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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Why does anyone care? Countries and cities are named after the most banal stuff anyway. Captain Cook found a virgin continent teeming with bizarre and deadly flora and fauna and named it after Wales. The Aleut couldn't find a more imaginative name for their homeland than "object to which the action of the sea is directed".
edited 29th Jul '15 4:57:34 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei@last page: Technicalities! Tectonic plaques aren't relevant to landmass naming. Even in dancing, Waacking does the same things better. Sorry, Tonics, but nobody loves you.
Then we have it! Congratulations, Columbians! And Britcols had better start distinguishing themselves by affecting a PR accent. I mean an RP. Is RP PR or does it have too many classist connotations?
edited 29th Jul '15 5:00:51 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
If anything, it's the other way around - we name the plates after the stuff on top of them that we had already named.
Also, if you need an English-language demonym for people from the USA that is more specific, Wikipedia claims that specifying "US-American" is acceptable practice.
edited 29th Jul '15 5:02:48 PM by Balmung
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Works for me. Sounds nice, too. In Spanish that would be Euamericano. Wey! Che! Qué gracioso suena eso!
I'm saying it sounds gracious. You know, elegant. Smooth.
Well, that ship would mostly carry wool, wouldn't it?
edited 29th Jul '15 5:06:00 PM by TheHandle
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I think that's just being pedantic.
When you're speaking in Spanish, you say estadounidense (if you're feeling like being polite). And that's only because that's the correct term.
In any other language (I think), American is fine and not wrong.
I mean, it's not like we ever need to lump all the people from the continent(s) together for anything, like we do with Europe and their union, or Africa because having 54 countries means nothing to our uneducated minds.
edited 29th Jul '15 5:10:13 PM by Cid
They did that in Bioshock. Twice. Because fuck yeah.
Rapture's actually a really fitting name, given that it was started by zealots going Galt avant-la-lettre.
But it is kinda ugly, and I've seen enough Raptor Jesus jokes to know where this would end up ending.
No! TRUMP FOR PREZ!
edited 29th Jul '15 5:15:19 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hey we are one of the largest countries on Earth. We will not be some libertarian micro nation, we will become a libertarian hell hole of massive proportions, because everything in this country is big,besides the social safety net but that is for pussies and commies.
RE: Yankee
YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)
edited 29th Jul '15 5:22:39 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Okay killjoy.
So to summarise a new england university tried to ban the use of the word American. However it won't and can't be changed cause there's no better alternative.
Say what you want about America, but at least we don't need to import water and wear gas masks to go outside.
Also sometimes those needles car trips are necessary, especially if you live out in the country.
They could also upgrade the 50 odd year old power grid.
edited 29th Jul '15 6:06:51 PM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.China's environmental policy record isn't the best, but they're currently one of the world leaders in green energy along with Germany and Denmark.
More on topic, the US has plenty of opportunities to take command of alternative energy sources that are both cost-effective and better for the biosphere, but it's still not accepted as a general act of common duty beyond driving a Prius and starting a compost heap for fertilizer.
A lot of our energy inefficiency and pollution can be curbed by trival, easy habits like turning off unused lights, not leaving TV sets and game systems on standby unless you need to (that little red light on your Playstation 3 is still hitting your meter), not leaving faucets running while we're brushing our teeth or applying shampoo, and not using our cars to run errands that are less than 3 miles away.
edited 29th Jul '15 5:58:43 PM by Aprilla
Pretty sure we refer to the people from the state of Washington as Washingtonians. Calling us all that only makes sense if you want to rename the whole damn country after our first president. Not even sure why that option was brought up.
Did we really need to spend two pages discussing what we call ourselves when it's not like people are actually all that concerned about it?
We have more than enough people who are too lazy to write the words "you," "are," and "for." Replacing American with an even longer word, however accurate or applicable it might be, seems like an exercise in futility to me.
Also, outside of certain regions, most people identify themselves as American first, and (state) resident second if not lower.
Also also, I totally blame Azsur for this entire derail. Clearly we need to invade Costa Rico for this fiasco, and we already know they have no means of resistence!
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw

Why don't we call the nation Columbia?
Oh, wait, that name's already taken. Dammit, I want my Motorized Patriot!
I guess if we were to rename it, we could call it "The Federation Of Pilgrim colonies" FOP. We're all FO Ps.
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