doesn't think anyone is going to break them up. The only solution is to break them up when republicans lose power.
>Can a Democrat President just rename everything in every red state to random strings?
A Democrat president must do this to teach the Republican strategists, representatives and voters consequences of actions. Then they will be ready for 'sensible compromise, reform and limits on executive power'.
In what sense are these renamings attacks on Democrats specifically?
The entire Trump Presidency has been a uniquely partisan fiasco. I live in Wyoming—we have almost zero ICE enforcement. The brown shirts are being deployed to cities run by Democrats in states run by Democrats.
I’m not advocating for counterbattery partisanship per se. But if demonstration is literally what it takes to get this to stop (or escalate to a point where everyone agrees it’s a crisis), so be it. At the very least, someone should be promising this to primary voters to get the conversation going.
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