A researcher from Russia’s presidential historical society has proposed renaming the Gulf of Finland to the “Gulf of St. Petersburg,” citing U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as precedent.
@hanse_mina
Google's supine response to Trump opens the floodgates to these requests.
@hanse_mina I don't think a saint was involved.
Tsar Peter (would Ts be a thing??) and then after Petrograd, Leningrad.
And I think that's what the city in the last bit of it is again, recently.
@hanse_mina Imagine a world where the orcish brutes never reached the Baltic Sea at the turn of 18th century, never occupied the ancient Estonian and Fennic lands there, thus never learned about *muskets* which soon enabled the orcs to raze through Central Asia all the way across the continent...
HIstory is weird and often sad. The orcs can for their own internal propaganda rename Europe -> Schmeurope for all I care.
What matters is how we resist this shit from spreading further. And maybe, just maybe, figure out ways to reverse the shitty trends.