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stdTrancR OP t1_iwmjjzj wrote

> “This flag is Basic and means Absolutely nothing. There is no patriotism in this flag,” another posted, without explaining their capitalization choices.

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Doktor_musmatta t1_iwmjw2d wrote

"better than most other state flags" [citation needed]

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nytefox42 t1_iwmklgc wrote

Either way, it's still Utah so 🤮

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geronimo1958 t1_iwmlj4m wrote

Nothing special or awful. Just kinda meh.

For reference the best state flags are simple. Checkout New Mexico and South Carolina. Both are regularly in the top 5 list of state flags.

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GetlostMaps t1_iwmmftb wrote

A true vexillologist would tell you this is a shit flag because it's too complex. The dot, the yellow line inside the black shape - these are not reducible, the flag is too complex. It's a shit flag designed by someone who doesn't know how to design flags.

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MeaningSilly t1_iwmtzhx wrote

Yes. The first settlers of the area revered industriousness. They put used the phrase "Busy as a beehive." And even named the "nation" they were creating (and later the state they were proposing when they realized they weren't going to be allowed to compete with the USA) after the world for bees in the Book of Mormon.

Deseret

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Ctorran t1_iwnoc7t wrote

I give the Maryland flag props for boldness. They embrace it. It may be a little...garish, but at least it's unique and instantly recognizable. I also like Hawaii's flag and I don't care who knows it.

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FinnaNutABigFatty t1_iwnpojh wrote

The flag should just be a flag that says UTAH in comic sans

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bdwoot t1_iwoks61 wrote

That's actually a pretty sharp design. Like it.

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MeaningSilly t1_iwoxyg5 wrote

Supposedly, one of the tribes of Israel hopped on hollowed out logs with magic rocks in them and floated across the Atlantic to the Americas where they set up shop building a new Israel. Then Jesus visited while doing the whole "I'm dead. Psych!" thing, a war broke out, and all the "good" Native Americans were killed. Their history of the whole thing was written on some solid gold plates and buried in upstate New York and found by con artist and aspiring prophet Joseph Smith, who read the hieroglyphic "reformed Egyptian" text on the plates by putting them in a hat with a pair of magic "divine" rocks that translated them for him by God's will. The text that came from this was the Book of Mormon.

So the different wording was part of the con from the aforementioned "reformed Egyptian" text.

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