https://old.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/1h5lmil/on_the_pre1994_south_african_flag_why_was_the/
anyway circlejerk aside, if anyone ever gave a shit about why the flag looked as it did
Anyway once the actual adults and vexi-neurodivergents were done discussing the ramifications and intent of the design of the flag, the commie/shitlib started screetching about the evil nature of the flag, rather than discussing the design and historic nature of its origin ect - Bascially how Anarkiddies and tankies ruined /r/PropagandaPosters
"Because, much like the state it represented, it is ugly AND wrong." 
"Man, I know the Apartheid sucked, but the flag alone is a crime against Humanity." 
The rest of the normally liberal, but non-r-slurred vexi-neurodivergents 
aren't having this performative shitlibbery. 
WHY AM I BEING DOWNMARSEYD, IM ONLY BEING HISTRONIC AND POOPING UP THE NORMALLY CALM DISCUSSION OF THE THREAD 
Anyways, I've heard discussion from too many wingcucks to know how to properly analyze the design philosophy of particularly infamous or powerful and influential countries and nation states.
I've heard commies state the US flags is badly designed, which i disagree with, the stars and stripes are bold and easy to replicate, while still only using 3 colours
I've heard !anticommunists state that the Soviet flags are bad, simply because they despise communists, rather than engaging upon the design and intent of symbolism, which just 
me at the teenagers of modern /r/PropagandaPosters
What's YOUR favorite flag or symbol discussion, often railroaded by wingcucks and histronics online dramatards?
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The American state flag redesigning. The states changed their flags to modern designs to approval of online "vexigologists", the true believers in The Five Principles of Flag Design. The new flags were supposed to be "simple and easy to read", less "problematic" and more "topical" to the state.
And predictably, many of the redesigns were bland as heck. Turns out following a template gives you uninspired designs most of the time.
Those are some old, and some new flags. Funnily enough the first flag is the most interesting redesign, but it breaks two of the five principles, since no way a child draws that flower and it contains text.
Not so long ago Premodernist released a video criticizing the movement, which I found quite interesting and is the main reason I still remember this is a thing.
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Flag Redditoid intellectuals are subhuman morons.
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IT'S ALREADY SARCASTIC
do I need to put a fricking /s/s/s/s/s/s for you r-slurs
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So many modern redesigned flags look like a corporate logo.
The "5 principles of vexiollogy" and its consequences
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it's also arbitrary theory that was used to try and understand why certain flags/symbols had staying power
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bottom left looks like HRE prince
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And bottom right looks like communist Macedonia.
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In HOI4, yes. Real commies are fricking boring.
Although it could have been commie naval ensign
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There's only one flag I love
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Oh wow an Austrian dramanaut
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I love Austria too.
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It looks like a red velvet cake, a flavour I find overrated.
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This version mogs it
(Perfect color combination
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This isn't our soviet republic flag though. I have no idea which one this is, ours had waves
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Lmao, I confused your microstate with Lithuanian SSR
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Say that to my face and not online and see what happens then, b-word. God I hate germs so much. I can imagine him snickering as he typed this in his 5m^2 coal-heated apartment in Schwanzheimbergstadt. "Sure got him with this one" he thought, believing himself to be a comedic genius. "But enough internet for today, I should go buy myself some raw pork spread while Ibrahim fricks my wife".
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Not a bad Idea!
!eurochads we often forget our baltic brΓΆthers existance. Therefore I will buy some gnomes to put them on the deep end of my coal heated garden
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They are so life-like. Beautiful Baltic representation.
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I like the left one
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Helped to defeat the Nazis.
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!marseyartists very rare flag Marsey. Can't be submitted. Guaranteed to appreciate on the collector's market.
See also:
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I'm gonna get one and then try to piggyback off of one of Trace's posts that's retweeted by Elon. And then I'm gonna turn it into one of those crypto doge coins and get rich!
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Were they allowed to tho? Several divisions of black African troops served in Ethiopia and Burma and they did just fine. I got a feeling that CERTAIN PEOPLE
in South Africa didn't want that.
On the other hand the South Africans did some pretty amazing stuff in WW2 and these guys weren't all onboard with apartheid.
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Didn't the South African government throw a fit and refuse to join the war? Until His Majesty reminded them who's boss, of course.
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It was divided into two halves and the neutral side was quickly suppressed by the pro war side. This is my understanding after skimming the Wikipedia article
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why none of you fricks respect it if i give sincere answers
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Did you answer this already because I didn't see it
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/r/vexillology is super lame. Filled to the brim with leftoid posts going like "what is this obvious neo nazi/rightoid flag in my neighborhood?" (that I'm not convinced they just didn't get off google images) as bait so people can act outraged about it and give them upmarseys while crying about how evil they are. Much like /r/askhistorians, they ruin everything they touch.
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ask historians jumped the shark when I saw them defending "non-binary" genders in ancient cultures.
Ask science had a thread where a lot of "biologist here" commenters chimed in about how complex biological s*x is- turns out the science says it's a spectrum!
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I unsubbed from askhistorians years ago since a couple of mods are unironic communists and post
of biased bullshit essays constantly. Yes, it's fun dunking on Nazis for the 500th time, but you don't need to hide Soviet warcrimes too lmao.
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zoz
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It's not really
a controversial flag but my favorite 
country 
flag is the Congo's. Usually not a fan of the color 
blue but I like the shade used on the flag.
