r/PoursTea 5h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ What's in a Name? A Lot Actually!

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u/MosquitoValentine_ 5h ago

The Great Lakes came from indigenous tribes. It wasn't named after the Canadian province, but these morons wouldn't know that would they...

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u/no_kids-and-3_money 5h ago

The last step in genocide: erasing the memory of the people that used to live here by changing the names of things.

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u/PhatCatTax 3h ago

Well... on the upside, most nations that start electing incredibly corrupt people collapse within a few decades. So... in that sense, the new government that forms from the ashes might rename all the things we have renamed, and night choose to revert it all.

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u/no_kids-and-3_money 2h ago

Yeah, and this is open corruption of the highest degree.