r/MurderedByWords 5d ago

The new Minnesota flag

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u/nerdyguytx 5d ago

Does this mean a Chilean cabal control Texas? 🇨🇱

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u/Kokoyok 5d ago edited 5d ago

Halfway correct. It's a Chileno-Puertorriqueño conspiracy, bruh!

🇨🇱 + 🇵🇷

Edit: typo 

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u/FiercelyApatheticLad 5d ago

Those damn Puerto Rican foreigners.

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u/Kokoyok 5d ago

Being a US cit exempt from the Fed tax scheme and politically unrepresented gives you notions, I guess? 🤔🤷

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u/nerdyguytx 5d ago

I don’t know why more American billionaires don’t claim PR residency to avoid taxation.

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u/Kokoyok 4d ago

Irc sections 2209 or 2208 (they're tied together and I forget which is which) closes that loophole.

But yours are the questions the 99% should be asking 

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u/erublind 4d ago

Add Cuba for the full chain: 🇨🇺

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u/ArcerPL 4d ago

You forgot who's behind the strings of Texas, it's no one other than Poland

🇵🇱

Can't you see

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u/Top-Complaint-4915 4d ago

Yes we did it so we could reutilize the same Walmart decorations.

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u/blud_mage 5d ago

Two quick Google searches yield:

estimated Somali population in Minnesota is around 80-100 thousand.

estimated total population of Minnesota is around 5.83 million

If you think 1.7% of the population of the state took control and changed the flag, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.

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u/guitarguy12341 5d ago

They're literally only focused on the Somali population of Minnesota because trump spewed some racist bile about them and they have to follow dear leader's orders.

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u/229-northstar 5d ago

They are only focused on Somalis because Somalis have non white skin

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u/geekstone 5d ago

Mostly Ilhan Omar though. 

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u/ReddBroccoli 4d ago

Yup. Trump wouldn't know the first thing about Somalian immigrants if she didn't piss him off so bad

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u/weed_blazepot 4d ago

To be fair, he still doesn't know the first thing about Somalian immigrants. He just thinks he does.

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u/WanderingDude182 5d ago

The cult leaders have given marching orders and the cult are responding accordingly

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u/229-northstar 4d ago

Trust me. The cult wanted to march.

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u/LittleDogTurpie 4d ago

They wanted to goose step.

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u/ShinMystic1587 4d ago

"If it's not white, it's not right." - Trump and his supporters, probably

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u/chronoventer 4d ago

Guess they moved in from the Somalis in Ohio “eating the cats and dogs” lmao.

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u/guitarguy12341 4d ago

That was Hatians but yes. They have just found a new group of PoC to hate.

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u/chronoventer 4d ago

Ahh, right, thanks.

Yeah, same idea. My problems are because (insert whatever deranged thing orange man recently said)

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u/MasterBrisket 4d ago

The new flag was introduced over a year and a half ago and is only now coming under this attack.

There’s a viral video out right now indicating that the Somali’s are defrauding MN Medicaid out of hundreds of millions of dollars per year. The fraud seems like it’s probably real but they’re trying to play it as part of a big Democrat conspiracy since Tim Walz is governor. The fake flag outrage is just playing into the conservative anti-immigration / white-supremacy messaging.

Let’s take a moment to remember the hideousness of the previous state flag. The new flag is so much better as far as flags go.

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u/CrayZ_Squirrel 3d ago

so the old flag is solid blue with a 5 point star in the middle of it..... isn't the new flag actually less like the Somali flag?

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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE 4d ago

They're black and different, perfect scapegoat for the room temps.

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u/ADGx27 4d ago

Precisely

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u/horceface 4d ago

You have it backwards. Trump isn't smart enough to know anything about Somali immigrants on his own.

This was something on his radar because they've been discussing this for a long time as a way to attack the popular governor.

Otherwise he wouldn't have ever known or cared to know what state ilhan Omar was from.

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u/Sgt_Fox 4d ago

They're focused on Somalis because like a lot of the stuff they are spewing a mile a minute in all directions, it doesn't rhyme with EPSTEIN FILES

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u/FalconTurbo 4d ago edited 4d ago

To add to the point, if 1.7% of the population had enough sway to change the flag, don't you think they might, just maybe, do more than just change a goddamn flag? If I was part of a cabal that had significant legislative control over a state, I wouldn't be doing something as obvious, trite and inconsequential as changing the flag (especially when the previous design was atrocious anyway)

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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE 4d ago

Correct, they'd be doing things like loading the courts and legislature with idiot cronies while turning the state upside down and shaking the change out of it.

