• ToxicWaste@lemm.ee
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    well google always displays the locally official names and borders. so just business as usual.

    but why does the president of the usa get to decide what places are called? isn’t there a cartography department or something?

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      Yes. The United States Board on Geographic Names is the group within the Department of the Interior which handles these matters. They are a part of the executive branch. I suspect that you can follow a chain of delegated authorities through that board, up the civil service hierarchy, landing on the desk of the President.

      This is an example of the system not accounting for, or being ambivalent about, the election of someone to that office with a fascist ideology.

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        fair enough. i guess the usa never did a great job ar limiting their presidents power. that way he can extend his reach way further down, than he should…

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          If all he with his remaining term is just randomly rename stuff, I think we will consider ourselves to have gotten off lightly.