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  • Yeah, I’m pretty sure the United States can’t change the name of a body of water that’s shared between multiple countries. If it’s not that, it still hasn’t gotten any sort of congressional approval.
    Edit: Lake Michigan is the only one that’s fully within the US. The others are patrolled by both the US Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard, both have the ability to arrest anyone on either side of the border. The state governments that border the lakes have some power over them, but they’re held in trust for public use. The International Joint Commission resolves any disputes regarding them. I’m not quite sure what would have to go into changing the name of Lake Ontario, but it would at least require Canadian approval and US congressional approval, perhaps even approval from the state of New York and the province of Ontario. Oh yeah, this is also completely stupid and should under no circumstances actually happen.







  • There’s some different race related history stuff in the US, but this sort of thing doesn’t just happen in your church. Typically, Southern churches don’t really like queer people, doesn’t matter if they’re black churches or white churches. White churchgoing Christians also have an added element of racism. Because the white Christians also tend to be racist, they’re more likely to like Reagan and the Republican party that’s existed since then. Black people tended to vote for the Republican party for decades after the Civil War because it was the party that Abraham Lincoln was part of. Partially due to the New Deal’s programs, many black people switched to the Democratic party and stuck with it, likely due to social programs that help many members of the community, such as food stamps. There’s plenty of other examples of people within the Democratic party that don’t like certain parts of its platform, such as many Catholics and abortion rights. It’s also pretty easy to find queer people that are racist as fuck. People being part of one minority group has less bearing on their biases as one might hope. Hopefully none of this is horribly wrong.