We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.




It is clear that we do not live in the United States of America anymore. Should we really consider changing its name to something else?

People get confused when I talk about yesterday's America versus today's America.

To me America stands for Freedom. I can't call what we have today America.

We really need a new name for the country, but I don't know what to call it.

[Edited on March 7, 2012 at 10:09 PM. Reason : .]

3/7/2012 10:07:37 PM

Dirtmcgirtistan

3/7/2012 10:09:45 PM

Nifongolia

3/7/2012 10:17:52 PM

Sexcopter

3/7/2012 10:22:05 PM

United States of Ericsona has a nice ring to it

I guess technically it would be United States of Leifa.

[Edited on March 7, 2012 at 10:23 PM. Reason : .]

3/7/2012 10:23:08 PM

OSSR, Obamas Soviet Socialist Republic

3/7/2012 10:26:09 PM

the American thing to do would be sell the naming rights to the highest bidder

3/7/2012 10:32:15 PM

turdtopia

3/7/2012 10:34:19 PM

the American [insert new country's name here] thing to do would be sell the naming rights to the highest bidder

3/7/2012 10:44:34 PM

Well, people will just donate their money to the SuperPAC pushing the name they'd prefer.

3/7/2012 10:53:01 PM

3/7/2012 11:00:11 PM

^you can't hate on walmart. that's on the wrong side of this class warfare issue buddy. be careful :p


also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

[Edited on March 7, 2012 at 11:06 PM. Reason : ,]

3/7/2012 11:04:04 PM

I think the more legitimate problem is not with the "America" part (it refers to that whole giant land-mass west of Europe and Africa that the western Europeans re-discovered during the Renaissance) but with the "States" part: Increasingly (and largely for the betterment of the union), the states have lost much of their autonomy to a drive for greater uniformity in the laws of the nation.

Maybe a better term would be "Federal Republic of America" (despite the reduction in state-level autonomy, our system of government is still federal); the second-level political divisions could still be called "states" (as they are in, for example, México, even though they never had that level of autonomy) but the memory that the first of those political divisions were once thought of as independent nation-states has sufficiently faded.

3/7/2012 11:04:41 PM

Ameritopia (once we get obama care)

3/7/2012 11:07:21 PM

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"Dirtmcgirtistan"

Osirusland

Ol Dirty Chinese Restaurant

Big Baby Jesusland.

3/7/2012 11:18:20 PM

Jesus, if this doesn't get locked there definitely isn't moderation in TSB

3/8/2012 12:08:49 AM

China, Western Annex

3/8/2012 12:08:53 AM

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3/8/2012 12:13:43 AM

And now you're not on topic, fucktard

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3/8/2012 12:14:19 AM

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3/8/2012 12:14:54 AM

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"China, Western Annex"

Relative to them, we're Eastern

also it might be more like "Chinese America" or something, kinda like how a little part of South America is called "French Guiana"

3/8/2012 12:28:06 AM

god made dirt, dirt bust ya ass

3/8/2012 1:11:13 AM

Just for slinging *nuh* I get a quarter a mil

3/8/2012 1:59:42 AM

Progressitopia

3/8/2012 5:39:59 AM

NuTopia

3/8/2012 7:28:00 AM

SoulGlow

3/8/2012 8:08:50 AM