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great post
Let's make a tierlist sbout how urgent it is for them to change:
S:
The old fashioned, imperial russian flag was beautiful:
But even better is with a crest:
Which can be simplified for a stylish modern design (as i bekieve all credts should be when possible)
Alternatively, a bear could look good on their flag:
A:
B:
F:
Petition for you to add flag emoji to each country mention, e.g. "🇵🇱 Poland", for those of us (me!) who are vexillologically challenged and don't remember any flags.
Edit: an attempt, based on gboard's emoji search functionality and with zero verification:
A correction on the PRC's flag: the 4 smaller stars each represent one of the classes in New Democracy:
The fifth, largest star, is for the CPC itself, which unites and guides the 4 classes, itself dominated by the proletariat.
The old, five stripes flag is the one that represented the 5 major ethnic groups of China, which is often confused as the reasoning for China's current 5 stars.
@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world I believe this reply ^ was intended for you
Oof, ty.
That makes sense! Thank you
No problem!
Note: some flags (like 🇸🇾Syria) were changed recently enough that the emoji could look different depending on your operating system and which app or browser you're using for Lemmy. Gboard shows me the new flag (green on top, 3 red stars), but Voyager/Android 16 shows the old flag (red on top, 2 green stars). It's unavoidable when Unicode is used to encode things that can change, like flags. But it's better than nothing!
The only way around it is to embed pictures of flags, but that takes more effort. And data.
Syria flag apparently changed without me knowing. I will sleep well tonight. All it took was deposing Bashar Al Assad
Happy to accidentally be of service :)
What is this blasphemy
Seriously, our flag is like the best thing Canada has going for it.
Although as much as I loathe little corner Union Jacks on flags, I have to admit I'd probably get a kick from the reaction of the entire province of Québec if it were to happen.
I actually like Israel's flag. It's simple, it's bright, and it's instantly recognizable. It's unique and doesn't follow a trend, it's doesn't have clashing colors, and the symbolism is neither absent or overloaded. It's a really good flag. I think it's the second best one in the Middle East after Lebanon's flag. I think they should keep it.
This is the most common Polish flag I've seen, with the Eagle:
Pretty good IMO
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Great points! I think Russia should change their flag close to the imperial one! Looks awesome and quite individual.
A reply for one that hits too close to home... Israel's flag, it was our flag long before and I don't think it necessarily represents the atrocities of the past few years. I definitely hope for (and try to work towards) a "regime change", by which I mean more of a regime resuscitation as it is kind of a democracy on its death bed, which has always been flawed to some capacity but isn't unsalvageable. I think. (Honestly though, what do I know about regime change...)
Getting sidetracked, but back to the flag. Israel has flown this flag basically since its first independence, and while it never actually was at peace (welcome to the middle east...), there have been long periods where it actively sought peace and even made great concessions to try to achieve it. It seems wrong to disregard that history, and only associate the flag with what the state has done in recent years. The flag doesn't need to change for the state's policy to change. If it did, then it would already have been changed.
As a point of comparison, the flags used by the British Empire are not so tainted by the atrocities of imperialism that they can't be used today. England has changed, but its flag doesn't have to. It carries its history, the good and the bad.
That's fair enough. I don't see the star of David going out of fashion as a symbol anyway. Point about England is good.