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The best new flags of Minnesota

Tom Scott’s weekly newsletter led me to this page ranking 30 of the most, uh, flag design submissions for the state of Minnesota.

And I followed a link from *there* to the complete submissions listing, and whoa boy, do I love some of these.

I don’t even live in Minnesota. Let’s look at my faves anyway.

Symbolism I guess

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Loons and fish are both symbolic to Minnesota (or so I gather from these flag submissions), but what is going on here?

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I feel vaguely threatened.

Why not?

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10/10, no notes.

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Might as well make it official somewhere.

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Let’s make our politics honest for once.

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Old and busted: Trees, mountains, and rivers on flags

The new hotness: Power poles on flags

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Giving Maryland a run for their money, I see.

The Sheer Audacity

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This is the Minnesota 25-cent piece. It’s literally just that.

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One of these, not sure which, was featured in the article I linked above. What they failed to mention was that it was submitted twice, and probably by different people, since it’s not the exact same image.

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The same concept as above, but with actual effort put in, even if writing on a flag is a no-no. I get the feeling this was submitted by some Republican upset about social services existing for people other than themself, so tbh Minnesota should adopt this flag just to spite them.

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For comparison

I couldn’t tell if the Shutterstock logo had been airbrushed off of this submission or not, so I overlaid the two images to try and see, only to then realize that the version on the flag has been *squished vertically*. Why would you do that?

Also? This photo was taken in Canada.

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MURICA

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I hope this bisexual Minnesotan is proud they got submission number 420.

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This was also featured in the article I linked, but I love it. Get fucked, Virginia.

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“Do you think Alaska will notice?”

Eh, fuck it

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If they pick this one they better get a discount on whatever website that is.

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“If it works for them, it’ll work for us.”

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