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You are correct about the first three, and wrong about the fourth (renaming obviously works, failed attempts are exceptions, not the rule). But so what? My enemies keep doing it. How do you propose to get them to stop it? Tit for tat is the only strategy I can think of that has any chance of success. Got any better ideas? Unless you do, I support renaming, and I think Trump should keep doing it.
Not only should he keep doing it, he should start dismantling their stupid monuments like that giant floating turd.
Rename Martin Luther King Boulevard to Martin Luther Boulevard :-)
Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
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How does Trump renaming things disincentivize your enemies from doing so when they get power? I don't see it. If anything, you're making the job (of plundering the budget) easier for them as now there are more things to rename back.
For a person who values the status quo historical names, political renaming looks like the two sides pulling things into the orthogonal directions, not opposite ones. Just because I wouldn't want Putin renaming Moscow to Vladgrad doesn't mean I should accept "New Kyiv" instead (or vice versa).
A better move would be to find something they care about that hasn't been renamed recently, and rename that. That's more tit for tat than reversal is, but requires that they actually care about something.
Though imagining a sign splitting the difference by saying "Denali (D)/McKinley (R) National Park" is a bit funny.
As always Northern Ireland has beaten you to the culture war punch. It's Londonderry if you are Protestant/Unionist and Derry if you are Catholic/Nationalist so the both sides version is Derry/Londonderry (read "Derry stroke Londonderry") or Stroke City to make fun of the issue.
"A visible sign of the dispute to the visitor is in the road signs;[108] those pointing to the city from the Republic refer to it as Derry (and in Irish, Doire), whilst signs in Northern Ireland use Londonderry. It is not uncommon to see vandalised road signs—the "London" part of the name spray painted over on "Londonderry" road signs by nationalists,[108] or occasionally "London" added to "Derry" signs by unionists.[108]"
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