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The Confederate Flag has certainly gotten a bad rap. Controversial to be sure but depends on who is using it. Modern hoisters use it as a symbol of rebellion in defiance of governmental influence and control, which is why the Confederate States adopted a version of this flag during the Civil War. This version you’ve posted is a 20th Century adaptation of the Confederate Navy and Battle Flag design. But you’re right, it is a damn nice flag and should not be disregarded because of misplaced racial symbolism.

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Current version. The Battle Flag originally used had a faded blue/red design in contrast to the crisp blue/red used today. The 13 stars represent the States that ceded from the Union.

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Seeing as I live in Florida and am from the north, whenever I see that flag, I always think of redneck assholes. So that is not the prettiest flag.

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Fixed some stuff for you.
First Confederate Flag:

Bonnie Blue Flag (used unoffically by the South)


The Confederate Battle Flag, you might notice, is a square, as opposed to the 20th century redesign.









From my reading his post, he associated the flag with redneck assholes. If you saw someone flying the "Don't Tread on me" banner, then you might call them "hick assholes".










Don't give any "This is our flag! crap. We, as Americans, have one flag:





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The Bonnie Blue was rarely used though. But definitely an “unofficial” more generic flag to be used by southern republics until a more suitable flag was adopted to represent a state or region. It was adapted and used for the State of Texas and is still in use today:
http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:B.../TexasFlag.jpg

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If you look at the history of the swastika, it was actually a sign that inspired people, there was even a town in Canada called "Swastika", alot of people stayed with the Nazi's for this reason, when WWII came, they tried to rename there town, but the residents just went "Aw fuck it, let's not get Hitler to ruin the name"

Its actually demonizing of our enemies, if you saw the United States during WWII, it was heavily influenced by the KKK, which if you seen some of there public demonstrations, then you know they hate the Jews as much as they hate Black people, yet at the same time we demonized the Nazi's.

In WWI, we demonized Germany for wanting the world, we allied with Britain, which had the biggest empire on the face of the Earth.

For these reasons, it would have been just as justified to join Germany in both wars, we only joined Britain and France because of geographic reasons, Germany can be censored by Britain and France from the United States, Germany can't do that to Britain.

Anyway, I believe the middle finger in China is a symbol of well being........

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I'm pretty sure we couldn't have joined them in the second world war seeing as how they were actually evil. The first world war would've been fine if we joined them seeing as how their side was attacked first (Serbia was allied with Russia, France, and Great Britain).

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According to the current Turkish Goverment, its not :lol:

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World War I wasn't Germany's fault, but you can see how easy it was to demonise them for it regardless. With the notable exception of the British, whom were one of the few major powers of the time who actually declared war on Germany rather than the other way around, Germany pretty much declared war on everybody on their own.



I like to trot out a brief timeline of the bizarre domino effect that led to one of the worst wars in human history:

• While on vacation, Austro-Hungary's favourite Archduke, who would later start a famous popular music band, gets shot in the stomach by Serbian terrorists who have dirty hands. Despite having just murdered two people, these terrorists then find themselves incapable of successfully committing suicide - they later become invincible crime fighters.
• Austro-Hungary blames Serbia for the actions of these clumsy terrorists, and promptly hands them with a stringent ultimatum - bend over and take it like an inmate, or you'll die like a lobster in a cooking pot. Serbia, not having any lube handy and knowing that their pimp, Russia, would rush to their defence, predictably tells the Austrians to swivel on their collective middle finger.
• Austro-Hungary has no lube left either, having used it all expanding their empire. War looms on the horizon.
• Imperial Russia is kinda friendly with Serbia and so mobilise their legions of really scary serfs. They're also bigger than the Austro-Hungarian empire, so playground politics come into play - "get the fuck away from my little brother or I'll pound you into the ground with my legions of really scary serfs", the Tzar says to the Austrians.
• Germany is kinda friendly with Austria, and they hate the smell of Russians posturing in the morning. They kindly hand over an ultimatum to the Tzar, telling Russia to keep their Slavic noses out of Teutonic business.
• Russia doesn't leave the playground. And so, Germany prepares to make Russia bend over for a surprise.
• France and Russia have this treaty going on, whereby if one of them gets beaten up by a big kid then the other one comes running to their aid. France always thought they had the better end of that deal, but not so this time. Dutifully, France mobilises their drunken minions for war against Germany despite previously being thought to be neutral. Germany points big fuck-off cannons at them and tells them to continue eating cheese as though nothing was happening.
• France discards all of their cheese and continues handing out French bread-shaped rifles. Germany, rapidly running out of lube, prepares to teach the French a lesson they won't soon forget too.
• Germany wants to invade France through Belgium, possibly wishing to pick up some Stella Artois along the way. The Belgians understandably don't a gang of ale-swilling soldiers stampeding through their rolling green plains, messing up the place with their army boots. They tell the Germans to keep off their lawn, and the Germans ignore them.
• Britain, feeling left out by this point, has a defence agreement with Belgium due to the enormous demand for Stella Artois generated by the large chav communities living on their island. In a posh voice matched only by movie villains, they promptly remind Germany of that fact. Germany doesn't really want to piss off Britain, with their swarms of chavs and their obsession with OMFG LOL LOTZ OV REALY BIG SHIPZ WIV REALY BIG GUNZ LOL, but they are committed to picking up some crates of lager and go ahead.
• As the German rampage through Belgium begins to disrupt the flow of Stella, and chavs across the British Isles begin to revolt, the British have little choice but to declare war on Germany. Joining their French and Russian allies in muddy ditches, hordes of cockney geezers flood the mainland.
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• Much shooting and bombing ensues. Still completely comfused as to why exactly they are shooting at each other, Allied and Central forces troops regularly get together for friendly games of football in the mud. At every such event, each side discretely plants a hand grenade inside the football 'just for kicks'.
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• The Germans sink a ship carrying Americans across the Atlantic, claiming that they were supplying armaments to their now-mortal enemies, the British. The Americans were furious, informing the Germans that no American citizen travels anywhere without a suitcase full of rifle-grade ammunition and a large naval gun. The President informs the Kaiser that he was "really quite miffed at the moment."
• Still giggling, and clearly taking sadistic pleasure in prodding America in the ribs, Germany also promises to help Mexico in their efforts to send millions more illegal immigrants across the border, provided that they declare war on the US. Despite pressure to ignore the war and simply turn it into an entertaining popcorn flick afterwards, the United States of America finally decides to do what they do best - shoot at anything that moves with an insane number of guns.
• Yelling their traditional 'oorah' and 'booyakashak' battlecries as loud as they could, the Americans send trillions of commandos and billions of powerful warships to engage the three remaining German soldiers hiding in a trench outside Berlin. Caught on a sneaky sausage break, the Germans surrender, and America wins the war, much to the surprise of the natives. Somewhere in the middle of this five second engagement, Russia bows out of the war to start a naturist community or something.
• A young Adolf Hitler escapes the devastation in his prototype TIE Fighter, and begins plotting his revenge.
• Germany gets repeatedly gang-banged by a group of smug British, French, and American politicians - as they labour under the harsh Versailles Treaty, they begin to produce bigger sausages than they have ever made before, hoping one day to return the favour with interest.
• The end...?

The Black Hand terrorists survive to this day. This year they plan to commit suicide by taking almost double the recommended dose of paracetamol in one day. We all wish them well, and look forward to seeing how they try to kill themselves next year.

The First World War in a nutshell, really.

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A flag for the "British Indian Ocean Territory".

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