America has nukes. This is America's world and everyone just lives in it.
(Deeper context, America's nuclear doctrine is madman theory where we will absolutely use nuclear weapons if pushed, to get our way, so the rest of the world is our hostage)
2 and 3 are not really viable and Google already had a policy in place for disputed territories. For example look at Kashmir, it gets rendered differently if you are in India vs Pakistan, so I mean Google employees just shrug and implement the same thing. If America wants to have a temper tantrum and call it the Gulf of America, like fine whatever, it's stupid, just mark it in the system as such and move on.
I mean yes from the outside you'd think "it's just a forum" but I mean if you spend multiple hours a day on it and connect with tons of people that share your world view, yeah it means a lot.
Literally the week of the 2024 election, something snapped in the collective minds of the admins and mods of Hexbear. They just woke up one day and decided to implement a ton of changes that I argue destroyed the site.
I deleted my account on Hexbear and took a break. I would still browse a little bit while not logged in, but eventually settled on joining an instance that was federated with Hexbear so I could still follow some of the communities, but with some emotional distance.
lemmy.ml is a special case that I had forgotten about. As you say, it's because Dessalines is on that instance