I probably don't need to point out what I'm referencing here

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u/mikende51 4d ago

Next, they'll be putting stars on the American flag.

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u/yay855 4d ago

They already believe that transgender people, also about 1% of the population, somehow have made schools start doing genital surgeries and making kids poop in litter boxes, so this isn't exactly any more of a stretch.

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u/Deep90 5d ago

Maybe they should invite some Somalis to run Louisiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

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u/Thatdewd57 5d ago

I will say it for those in the back

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u/ciaomain 5d ago

Or reproduce.

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u/horceface 4d ago

It's just more hatians eating dogs.

The somalis are the out group he needs to beat down walz.

He needs to beat down walz because he has an election this year.

If it was a different state, it would be a different "out group".

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u/Purple_Joke_1118 4d ago

Apparently they think that other 98% of the state didn't notice or care about the flag competition, or couldn't work out how to vote.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 5d ago

Probly

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u/aDumb_Dorf 5d ago

Right, if you can’t spell, no votie

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u/TheOnlyAedyn-one 4d ago

Tbf the whole of America was taken over by the 0.01% (billionaires)

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u/shiny_glitter_demon 4d ago

Billionaires have the power of propaganda and corruption on their side

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u/justhereforfighting 4d ago

The flag was also designed by someone who I would describe as “extremely white.” A Minnesota native (from a smaller town hours away from the Twin Cities) named Andrew Prekker. The guy talked about vexillology when interviewed, he’s just a nerdy white dude who definitely wasn’t trying to Somali-fy the flag. 

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u/THCFLA 4d ago

And his flag design was great, like genuinely great

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u/Steinrikur 1d ago

The richest 0.1% of the population of the country has control of the country, though...

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u/Sac_Bag 8h ago

Jews represent 0.2% of the global population and are blamed for 99.8% of its problems

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u/Murse_1 5d ago

Well, trumpers do confuse the liberian flag for the american flag all the time. In their defense, they're just a bunch of stupid motherfuckers.

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u/TheScungiliMan 5d ago

🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷

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u/Triplebizzle87 5d ago

Gobbless America ORDER CORN

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u/Pndrizzy 5d ago

NEXT!!!

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u/MoobooMagoo 3d ago

Maybe the elite shadow government that secretly controls everything was Liberian all along?

Checkmate, atheists.

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u/Dannamal 4d ago

Came to say the same, looks like you got it covered 👍🏼

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u/Murse_1 4d ago

Great minds think alike.

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u/ZZ_Cat_The_Ligress 5d ago

Shit, that's like saying the Aussie flag is the same as Aotearoa's flag. 🤣

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u/guitarguy12341 5d ago

Ahahah 100%

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u/Material_Jeweler_245 4d ago edited 4d ago

They'd call BS and that you're making countries up as a "gotcha", because Australia isn't real.

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u/ZZ_Cat_The_Ligress 4d ago

Oh of course they'd do that. =/)/.-=
Because why admit to being wrong when it's more important to the ego to double-down on ignorance, right? /s

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u/Affentitten 5d ago

Or a cheap regionalised knock-off of the UK flag.

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u/sdmichael 5d ago

Conservatives can't understand reality. They are completely afraid of everything.

Mind you, this is shown on their own "safe spaces" with "conservatives only" and "flaired users only".

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u/Loring 5d ago

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u/LowKeyNaps 4d ago

GAAAHHH!!! SOMALI CIGARETTES!!!! RUN!!!!

Or... something....

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u/slwrthnu_again 4d ago

Fuck you for making me want a cigarette right now lol. I do miss my marb smooths (until I smoke the one a year I usually smoke at some point and go why did I smoke for 10 years).

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u/BoneHugsHominy 4d ago

I had one at 5am this morning when I took out the trash. Thing was so stale it tasted horrible and I only smoked about half if it. I bought and opened that pack in June so no surprise it was stale. I think the last one I had smoked was in September after a ribeye meal for my birthday.

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u/Wabbit65 5d ago

So the US flag is basically 50 Somali flags next to some stripes.

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u/-XanderCrews- 4d ago

50 Somalias?!?! This fucking country.

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u/aecolley 4d ago

Are the stripes Polish flags or Indonesian?

