Apologies for more trump stuff on your feed, this hurt me personally.

I was born in Alaska, and I have never heard a single person there call it mckinley, despite the vast majority of my time there having been before it was “officially” recognized as Denali.

Now this rat bastard wants to change it, despite people calling it Denali long before any name was written down for the mountain. His greed is serving to lessen our culture in the popular eye.

P.S.

I know that the federal name isn’t literally “the official name”, but I’d be surprised if this doesn’t cause a lot of people outside the state to start calling it that.

mckinley is lowercase on purpose

Edit: I want to mention that this is not entirely serious, as can be seen in me calling him a ‘rat bastard’. This is obviously false, as he grew up in a loving rat family.

ARGH

  • Majorllama@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Free speech time. Keep calling it Denali and in 4 years you can petition whoever to get it officially put back. Same goes for the gulf of Mexico. I’m gonna keep calling it the gulf of Mexico because that’s what it’s been called my entire goddamn life.

    On that note Pluto is a still a planet in my heart. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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      9 days ago

      The Pluto one I finally understand, a science show pointed it that more recently there were 100s of other Pluto sized objects orbiting our sun, so they either had to add 100s more to match Pluto status, or demote Pluto to planetoid to avoid all the others getting status.

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        9 days ago

        Oh I know why Pluto was demoted, but I am choosing to live in denial for the rest of my life.

        Plus I can’t stop using the Pluto line from psych as a conversation changer. “You hear what they did to Pluto? Messed up”.