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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

North Mexico

[–] [email protected] 24 points 23 hours ago

Dumbfuckistan

[–] JohnnyCanuck 2 points 14 hours ago

The Golden Whored

[–] JohnnyCanuck 2 points 14 hours ago

No, he did not. But I thought it was funny to say he was an immigrant, and it doubled as bait for people to call out that he wasn't. Hook, line, sinker?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

~~The United States of America~~

Kleptostan brought to you by Carl's Jr

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Fascistan

Ignorancia

Corpoland

Gun-ited Steaks

RetroPolice, like metropolis but it's a reactionary police state

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm partial to "Sideræl", myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Just got an image in my head of a map where it's just Xs dotted across the country titled X sandwiched between Canada and Mexico and the 'gulf of X (gulf of Mexico)'

"Just take interstate X southbound and get of at exit X towards X. If you see X you've give too far."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The DraftKingsTM United States of Trump

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Vinland” is what the Vikings who discovered the land named it. Not a bad name.

Were I to name it today I’d pick some foreign language version of “The Land of Pulling Up the Ladder” or “The Land of Crabs in a Bucket”.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

how about turkish, Yukarıya Çekilen Merdivenlerin Ülkesi (Land Of Pulling Up The Ladder)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Welcome to Costco I love you.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Disneyland.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The vikings were there first (after the native Americans), so I'd go with Greater Norway.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Forvestlandet

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

The incorporated states of Northern America ltd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Did Amerigo Vespucci migrate to North America or did he just pass through?

[–] ILikeBoobies 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Han Dynasty would be funny, not least because it doesn’t solve the problem

There’s also the Prince joke “Land formally known as USA”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

It's "formerly." Whether or not he wore a suit didn't change his legal name back from the symbol

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Break up the union and pick the name of the most powerful government that existed within the bounds of every state before the land was occupied by any old-world government.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Dumbfuckistan

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The Bada Bing Republic

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mountain Dew presents: Freedom Country - Brought to you by United Healthcare.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

South Canada.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago
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North Mexico

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The United States of Moronica

no offense to actual morons intended

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator 8 points 1 day ago

None taken.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Wendigo

It’s an Algonquin cryptid / monster with an insatiable hunger for human flesh and a love of murder. Generally greedy and evil. Also known to smell bad.

Honors our native heritage and says something about our beloved country’s strength of character.

[–] ininewcrow 22 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The more I read about it and learned about these stories as a kid from my parents and Elders ... the more I realize that it is also a metaphor or life lesson about who we are as people and humanity as a whole.

Wendigo in many legends was originally just a man or woman like you or me or anyone. They are infected or affected by a mysterious force and changed to become a hunter of people. Many of the legends talk about how Wendigo is basically just out hunting, doing things like a hunter does, tracking, following, hiding, creeping towards their prey ... but the prey are humans, people, families, children, etc. They are intelligent, speak, understand, communicate, can trick people but they can also be tricked, they can also be dumb, silly, wise or completely wild.

The metaphor is that we are all capable or prone to becoming infected with dark forces if we allow them and change us into beings that will take from others and even kill them to enrich ourselves or prolong our lives.

Many believe that Wendigos still live and prey on people all over the world ... but instead of hunting and preying on people in the forests and wilderness ... they live and work in corporations and governments.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Mississippiland

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Whatever the Cherokee word for "stolen land" is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Or, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed.

Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.

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[–] Knoxvomica 6 points 1 day ago

Red, white and blue land obviously.

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