that slighly offcenter red stripe is gonna bug me
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"The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field."
Seems correct.
After reading the article on Wikipedia, it seems they have more rules about handling the flag than the Catholics have about the cross. And they don't follow around 2/3 of them, especially the MAGA types.
Edit: This made me read the code about my country's flag. A lot of the same stupid rules. This one made me burst out laughing: "If a flag is to stay out after dusk it should be well lit". Is it fucking afraid of the dark?
I think your description of the American flag is out of date. We only had 48 stars from 1912-1959. Though that does mean a lot of the most iconic depictions of the flag do fit this.
i'll be in the cold cold ground before i recognize missourah. or utah.
Flags when not in a well lit environment:
That one seems pretty standard. Either you take it down at sunset and put it up at sunrise, or you leave it up 24/7, and you need to have it lit up.
The weirder one for me is that you have to burn the flag if it touches the ground
That's a myth. But don't let the flag touch the ground is still stupid.
Naw it does always have to be within light. It comes from the revolutionary war "and our flag was still there"; in that our nation shall never see darkness. Sadly, unrelated to flag standards, that very much has not been the case.
In this house we stand for the flag, and kneel after putting on a collar
Heck I'll kneel to put the collar on. Except for fascists. We don't kneel for those.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code
Although this is a U.S. federal law, the code is not mandatory: it uses non-binding language like "should" and "custom" throughout and does not prescribe any penalties for failure to follow the guidelines. It was "not intended to prescribe conduct" and was written to "codify various existing rules and customs."
Holy based flag :3 mrrreow meow
Meooow mrrroow :3
Do you go "meow meow" in every comment you make? If so, based
Yes meow meow :3 not every but almost :3
We should all strife for more mrrreeoow in our comments
:3
Mew mew based
nah. I prefer the original one.
don't like empires, esp. that enslaved.
meow meow
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this is very jem coded and i loveit so much
is there anything specifying the stripes have to be separated by white or can the all be placed next to each other, or that the stars can't be placed on top of the white? 🏳️⚧️
a comment above explained the real rules but in short alternate red and white stripes and stars have to be on blue background
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
While this is quite amusing, the Wikipedia article on the US flag code does not seem to agree and prescribes a specific design.