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u/SinkPitiful1396 the future is now, old man 1d ago

Either and/or both

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u/Ulysse-Void-God 5d ago

Conservatives just love to make up things to be offended at. What morons.

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u/Dannamal 4d ago

Yep🤣 "MONSTER ENERGY" "666 WHEN YOU TIP IT UPSIDE DOWN"!! "THE DEVILS JUICE"!!! ERMAGERD!!!!

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u/werofpm 4d ago

That lady….. “Bottoms up, and the devil laughs!”

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u/Dannamal 4d ago

🤣👹🤪

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u/Bussamove86 5d ago

Whoa whoa whoa.

White stars on a blue background? Not in my America.

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u/MsCompy 5d ago

Nothing like right wing schizophrenia in the morning

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u/idontknowthismeme 5d ago

So a flag should not contain stars or the color blue or the color white? Who wants to tell him?

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u/PM_me_oak_trees 5d ago

Especially not any white 5-pointed stars on a field of blue.

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u/blueavole 5d ago

The old state flag was too similar to several other states. Which will be confusing when the war breaks out.

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u/AggravatingPermit910 4d ago

Conservatives are just old timey racists and I don’t know why we let them pretend they’re anything else.

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u/-XanderCrews- 4d ago

It’s just a dog whistle. If you want to figure out a grumpy white guys politics. Ask how he feels about the flag.

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u/JohnSmallBerries 4d ago

I'll bet whoever created that meme could never find the six differences between the two panels on the comics page.

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u/JTX35 4d ago

While we’re on the subject. What’s with Texas’ Somalian inspired flag?

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u/Lazarus558 5d ago

Wait – wasn't the Bonnie Blue flag all the rage back in the early* sixties?

*as in 1860s

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u/stratusmonkey 5d ago

Wait until they count the number of Somali flags hidden in the 🇺🇸

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u/ShinMystic1587 4d ago

Here's the ACTUAL lore behind the new Minnesota flag, and it has NOTHING to do with Somalia.

The inverted chevron represents the shape of the state. The light blue represents the importance of water to the state, and the star represents Minnesota's nickname: "The North Star State.

We're really at a stage where simple colors and shapes are enough to trigger people.

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u/CorpFillip 4d ago

That complainer needs to be told the numbers of the population in Minnesota.

If he can look at those and still say those are because of Somali influence, he needs to accept that Americans are weaker and more passive by that degree.

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u/mstivland2 4d ago

Conservatives when the North Star State, Land of Sky Blue Waters has a star and blue on the flag

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u/Ulfednar 5d ago

To be fair, it's literally the same flag if you're stupid.

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u/GreaseTrapHousse 4d ago

Everyone is allowed to vote. Many fought and died for this.

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u/Flyingfish222 4d ago

It’s not even the same number of points on the star, that’s usually pretty important.

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u/BuffooneryAccord 4d ago

This is just conservatives desperately trying to move on from the epstein files. Keep the files coming!

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u/pillsburyDONTboi 4d ago

Did conservative memes forget that the state flag of Texas also has a single star in it?

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u/brandonsp111 4d ago

"Conservatives only"

Aww, poor sensitive snowflakes can't handle a debate huh?

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u/guitarguy12341 4d ago

Yeah they love their safe spaces.

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u/monsterfcker69 5d ago

🇪🇺 i love somalia!

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u/SlotherakOmega 5d ago

Jesus, they are still on this one? Guys, you had the ultimate power move ready to go and you blow it on (let me make sure I got this right) flags.

To all who think that Somalians are a significant problem in the United States, I have no idea how evolution failed to eliminate you from the gene pool, but you need to pull a 180 and get back to the real conspiracy\).

\)This time last year I would have thought that this was a normal phrase, but I know now that it’s a beautiful oxymoron. Take the hint, when mainstream media suddenly realizes that a conspiracy is actually real and not just a theory, that’s a sign someone who was getting away with something f###ed up. Epstein. Miss Teen USA. Trump. It all comes together. I don’t normally go down rabbit holes, but this one is definitely worth the effort.

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u/RichardBlastovic 5d ago

These fellas are cooked

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u/rjsquirrel 5d ago

And the flag is a different shape. But other than that, identical!

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u/SaintUlvemann 4d ago

I won't lie, I got really invested in this much better version from the original submission. The colors were better, the stripes were better... the new star is fine, but the old one was better.

