@aby
We're just lucky he hasn't insisted we all call it the American Ocean.

@hypostase - this isn't about Trump.

It's about journalists not knowing what NATO stands for while still writing about it.

@aby
I do get that. I also wouldn't be surprised if many US citizens thought the same thing. If it's the New York Times, I'd've been disappointed in the before times, but I could hardly be surprised now.

@hypostase @aby there was once a time where the NY times was a reputable organization. Then a billionaire bought it.

Billionaires ruin everything.

@hypostase @aby It will be called the American Ocean once America has sunk beneath it, like Atlantis (mythologically).
@villavelius
Tuesday, then?
@aby
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@villavelius
I am not a US citizen, so I try not to say that, with that level of detail, and seriously, out loud, usually.

Don't disagree with the analysis, though. Only I don't really see a significant change in direction over the course of my lifetime (50 some years) Bush I had limited goals Bush II, didn't, the rest this millennium were the continuity programme.

Somewhere else I said something about words we now have in our vocabulary like Agent Orange, and rendition. Unless there is a fundamental turn around, a full 180, if it's not Tuesday, then it's just a matter of when.
@aby

@aby

Have they mentioned the North American Space Agency yet?

@PhilthyPierre @aby be right back, keep getting a #North America error for mixing data types in excel

@PhilthyPierre @aby

Or NOAA, the National Organization for American Americans?

@aby Wow, just wow. Is AI doing ALL the headlines these days? πŸ˜‚
@aby they could rename it "North Atlantic Treaty Organization" then πŸ™„

@aby

Did you circle the wrong word in "North American Trump Organisation"? πŸ€ͺ

@aby
NATO was formed and named in a time when the US had a president that didn't have to make everything about himself or some stupid 'America First' ideology.

Hard to imagine, I know.

#MAGA-BS

@aby

The #NewYorkTimes getting something so fundamentally wrong in a headline suggests the quality of the "news analysis" that follows.