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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Get your Tricolours here!

All your tricolours! Most of them still unclaimed!

Lovely tricolours!

[–] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We need to put this on a wall and throw a dart to pick one

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Or flip a coin for horizontal/vertical, then roll 3 "d8" dice.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Exploring the question How many ways are there to combine red, white and blue and still claim it has some kind of meaning.

But still better than African flags. Like some originality would kill them.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Mozambique's flag slaps tho

To a lesser degree, Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia

Even Angola's isn't bad

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

Kenya is a top 10 in the world for me

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

Ngl Uganda and Kenya slap. 10/10 for a flag, instantly recognizable.

As someone mentioned in another comment it's the West Africa that does red, green and yellow with a star in any possible combinations

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I think you're thinking of west African flags with similar colours with a star in the middle.

The rest of Africa is pretty original as pugjesus showed

[–] wieson@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The flag was not the main identifier, it was just the colours (literally) of the main identifier: the coat of arms.

Then the simplification became the main identifier.

Still better then fifty stars of the US ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You take that back, the flag is the only consistently cool part of my country

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Weird way to spell "the Bill of Rights."

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

It has some troublesome bits - the Second Amendment has bred any number of lunatics, and I have mixed feelings on the 10th. The flag, however, has always been A E S T H E T I C

Fuck the IDF.