A while back, I saw someone get angry and lecture a person who called this place on the map "America".
He "educated" them that "America is a continent. This country is the United States!".
I guess he's another poor victim of the govschools.
I gently pointed out that the continent is North America, but there's no continent that is simply "America".
I should have gone on to say there's also a South America.
America is this country- the region, the land, resources, people, etc., as set apart according to agreements between political criminals for purposes of plundering without getting in each other's way too much.
The United States [sic] is the government currently ruling over (violating and plundering) the people of America.
No, I never checked back to see how he reacted to this news. Probably exactly as you'd imagine.
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