I see the Red Star likes it. Who would have thought?
Flying over the twin cities of Mogadishu-St. Paul
What a waste of an article. I know, I know, I violated FR rules and actually read the article. Only one image of the new flag, and the image can’t be enlarged so you can see what the new (or the old one, for that matter) looks like. This is our new rulers telling us “...trust us, you’ll like it!”.
More than a dozen? Thirteen or fourteen? That's not really a crowd, is it?
The central image on both shows a white settler plowing a field in the foreground with a rifle and an ax resting on a nearby tree stump. In the background, a Native American man on horseback rides westward toward the setting sun.
I read this and thought it sounded really cool and was surprised they picked it. Then I realized this was the description of the bad old design.
“Voices hushed in a crowd of more than a dozen onlookers...”
Doing to flags what the Post Office did to stamps.
The old flag evoked history and tradition. But the modernists find history and tradition to be problematic.
The new flag evokes graphic arts, and not very good graphic arts. I’m surprised they didn’t go all the way to an emoji.
Today’s the day! Tim and I are excited to see the new Minnesota flag displayed across our state. pic.twitter.com/q4feaStDE3— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 11, 2024
From a flag denoting the origin of the state, to one that is meaningly less to all who see it.
It’s designed to look somewhat like the somalia flag. Somalis will see the resemblance. Americans with their heads up their anal exit passageway will not bother doing a Google search and will go on fat, dumb and happy until the next iteration of the somalia flag in Minnesota.
It looks like it was designed by a 24 year old and selected by a committee of bureaucrats.
That is the eight-pointed star which is the muslim star. It is being pushed in many states.
...because putting up a white flag would be too obvious.
According to the demographics of Minnesota, it is 76% White. Good number of Somalis living there now. But they don’t have the numbers yet. The problem is that Minneosta is so woke.
They might as well have a flag depicting the teeth of a democrat Pygmy cannibal biting into a human ribcage.
This would have been a more truer depiction of the inhabitants in Minneapolis. /spit
Despite praise from vexillologists, a poll found that just 23% of Minnesota voters supported switching to the new flag, while 21% supported replacing the flag with a different design and 49% wished to keep the existing flag. A criticism of the design is its alleged similarity to flags from Somalia; this criticism was rebuffed by the commission overseeing the flag redesign. Another criticism of the final design is that it is “plain”.
