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And it's *really* embarrassing

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Do you think the Gulf of Mexico should be called the Gulf of America because more of the coastline is in America, or do you want to use the familiar term for it?

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European can mean simultaneously people living in Europe, and descendants of people from Europe who live all over the world

We also call it America without any confusion.

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German can also describe people in Austria. South African could theoretically refer to half the continent. Greek is just the roman word for a single Hellenic tribe. None of these terms are precise, except that we know what they mean.

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But we also try to avoid dropping the most important word when it's at the end of a phrase, but we do that with United States of America anyway.

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That's sorta what I'm getting at. We don't use precise language to describe people from different countries, we use familiar labels that mostly come from weird arbitrary sources. And one of those familiar words is American.

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We could call Mexico the United States. It would be a perfectly accurate description of the country. We just don't. And that's fine.

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Oh I do know this. I know we call Mexico Mexico, and I know we call America America. I just know that the fact we call them that is completely arbitrary, as are the names of every other country in the world

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Why is it not the United States?

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We do call Mexico the United Mexican States. Not in casual conversation, but that's the name of the country. And because 'United States' is a form of political organization, not just a name, Mexico *is* a United States, just as much as it is a country in the Americas. Both are equally true.

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Polish just means 'people of the fields', but not every person who lives in a field is Polish.

I also think it's silly to only use names for groups of people that are specific and accurate to them. Basically none of the etymology works out like that. British refers to people outside of Britain, European refers to people outside of Europe. Hungarian doesn't even mean Hungarian.

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Moke Wob @lolaverses.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Here's the thing that gets me about that though. Mexicans, say are 'Americans' in the literal sense, they live in the America's. They're also equally literally 'USians', because they live in the United Mexican States.

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Todays comic news; In a bold strategy to get anyone to read Infinity comics, Marvel has decided to rape Magik

may @maysuser.name · 25/11/2025

Reposted by Moke Wob

lesbianism is kinda like the judaism of sexualities the way it's both gender and sexuality

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Moke Wob @lolaverses.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

You're forgetting of course that the Northern Irish secretly control the world

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Moke Wob @lolaverses.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Maybe the real Charlie Kirk was the friends we made along the way.

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Moke Wob @lolaverses.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

A fair point, but I reject reality in favor of a funnier one I've come up with in my head.

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Moke Wob @lolaverses.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

What you don't know is that that 'dumbass' is actually just another hard working stripper spending the cash they got thrown to them.

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Moke Wob @lolaverses.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

They should make women that are freezing cold, for hot summer nights.

On the plus side, it can't run Starfield, which I do appreciate.

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Fallout 3 has never successfully run on any computer I've ever owned, but luckily it's available on fucking premium, because if there's something I want to do every month it's give Sony my had earned money.

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I try to play Skyrim? Filled with unwanted creation club content I can't uninstall. Fallout 4? Even worse content I can't uninstall.

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I check to see if they have the original version of Oblivion, they do but I can't buy it I have to subscribe to their shitty fucking premium service. I come to these pigs with money in my hand to purchase their products and they laugh in my face.

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No I will not buy a ps5 to play a dolled-up version of a game old enough to drink in Canada. My ps4 is like eight years old and has crashed multiple times losing all of my data, and it can still run The Last of Us 2 like it's a Renaissance painting, if I ever replace it, it will be with another ps4.

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