OP is attempting to draw a connection between renaming international bodies of water with longstanding, internationally recognized names with renaming a few small local hills, valleys and landmarks, ignoring size and scale and the motivation behind the renaming.
$PRESIDENT asked people to call $PLACE by $NEWNAME for political reasons. Some people and companies did, including Google and Apple.
By using the words "folded to the will of their country’s king" that poster is implying the President did an illegitimate power grab and the companies ought to have kept the old name on their maps.
The reply is pointing out that if this was really the issue, people should have applied the same logic in the prior instance when PRESIDENT="Biden" and PLACE="Squaw Harbor, Alaska".
I don't think it's intended to be a joke at all, rather it's suggesting the line of reasoning is inconsistent / hypocritical.
We should have a society where every website operator should be able to make an honest living selling ads to everybody who wants information. Instead our public discourse is so messy and angry that any action or inaction gets labelled as an outrageous, inflammatory political choice that pisses off half the country. (This paragraph is my personal opinion.)
"Republicans buy sneakers, too." -- Michael Jordan
Huh? People weren't upset about Biden renaming shit because it wasn't intended to upset people. Trump's decisions were quite literally intended to piss people off because he's a narcissist and can't stand to be out of the spotlight for 45 seconds.
OP is attempting to draw a connection between renaming international bodies of water with longstanding, internationally recognized names with renaming a few small local hills, valleys and landmarks, ignoring size and scale and the motivation behind the renaming.
$PRESIDENT asked people to call $PLACE by $NEWNAME for political reasons. Some people and companies did, including Google and Apple.
By using the words "folded to the will of their country’s king" that poster is implying the President did an illegitimate power grab and the companies ought to have kept the old name on their maps.
The reply is pointing out that if this was really the issue, people should have applied the same logic in the prior instance when PRESIDENT="Biden" and PLACE="Squaw Harbor, Alaska".
I don't think it's intended to be a joke at all, rather it's suggesting the line of reasoning is inconsistent / hypocritical.
We should have a society where every website operator should be able to make an honest living selling ads to everybody who wants information. Instead our public discourse is so messy and angry that any action or inaction gets labelled as an outrageous, inflammatory political choice that pisses off half the country. (This paragraph is my personal opinion.)
"Republicans buy sneakers, too." -- Michael Jordan
Huh? People weren't upset about Biden renaming shit because it wasn't intended to upset people. Trump's decisions were quite literally intended to piss people off because he's a narcissist and can't stand to be out of the spotlight for 45 seconds.