• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Those middle 2 flags are, purely from an aesthetic/design point of view, somewhere between amateur hour and war crime.

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      I felt the same, just flat out terrible looking. Just completely foolish, juvenile.

      But an almost instant second thought was about how impossible it’d be, in that time and place especially, to keep those big white…stretches…continuing to look anything close to white. Civil War being the messy thing it was, Confederacy in particular not exactly known for their sharp discipline and order, lol…

      Bet those things* looked like total ass, flown.

      Almost makes for a funny metaphor, somewhere. Can’t quite get there myself, but something to do with their big, badly designed white spaces getting browner all the time 🤷‍♂️

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      And like the text says they really were useless in a practical sense because of the white surrender-and-truce flag tradition.

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    The Confederacy was, purely from an ethics/history point of view, somewhere between amateur hour and war crime.

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    Funnily enough, this flag …

    …is used by anti-government “cookers” and sovereign citizens.

    Why? Dunno. It’s for a ship registered as part of the Australian merchant navy. Cargo ships, cruise liners, etc.

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      Probably because sovereign citizens beliefs are defined by believing the very first piece of info they come across and then blocking out all other conflicting info for the rest of their life.

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      Sovereign citizens have a weird obsession with archaic naval law (or their envisioning of it)

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        Admiralty law, and it stems from it being one the few areas of jurisdictions covered by federal courts per Art 3 sec 2 of the US Constitution.

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    I’m don’t think that last part is true. My understanding is the Battle Flag was actually popular during the civil war, that’s why it was made part of the national flag design.

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    represented the superiority of the white race

    …sounds like some childish, revisionist bullshit.

    so niche… only became popular…

    I’m listening, but I need some sources on that.

    Anyway, I’ve always said, if you want to fly your heritage accurately, why not the stars and bars?

    And yes, it’s now a racist symbol. A few decades back, no one gave a shit. I can’t say it’s exactly been “hijacked”, but kinda? In any case, as of 2024, if you’re sporting that shit, you want me to know where you stand. And I know exactly where you stand.

    EDIT: One other thing I think sucks about the battle flag, we lost it in Pensacola. We were known as the City of Five Flags owing to who ruled us in the past. Spanish, French, British, Confederates and the United States. Had to ditch the Confederate flag because the racists own it now. Sucks.