Idiocracy, the MTG edition

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Minutes after President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that his incoming administration would be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican and Trump ally, said she would be introducing legislation to fund the name change in maps, with the military and with the Federal Aviation Administration.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/gulf-of-mexico-name-change-trump-34741b51

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Let’s follow the lead of Gamal Abdel Nasser, a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Persian Gulf has been used throughout history, in maps, documents and diplomacy, from the ancient Persians, whose empire dominated the region, to the Greeks and the British.
The push to call it the Arabian Gulf gathered steam during the Pan-Arab nationalist movement of the late 1950s, propelled by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, the historian Lawrence G. Potter wrote in the “The Persian Gulf in History.” In the 1960s, Arab countries made Arabian Gulf compulsory, and the Gulf Cooperation Council uses it.
The United Nations uses Persian Gulf. A 2006 paper by a United Nations working group found unanimity in historical documents on the term, which it said was coined by the Persian king Darioush in the fifth century B.C.
As far as the United States government is concerned, the body of water is the Persian Gulf, per the Board on Geographic Names. Yet the Navy has used Arabian Gulf for at least 25 years, since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, said Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a spokesman for the United States Fifth Fleet, whose headquarters are in Bahrain.
“It is commonly understood to be a friendly gesture of solidarity and support for our host nation of Bahrain and our other Gulf Cooperation Council partners in the region to use the term they prefer,” Commander Stephens wrote in an email.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/world/middleeast/persian-gulf-arabian-gulf-iran-saudi-arabia.html