Not a flag but who could hate the Qatar coat of arms? It's got fricking swords and a boat on it!
Formerly Chuck's.
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I just love light blue
!macacos fight me
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Brazil's flag manages to be ugly despite a good color scheme, words don't belong on them.
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I like it but I know a better
flag !burgers
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works well for footbal jersys though
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do you like our flag bb?
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Yes
Chicago looks very beautiful btw
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My mom is somehow worse. She unironically said she would rather had been born in Argentina instead of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Would
she say that pre-milei?
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She said that pre-Milei, she doesn't care about politics. Last election she didn't even know Sergio Moro was running for senator of ParanΓ‘ until Election Day when I told her, and she paid her fine for not voting on the municipal elections.
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I mean shit I'd care economics wise
They weren't exactly doing that hot
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She goes there for tourism or to meet her rather well-off friends so her perception gets warped by that.
Their economy is in terrible shape right now, it's merely showing the first signs of recover. It will take a decade of sustained reform for that, but considering Milei is popular after the first year of hard shock it looks like he has a decent shot of being re-elected.
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White !foidmoment
At least it shows signs
of recovery 
and not a death 
spiral 
lol
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Also because she loves the landscapes and feels more cultural affinity (this is not really surprising as Rio Grande do Sul and the South as a whole has more in common with the Rio-Platenses than with the rest of Brazil).
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It would be better without the
sun. Same issue the macaco flag has where it's too complicated to draw.
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Have I been having a stroke for multiple decades or is the Union Jack symmetrical? How can it be "reversed"? If you're on the other side of the flag pole doesn't it look like this? Is something broken in my brain where I can't imagine this in 3D?
Okay eurotrash and eurolovers: If it was, then why did our mother country (ask Thomas Paine, he'll explain it) France choose to use the same colors?
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https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ewkn7u/why_is_the_uk_flag_not_symmetrical/
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ewkn7u/why_is_the_uk_flag_not_symmetrical/fg33234/?context=8
it's a different type of symmetrical
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This is the most r-slurred shit I've ever heard in my life. Measuring the vertical size of another ship you're looking at (let alone a flag) is extremely difficult. It's obvious what direction the enemy is horizontally. Knowing how far away he is what matters. You're almost always going to be too short or long. So an incredible amount of work went into publishing books showing exactly how tall every ship in the enemy fleet is so you could calculate that from how big it appears to you.
If you were in a situation where you were close enough to tell some very slight difference in the ship's flag, you would already be in combat. Also why in the heck would the enemy not be able to read this just as easily? What situation are you in where you're in a battle and you're very close to a friendly ship and want to show that you're in trouble but for some reason you can't use flags? If they're close enough to see your subtle flag rotation, what are you saying? Drop out of the line of battle?
I can't 100% say this guy is a total r-slur, but either him or anyone who actually did this in the 1700s was.
There are much more prosaic explanations for a lot of stuff. Like why everyone has red, white, and blue as their colors: They were the cheapest back then when dye was really expensive.
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Unless......
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ACTUALLY: I think I'm something of an expert on the subject of pirate spyglasses.
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Modern historian:
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This but unironically. As a kid I didn't want the Lego pirate ship, I wanted the Lego navy ship that hunts them down and kills them.
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!historychads discuss the validity of this
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Darn, you're really mad over this, but thanks for the effort you put into typing that all out! Sadly I won't read it at all.
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As Riker says in "Frame of Mind": Agitated? You bet I'm agitated!
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Or is that just what Dr. Soona wants me to believe?
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Ive heard flying a flag upside down signals danger/distress before. So I believe what this guy is saying entirely
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Yeah, I know that. I'm well aware of all hippie signals from the 1960s.
But some peepeehead on a college deferment hanging an upside down American flag out the window of his subsidized housing in NW Portland in the 1960s to signal to r-slurred sluts with gonorrhea is a lot different from a sailing ship where you're hoping that someone from a friendly country will through the clouds and smoke from several miles away and see whatever is going .
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Mandella effect
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The current flag of South Africa looks way better though.
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yeah but the point is this guy immediately started to throw a tantrum, and got triggered by the flag and started foaming at the mouth
it's almost like a secular religious anger, like a christian soccor mom angry that nobody else in the bible study group is instantly condeming the SATANIC rock band coming to show this weekend
it's all performative
He didn't the decide the flag was ugly/bad based on thinking it over or analyzing it, he immediately associates anything with his ideological opposition as anathema which must be banished due to his doctrine.
You can decide the flag suck or is ugly or badly designed for any good/inane reason, but the point is we were all discussing (online) the compexity and history of this flag, and this terminal redditor was pooping up the talking space due to his wingcuckery
We all know the flag represents an atrocious totalitarian regime, but to act like such a frenzied zealot evreytime anathema symbols are discussed, puts people off, even if they cannot put that into words
It's false and inauthentic behaviour - it's like trains trying to cyber colonize subs by saying fictional character supports train rights
any of you !historychads tired of this performative behaviour
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Kaamy
@Elon_SUSk didn't offend the prinzvlag, he simply stated he likes the new one more.
People are not obliged to like the Apartheid flag sweety
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After conducting thorough research @Fresh_Start have determined that the country that will replace the US does not exist yet and this entity that replaces the US as the leading economy in the world will not have emerged till the end of the century.
It would take at least two billion humans too be able too compete with the US in total nominal GDP terms.
Jewish lives matter too Aevann.
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