• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    They didn’t change it. Only usa recognizes it as such. That’s like me saying your name is now Tony. Doesn’t make it true. Unless your name actually is Tony, I suppose…

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      That’s strange. Everyone’s always called me Tony. I don’t know when it started… from a very young age at least; my parents always called me Tony. So I just started calling myself that too. It’s on all my gov. documents: “Tony”. Deep down I’ve always know it was a lie though. My real name’s Sony. Why won’t people call me my true name? My name’s not actually Tony, even though that’s what everyone calls me, it’s actually Sony, but no one will use that name. They still continue to call me Tony. It’s almost like… you never get to choose your name. It’s just given to you and you’re stuck with it, regardless of how you might feel about it.

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      That’s like me saying your name is now Tony. Doesn’t make it true. Unless your name actually is Tommy, I suppose…

      What I expect to be an ironic auto correct error has really highlighted Trump’s opinion on renaming things.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      That’s so backwards. Your name is whatever you say your name is. What is written in a government database isn’t your name, it’s an opaque identifier.