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Phlegmish posted:It's not awful, but I do think it suffers from a case of too many stars and perhaps also too many stripes. It's like they didn't know when to stop. Now take Liberia ??'s flag, it's like the American flag after a decent (flag) editor's had their say, which makes it superior in my eyes. 
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Yeah, the Texas and Chile flags are superior, too.
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It's a little odd that the Army Corps of Engineers has a flag, but it's largely just a flag version of their logo except that they've never built anything like that in their history.
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Safety Biscuits posted:"Clean and jerk off". KozmoNaut posted:"Public jerking zone" I didn't even think of how masturbatory it looks hell yeah
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Xelkelvos posted:It's a little odd that the Army Corps of Engineers has a flag, but it's largely just a flag version of their logo except that they've never built anything like that in their history. Yes they did! Sure, it was after they chose the logo, and it's usually like a pumping station or something, but they fuckin' love to build that castle whenever they can.
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Xelkelvos posted:It's a little odd that the Army Corps of Engineers has a flag, but it's largely just a flag version of their logo except that they've never built anything like that in their history. It's apparently based on Pershing Barracks at west point, from when the original version was a pin given to people from there.
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The U.S. flag is the flag of the East India Company, but, like, changed a little so the teacher wouldn’t notice. Imagine if a new nation ripped off the BP logo. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Aug 29, 2020 |
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And the EIC flag is just the Majapahit standard with a Union Flag slapped in the corner.
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Platystemon posted:The U.S. flag is the flag of the East India Company, but, like, changed a little so the teacher wouldn’t notice. I genuinely didn't know this, so I looked the flag up on wikipedia, and this is really great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_East_India_Company posted:The flag of the East India Company is considered to have inspired the 1775 Grand Union Flag, the first flag of the United States, as the two flags were of the same design.[3] This connection is attributed to numerous sources. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania once gave a speech endorsing the adoption of the Company's flag by the United States as their national flag. He said to George Washington of Virginia, "While the field of your flag must be new in the details of its design, it need not be entirely new in its elements. There is already in use a flag, I refer to the flag of the East India Company."[9] This was a way of symbolising American loyalty to the Crown as well as the United States' aspirations to be self-governing, as was the East India Company. Some colonists also felt that the Company could be a powerful ally in the American War of Independence, as they shared similar aims and grievances against the British government tax policies. Colonists therefore flew the Company's flag, to endorse the Company.[10]
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The United States of America: literally founded on the principle of corporate tax dodging.
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With all this stars and stripes chat I may as well share something I made a while ago.  This is hacked together, nothing is properly centered or aligned
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Cat Mattress posted:The United States of America: literally founded on the principle of corporate tax dodging. That, and corporate stanning.
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 The Saudi Aramco flag is good for its class.
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Count Roland posted:With all this stars and stripes chat I may as well share something I made a while ago. I'm all for it but canadians usually tell me they don't want us because we'll shoot everyone and vote away their healthcare
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm all for it but canadians usually tell me they don't want us because we'll shoot everyone and vote away their healthcare Ingrates.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm all for it but canadians usually tell me they don't want us because we'll shoot everyone and vote away their healthcare I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it!
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Count Roland posted:With all this stars and stripes chat I may as well share something I made a while ago. You should've put it in the northeast. Altho probably do it for one, every province is gonna want to have their own unique symbol. Imagine if Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia started wanting their stars to be different because they're commonwealths. Although come to think of it, I wonder what a footnote flag for all of the US's nonstate divisions would look like.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Altho probably do it for one, every province is gonna want to have their own unique symbol. Imagine if Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia started wanting their stars to be different because they're commonwealths. Suddenly you have me imagining what a shitshow it would be if every state got to design its own symbol to replace the star on the US flag... and they had to fight over which state went where. 
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SlothfulCobra posted:Altho probably do it for one, every province is gonna want to have their own unique symbol. Edgar Allen Ho posted:Ah, the former canadian flag's seal.
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Aug 29, 2020 23:16
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Look at this lovely loving flag:
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Jehde posted:Look at this lovely loving flag: Stolen Valor!
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SlothfulCobra posted:You should've put it in the northeast. I thought the top right may suggest superiority, so I didn't want to put it there. I considered adding in the territories but I couldn't decide on a symbol to represent them. I justify this by noting the US has territories that don't get stars on its flag.
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Morocco knows who to trust
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https://twitter.com/Troy_Johnson/status/1301194560215879687?s=19
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Never let Americans design a flag.
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I'm legitimately surprised that they didn't go for the worse of the two options.
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I thought for a second the ballot was for new flag/old flag, but luckily even Mississippi knows that it can't trust its own voters to not vote for the most racist option so if it loses it's just back to the drawing board for a new flag to put to voters later on. Maybe they should just keep saying no until something funny comes up
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I mean designing flags is fun, just refuse to approve a design so you can keep designing new ones
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aphid_licker posted:I mean designing flags is fun, just refuse to approve a design so you can keep designing new ones
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https://twitter.com/TheEpicDept/status/1301043609756749825
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one of SA's least favorite people made a front page article about flags https://www.somethingawful.com/news/flags-matter/ (dated July)
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Santa Fe’s seal misspells the city’s name. misplaced actue accent in “Asís”
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Platystemon posted:Santa Fe’s seal misspells the city’s name. Took me a minute. Either that or it was an incomplete Czech diacritic and it's San Francisco de Hashish in which case, sign me up!
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Most of Argentina's provinces have flags that are just a variant of the national flag, or at least have the national flag's weird shade of off-blue, but I dig Tierra Del Fuego's flag.
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I came across this today: Not the usual thread fare in that its a flag of an office instead of a place, but still interesting. There's the eagle, a standard american symbol. But perched on a globe, which seems odd for an internal US government position. And then there's a slew of stars scattered about everywhere. 13 total: for the 13 colonies? Its odd to see no attempt at symmetry or organization. The one above the eagle's head looks deliberately offset so as to not be centered. I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on the symbolism here.
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Count Roland posted:There's the eagle, a standard american symbol. But perched on a globe, which seems odd for an internal US government position. I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on the symbolism here. The eagle (and the pedestal below it) are from the Mace of the United States House of Representatives, which is a ceremonial symbol of office for the Sergeant at Arms of the House and is used as an indicator of whether the House is in session or not. It looks pretty fascist, but fasces and roman stuff wasn't as poisoned back in 1842 when this one was made. That said, the globe is much more pronounced on the flag with the blue oceans than it is on the mace itself. As for the stars, I have no idea. It's very wierd.
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In addition to the globe being weird, the projection is even weirder. It's centered on the Atlantic, and the West coast is basically hidden. It's a Eurocentric projection really, which seems odd when Usan maps are usually centered on the Americas.
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BonHair posted:In addition to the globe being weird, the projection is even weirder. It's centered on the Atlantic, and the West coast is basically hidden. It's a Eurocentric projection really, which seems odd when Usan maps are usually centered on the Americas.
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It's probably just the orientation of the globe on the mace, right?
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Tsaedje posted:It's probably just the orientation of the globe on the mace, right? That would make sense though I can't find an image which clearly shows it. Descriptions of it have the "western hemisphere" or "north america" facing forward, both of which don't completely fit the flag.
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