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The federal renamings of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario are absolutely dumb culture war moves.

But referring to the US simply as "America" domestically isn't - politicians across the political spectrum do that. If a democratic administration had launched a chatbot, I would be unsurprised to see it called America.gov

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If a democrat president had done it I would have the exact same critique, I don’t really care who does it. Though if we’re going to speculate, I would speculate that a Democrat administration would know better and would strike that from the list of possible names. The main difference though is that they would get the benefit of the doubt if they don’t spend so much time doing vanity-related renames. The context matters here. This administration should not ever be extended any assumption of good faith. They are incredibly calculated with these kinds of decisions. Culture war tactics were a huge part of what got them the presidency in the first place

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