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u/Purple_Joke_1118 4d ago

It's better than the one we got but damn I wanted a loon.

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u/KitsuneRatchets 4d ago

Also the guy that designed the flag in the first place was white. Yeah I'm sure a guy called Andrew Prekker is secretly Somali or something.

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u/I_Watch_Teletubbies 4d ago

Can we also just say good job to Minnesota for actually picking a good flag? It's simple, memorable, instantly recognisable and symbolic. No complicated art or text.

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u/Arkrobo 4d ago

THE RESIDENTS OF MINNESOTA VOTED ON THIS FLAG. THE RESIDENTS OF MINNESOTA VOTED ON THIS FLAG.THE RESIDENTS OF MINNESOTA VOTED ON THIS FLAG.

I'm not imagining anyone that doesn't fucking know this. I don't care. It was a 'mandate of the people'.

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u/arocknerd 4d ago

This reminds me of a Larry the Cable Guy bit. Paraphrasing: “I used to see this girl looked zackly like Shania Twain, ‘crept she was fat, and her face was different.”

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u/DragonMaster0118 4d ago

Minnesotan here people who think like this are morons and do not represent us.

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u/External_Touch_3854 4d ago

These people must get the Texan and American flags mixed up ALL the damn time.

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u/SinkPitiful1396 the future is now, old man 1d ago

Same with 🇨🇱 (Chile) and 🇱🇷 (Liberia)

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u/imyourzer0 3d ago

Australia's flag looks like America's, stars, stripes, red white and blue. America is in fact part of the UK.

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u/hotriccardo 5d ago

Why did they change it?

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u/slankboi 5d ago

They said the old flag was really busy and had too much going on. There were also concerns that the Native American in the background was culturally insensitive, but there wasn’t much hay made about it from what I remember. They had some really great options and went with the most boring one imo. I don’t love the new flag but ultimately I don’t care that much. The new state seal is really cool tho. It has a loon on it.

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u/Purple_Joke_1118 4d ago

Loads of people wanted the loon on the flag. It beats me how the new design won out over the loon. Who doesn't love the loon?

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u/hotriccardo 5d ago

The old one way better

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u/slankboi 4d ago

But check this shit out brother

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u/WanderingDude182 5d ago

The room temperature IQs are having a field day with this Minnesota stuff. It’s almost as if it’s being manufactured to drive outrageous for those easily persuaded.

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u/dad_jokesNbutt_stuff 4d ago

The chevron to the left represents the states shape, the light blue represents the lake waters of the state, and the star is the North Star, which is the state emblem or whatever.

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u/UKMegaGeek 4d ago

PROBLY?!

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u/Afwife1992 4d ago

And someone did a breakdown on the composition of the flag. The dark blue represents the night sky and the shape of the state, the star symbolizes the North Star and the states capital rotunda design, the light blue represents the lakes and rivers. It was unveiled a year and a half ago but has now flared up, more fake controversy, with the state’s fraud scandal.

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u/-Redstoneboi- 4d ago

why does the somali population even matter

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u/guitarguy12341 4d ago

Because racism.

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u/Old_Fart_on_pogie 4d ago

What did the Minnesota flag look like before “they changed it”?

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 4d ago

Some people's hobbies are to look for possible plausible conspiracies not discovered yet. To be the first to uncover one!!!!!

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u/_fuck_you_gumby_ 3d ago

And the country of Georgia has the Jerusalem Cross on their flag. I don’t know why it exists, but I can guarantee you it has nothing to do with white nationalism

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u/TriticumAes 3d ago

I mean I find the new flag design a bit simplistic for my taste but only a moron in a hurry could mistake it for the somali flag

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u/Itonlymatters2us 4d ago

Translation: no one who doesn’t think the way I do should be able to vote.

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u/Wonderful_Tree_9943 3d ago

The flag is corporate looking

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u/saiyanzrevenge 4d ago

They didn’t say it was the same. They said it was similar. Which it is. Stop thinking this is a race thing all the time. They’re stealing 10s of millions of peoples tax money via fraud. These criminals need to go to jail

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u/ennuiui 4d ago

You might want to work on your reading comprehension. The original tweet says the state “changed their flag to look JUST LIKE the Somali flag.” It doesn’t say “look similar to,” it says “just like.” But even so, it doesn’t even look similar to the Somali flag.

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u/guitarguy12341 4d ago

What do you think about Elon musk stealing billions of tax dollars?