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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is shaping up to be the thing right wing nuts get outraged about this upcoming week. I feel like this is a good litmus test… anyone who gets angry about this is probably way more of a white nationalist than they are letting on. You think these same people who be angry about a blue/white/orange tricolor, saying it’s too close to the Dutch flag?

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The original tweet is not even correct in any way. Ilhan Omar is not from Puntland, she's from Mogadishu. Her father is from the area of Puntland. But Puntland didn't even exist on a map until 1998 - when Ilhan Omar was 17 years old. No one in her family, including her, ever lived in a place called "Puntland." Her father was basically from the area that became Puntland, but never lived in it at any time it was referred to as "Puntland."

Furthermore, the Puntland flag is from 2009 - 14 years after Ilhan Omar's family was in the United States. Not even her father has any ties to that flag, its extremely modern. Chuds will just find anything to get worked up over.

edit: Puntland didn't even exist until 3 years after Ilhan Omar's family was in the United States

edit 2: furthermore, I'd love to see EndWokeness' source for "largest Somali population in the west" because I don't think that's true either. I'm pretty sure London has more Somali people than Minnesota.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

I guess this dude is counting on nobody outside Minnesota looking into this at all, because even the Wikipedia page on their state flag has a subsection for the North Star Flag design from 1989 that most of the redesign finalists are based on.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I can't believe the Minnesotans colonized Puntland smh.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

They won't stop until everyone has been force-fed hotdish.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

that's cool I didn't know they were getting rid of the shitty old racism one.

Mostly performative, but still cool.

I do dislike this trend towards minimalism in flags, though. Flags should have weapons and fantasy animals and weird symbolism. There was an alternative proposal that I think was like a loon firing laser beams at Wisconsin from its eyes or something.

Edit: The flag should have just said "HA HA FUCK YOU VIRGINIA WE'VE STILL GOT YOUR FLAG" in comic sans.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I do dislike this trend towards minimalism in flags

I blame map gamers and r/vexillology, and I'm probably not even wrong.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Even if you are wrong, fuck those nerds.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

Old flag is so ugly

First off it's way too busy, at a distance it doesn't look like anything

Second, racist as hell

Third, not symmetrical

Just awful, one of the worst flags I've ever seen

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Oh no, Somali immigrants getting some acknowledgement, the horror!

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

Something tells me the people who have a problem with this wouldn’t have a problem with a flag that acknowledges the Norwegian or Swedish settlers who were there.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Fuckers would have loved putting that fake runestone on it or something.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

a flag but its the bluetooth runes ᚼᛒ

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, even if this were true--which it almost certainly isn't--how is this a problem (or "woke")? The state flag design paying homage to something demographically unique about the state seems pretty reasonable to me.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

They made a better flag, it's joever, I can hear the red judeo-bolshevik army stomping in the streets already.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

I thought it was the gay fella flag flag-gay-pride-mlm

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

What if it was Mannesota and it was just for the fellas

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Would explain why I left when I came out

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this is so much better than the winning submission that they based it on. i was curious about the motivation of the person who created it so did a little digging. Original submission that was selected was White/Green/Blue with a nato star.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

a nato star.

🤮🤮🤮

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

i'm still fucking pissed that the finalists/winner forced me to agree with CPG grey, wtf are these people declaring it woke for

ah yes the flag with utterly pedestrian provenance and reddit-tier sensibilities: so-true is this ISLAMIC EXTREMISM??

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

The new flag is way cooler. I'm sure vexologists would agree.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

it doesn't take a lot of work to improve upon state level flags in the US. They're notoriously bad. They're mostly blue fields with a central seal that's too busy. Virginia's gets a pass as tolerable though because it depicts a lady killing a dude.

fun fact, Oklahoma's state flag had to get changed in 1925 because its previous design (a red field with a star in the center) made everyone think Oklahoma was communist

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I like busy flags and banners

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Critical support for Oklahoma bringing back the commie flag.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Real talk though that flag is ugly. I would be so happy and excited for states finally replacing their dumb state-seal-on-a-background flags if the replacements weren’t so God awful.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

minnesota-flag The usian people yearn for freedom and democracy in their flags. minnesota-flag

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Oh hell yeah we got acid monke as an emoji

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

what I think it looks awesome

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Schlomann is correct. A state apparatus full of people like End Wokeness won't be able to manage a functioning society for much longer.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Just look at Florida.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

That’s not even the flag. This is the template flag they selected. They might go with a variant of it which that flag is one of many possibilities, but they’ll probably just end up going with the template.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Me, after seeing red and green Christmas decorations at the mall: "God damn Moldovans coming over here putting the colours of the Pridnestrovian flag on my mall!"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

where's the link, :LIB: ❓

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe Zamasu was right after all. What's with humans and their violent adherence to bigotry?

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