Anonymous blue__wave 2w

What a shame 🙄

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Anonymous OP 2w

What’s even the gotcha?

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

I knew it wasn’t gonna get downvoted. I wanted some upvotes

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Anonymous OP 2w

Ok lol I like Reddit grindset

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

Twitter Strat is to post like “I’ve never seen a woman look good in a sundress, prove me wrong” and he gets exactly what he wants

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 2w

Yeah, this is their american flag

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Anonymous #7 2w

What do you mean it’s gorgeous and creative

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Anonymous #8 2w

Wouldn’t say gorgeous, could see creative for the time though!

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Anonymous #9 2w

agree, glad we didn’t get stuck with some sort of seal on a sheet, its just busy? i guess? like its def distinguishable (unless ur comparing to liberia or malaysia at a distance) but could be better. i’ve got strong flag opinions tho

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Anonymous #7 2w

No I agree it could definitely be cooler than it is but I have no idea how to make it cooler than it is so I don’t say anything about it 😂

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Anonymous #9 2w

now you’ve got me playing around with a flag designer 😭

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Anonymous #7 2w

Share the results!!!

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Anonymous #9 2w

i have several and idk if yall want ur notifications to blow up lol

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Anonymous #7 2w

Drop them

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

ok i’ll pick two and give an explanation:

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Anonymous #7 2w

be nice i made these on my phone

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Anonymous #7 2w

anyways, concept comes from south africa’s flag with the Y shape representing diverse groups becoming one, i thought it aligned with the country motto of “e pluribus unum.” 5 stripes for the 5 major regions of the US (northeast, southeast, midwest, southwest, and west) and committee of 5 who drafted the declaration of independence. 3 stars to represent well, lots of things, branches of gov, federal/state/local, life/liberty/pursuit of happiness etc. etc.

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Anonymous #7 2w

the 6 star variant represents people from each continent who can make their homes here. i had to take into consideration the cultural fondness for the flag being the “stars and stripes” and the old red white and blue so had to keep those aspects

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Anonymous #7 2w

I like it

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Anonymous #7 2w

I’m a big vex head

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

ditto, well designed flags are so interesting. capturing the identity of a country/region while remaining both aesthetically pleasing and deeply symbolic is not easy but when done well it’s awesome. it’s part of why i’m not the hugest fan of the US flag, it seems relatively shallow comparatively?

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Anonymous #7 2w

I wouldn’t say shallow - I feel like it captures unique elements of the country. Like our federal system with the stars or the colonial history with the strips. I like your take with South Africa bc I think that’s a great thing about the U.S. that we can have so many different types of people here. I think there’s more shallow flags like I think Germany for example is just based off colors of soldiers who used to fight Napoleon. Which isn’t bad or anything.

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Anonymous #7 2w

But I think Germany has a pretty long and complicated history and that maybe doesn’t get at all of it.

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Anonymous #7 2w

Or Serbia I think is just the Russian Tri colors with the Serbian seal.

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

that’s fair, there’s a historical aspect to it all as well that leads to the symbols enduring. it’s a matter of when the history tied to the symbol is rough enough to want to move past it. and yeah one of americas coolest factors is that it’s the melting pot. hate to quote reagan but he got it right saying “—anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American” our diversity is our strength

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

serbia is part of that gang of european flags that get hard to distinguish if you don’t study them. i love a little flag family to establish an overarching regional identity but it can get too close!

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Anonymous #7 2w

I understand that sentiment to me it feels like part of history is you socially advance to a point where it’s hard to find figures from the past who aren’t greatly flawed. Do we just change flags every 100 years or so? (Actually sounds kinda cool when I say it out loud) but my point is, it feels like at some point you need to have this critical engagement of history of “well we need to make sure we celebrate these flawed people for things they did right” like through the symbols of flags.

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

i feel like for me it’s when a symbol stops representing its people or their values, like mississippi’s new flag is a good example. ideally you have a flag that can change with its people but if not then it’s worth changing (im also pro redesigning bedsheet flags lol)

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Anonymous #7 2w

Oh yeah for sure I hate flags that are just seals. State redesigns are so fun epically when it’s open to the public and you get to see people send in pictures of their dogs or communist versions of the state flag. I loved the shit posting when they redid Mississippi.

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

i literally looked at the minnesota submissions on the daily 😭 the one they chose wasn’t my fave but if i hadn’t seen all of the submissions i’d think it was a great choice

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Anonymous #7 2w

Then you get cringe right wing people trying to hold onto to the old flag and make it a culture war thing. Extremely obnoxious.

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Anonymous blue__wave 2w

the amount of submissions that were just the old flags was kind of hilarious

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Anonymous #7 2w

That’s dumb bc then it makes the shit post look better in comparison.

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