some people are triggered and withdraw from the hammer and sickle symbolism. i agree we need new symbolism and need to shed ourselves of the negative connotation attached to historical ones
The US flag is one of the ugliest and most garish flags out there, why would we keep any parts of the old design? Dump the stars and stripes, just have a red flag with the hammer and sickle in the corner with a national symbol in the middle, like an eagle or something, idk.
why would we keep any parts of the old design?
To commemorate the conquered.
im more of a fan of the wrench and cog than hammer and sickle because it recognizes the achievements of the past while forging its own path into the symbolism of the future
I've never seen one pulled off visually pleasing. It's derivative anyway. So I'd rather use the original.
I love cogs! An atom, a molecule, or a space ship might be even better for futurism/progress.
The effective thing about the hammer and sickle was that people actually used hammers and sickles when the flag went up. They represented working people. We don't really have working tools like that to unite everyone. Keyboards? Meh.
Imagine if every nation had its own distinct symbology - hammers and sickles for the agarian nations, cogs and wrenches for the industrial ones, mice and keyboards for the service-based economies, cummies and spaceships for the post-scarcity fully automated luxury hedonist ones etc.
this is a revolution in the USA creating the United States Socialist Republic, right?
They all remind me of communist kfc buckets. Not really feeling them.
What if we keep settler-colonialist state...but make it socialist?
If we have to use a flag can we just use something universal? Personally if I ever hold up a bourgeois flag it better be something beyond nationalism and patriotism and unnecessary ideological symbolism. I always preferred the 🏳️🌈 for all humanity.
They are all very nice. However, the red white and blue colour schema is culturally attached to bourgeois revolutions and bourgeois states and democracy, which of course turned out to be a lie.
I like vexillology, so maybe we should have lots of flags. It’s a free planet
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plain red or red/black depending on the specific coalition is where it's at.
So obviously I was having fun. I created my own rendition of the hammer and sickle. A mix of the original ussr design and the one of the Chinese communist party. That's when I decided to make some flags with it. https://i.imgur.com/HVV0hFw.png
Crossed tomahawk and sickle inside a gear in yellow in the top left of a red flag
Going from left to right, probably number 3, the left one in the second row.
Vertical stripes have too much going on so 1 and 6 are out. 2 is nice and I like how the hammer and sickle is on the left side but the colors don't vibe too well with me. 3 is nice and I like it more than 5 because the triangles are slimmer and more subtle. 4 is good too but it might be better if the star was above the hammer and sickle.
I like how it takes the staples of the us flag but in a way thats nearly unrecognizable without being told the corelation
/e and makes it actually looks good, unlike the current us flag
