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Thyristor_Music t1_izv2nvn wrote

A flag of importance should be easily replicated by anyone by hand without any need of assisted tooling or machines. European flags have this down to a science. 2 or 3 colors, basic shapes (rectangles), easily identifiable.

During hard times the current flag would essentially be impossible to recreate by hand and would most likely end up being flown as a plain blue sheet. maybe that can be your starting point.

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UnaffiliatedOpinion t1_j043v4b wrote

It's not 1776, there is no conceivable hard time that would require people to be hand sewing flags out of scrap material. The only believable reason is civil war that fractured even Pennsylvanians against each other (in which case would they even want to use the flag anyway?)

Russia is literally using spray paint so its units can identify friend from foe even though their flag is simple as could be. Nobody is going to be making flags by hand out of necessity.

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Thyristor_Music t1_j047wdi wrote

A flag should represent the present and stand the test of time, even a future that is uncertain. Things are good now but that doesn't mean they always will be and there should always be an easily identifiable symbol that can unite people. There's a reason many European flags have gone unchanged for 400+ years yet here we are discussing a redesign for a flag that is barely over 100 years old. I'm not saying the new PA has to be designed like a European flag but they've stood the test of time.

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