https://x.com/SecDef/status/1889119135759585562
Bragg is back! I just signed a memorandum reversing the naming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. pic.twitter.com/EGgZNHK72x
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) February 11, 2025
Oh well. It'll trigger reddit BLM types anyway.
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As mentioned above somewhere: This is not the first time, not even for race.
When JFK got capped
they renamed the NASA operation at Cape Canaveral the Kennedy Space Center. This is the least controversial thing you could possibly do. Then LBJ or somebody thought it would be great to name the whole place Cape Kennedy. Several years go by and the locals rise up and change it back because all this did was confuse the heck out of people. But most of the important space stuff happened when it was "Cape Kennedy" so you hear that name constantly any time historical footage is being played.
Even my dad asked me to explain this bullshit, and I could only answer him because I had recently looked it up because I had spent decades being confused by it too.
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Everyone in Florida calls it cape Canaveral
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Yeah I am a midwestcel and I have always heard it referred to as Cape Canaveral here too.
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It's always been Cape Canaveral.
Never heard of Kennedy in my life.
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Obviously that's in North Carolina.
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Hard to change the name of shit people use all the time—like a building? Fine, most people won't work in that building for their whole lives, so you'll constantly have a refresh of people, and about every few years or so, you'll have a nearly complete reset of anybody who works in that area.
But a geographic area—people live there their whole lives, so if you suddenly rename Los Angeles to AlexJonesville, you're not going to get much traction.
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Happens all the time. Halba in Syria. Lots of people have been trying to change its name for 3000 years and none of them have stuck. Every city that Alexander conquered has a Greek name and most of them didn't stick. Well, except for a few, like Alexandria.
I worked for a company that did business with a pyramid scheme. The first time they came to us, they were called "Taft Industries". A few months go by and "Disruptive Marketing International" hires us. Exactly the same people. They kept coming back and they kept changing their name, but we always just called them Taft. Most of the time I didn't even know what name they were using.
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