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  • VivaZapata [he/him]B
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    4 years ago

    Needs more corn. Wheat is an imperailst cereal

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Really Nice. Maybe a little First Nations representation would be good (though I'm not really qualified on how that would be done.

  • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The 13 stars call to mind settler colonial symbolism. Blue is too associated with the Democrats, and with the stars makes it red, white, and blue. Cannot emphasize enough how the flag should have nothing whatsoever to do with the genocidal US empire.

    Corn makes more sense than wheat, since it's indigenous to the US.

  • HarryLime [any]
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    4 years ago

    I like that it's blue, it makes it stand out from other socialist flags. No need to be wedded to red everything.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Nice. Really US-ish format, which is probably bad then.

      Maybe the bundles of wheat could be changed for, idk, corn and sunflower cuz those are from America, particularly sunflower is from north america.

  • TossedAccount [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    What do the stars represent in this flag? Why is the background blue? Why go with a wheat wreath instead of corn stalks?

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        4 years ago

        I doubt a soviet-style union of American republics would feature any of the iconography of the 1776-1789 bourgeois revolution, or would even exist if the US-American working class actually fought to won the revolution somehow were still scared of the "blood red" color featured prominently in most socialist flags. Attempting to design a realistic socialist "USSA" flag borders on utopian speculation when we don't yet know what material conditions or geopolitics are going to look like when the revolution is finally won throughout at least most of the continent. There's an abundance of uncertainties about the specific material details - including really important questions like whether Indigenous and First Nations peoples form independent states or join the union as autonomous enclaves - that would likely be reflected in such a flag design. As Lenin observed in State and Revolution, Marxists shouldn't spend much time on this sort of idle guesswork and speculation, and can only start fleshing out the details scientifically after major historical developments happen to give them the empirical data they need for such analysis.

          • TossedAccount [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Didn't mean to be such a buzzkill. Historical fanfiction is a fun thought experiment but there are still a lot of possible outcomes that might escape your imagination and can't easily be captured in simulations like grand strategy games.

        • spectre [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I agree with everything you said, but also I want to have some fun with it

      • charles_xcx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        it should be 13 stars for the remaining 13 states of the USSA after land is given back to the first nations people and Hawaii gains independence

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I really like the addition of gold to the red, white, and blue.

  • Amorphous [any]
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    4 years ago

    I like the angle you're coming from, but I agree with most of the criticisms here. The stars should probably go, wheat is a little bit symbolically incoherent, and red, white, and blue is not great for a color scheme. Don't get me wrong, I like the blue field, I just don't like the implication that there is some sort of pride for or legacy of the US here.