Xuu 🌹(he/him) ☮️🗽🚀Jul 4, 2023
Katanova the Sunpunk
My favorite intention-warping meme of late is "this is a technically compliant US flag according to the US flag code"
Jun 9, 2023 at 12:18amWeb
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 9, 2023

So, who's going to get one of these professionally printed, and then make some conservatives brains explode when they're told it's a US flag?

Because at this point, the Flag Code isn't changing. The US gov't isn't going to revise it for specificity for some people goofing with the design.

Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 9, 2023

This is the new flag that will be flown across America.

The trans-american flag if you will

I will not apologize.

Show threadMobile Suit GolemJun 11, 2023
@Anarkat
This is quite possibly the best joke I have seen all week. Thank you.
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 11, 2023
@kpopncommunism
You're welcome.
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 9, 2023

Fuck it, what the fuck is stopping me from making these myself?

hold on, gotta reach out to some folks.

Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsJun 9, 2023
@Anarkat Should I make a similar such maliciously compliant flag
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 9, 2023

@ellenor2000
Yes.

Be the chaos.

Show threadAlex, the Hearth FireJun 10, 2023
@Anarkat I would like to buy several of these
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 9, 2023
Call this flag "make america tell me I'm a good girl again"
Show threadJeremy KahnJun 9, 2023
@Anarkat inclusive malicious compliance > malicious compliance >> compliance
Show threadAusirJun 9, 2023
@Anarkat 🫡
Show threadenshittified catgirlJun 9, 2023
@Anarkat not to be That Guy, but it does. There's a wholeass technical diagram with ratios embedded in the flag code. The one thing the US government is good at is pedantic diagrams
Show threadGadfly (-booq-)Jun 9, 2023
@neko @Anarkat The specify the order of colors allowed in bunting, and like fully nobody listens to it. It rules.
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 9, 2023

@neko I will accept that there is a diagram describing the precise layout of the flag, and assert that, under a "founding fathers" approach to US regulations, they don't matter.

If conservatives can ignore every bit of social progress made in the country to suit their own ends, why can't we ignore every bit of design progress made in the US flag, and declare that the US flag is whatever we want it to be, with a specific focus on malicious compliance?

Show threadwb x64Jun 9, 2023
@neko @Anarkat oh my wow, they took the opportunity of the 50th state to go full Late Fifties Engineering Draftsman Hand Lettering. Autism approved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code#/media/File%3AUS_Flag_spec_TIOH_5-1-17_1967.jpg
United States Flag Code - Wikipedia

Show threadGadfly (-booq-)Jun 9, 2023

@Anarkat The US flag code is so fun. Nationalism and all the unironic trappings of state-as-identity can go screw themselves, but I love it so much as a thing that exists.

Basically every single bit of bunting you've ever seen is against the law. Flag-burning is not only significantly less forbidden than flag tanktops and fourth-of-july-napkins, but can in fact be argued to be positively suggested. The flag is itself considered a living thing.

Show threadwb x64Jun 9, 2023
@gaditb @Anarkat flag burning is *mandated* as a disposal method for old flags IIRC
Show threadGadfly (-booq-)Jun 11, 2023

@wilbr @Anarkat Recommended, not mandated. (Some people do burial, e.g.) The phrasing is specifically "preferably" -- in full:
"""
(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
"""

But here's the thing.
The flag becoming(/being in general) a symbol of brutal oppression and racism, of ever-reaching imperialism, of violent nationalism...

... how can that condition be anything BUT "no longer a fitting emblem for display"!

Show threadashleyJun 9, 2023
@Anarkat @astrid but this has 15 stripes, two of which are blue, and no union (canton). “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.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.)”
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 9, 2023

@rabcyr
You are correct

And it doesn't matter.

Show thread Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑Jun 9, 2023
@Anarkat Yeah but no conservative texas women will wear it as a string bikini. Or WILL they...?
Show threadSinbadTheSailorJun 9, 2023

@Anarkat They might have missed this part:

"The flag of the United States for the purpose of this chapter shall be defined according to sections 1 and 2 of this title AND Executive Order 10834 issued pursuant thereto." [Emphasis mine]

EO 10834 (plus the attachment) says where the stars and lines go.

Show threadEnne is at [email protected]Jun 9, 2023
@Anarkat It would be lovely if you could add a caption. 🙏
Show threadIceykitsuneJun 9, 2023
@Anarkat Except that the Flag code does actually specify that particular corner. Union is another name for Canton.
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 9, 2023
@Iceykitsune
Don't care, trans-American flag is funny.
Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Jun 10, 2023
@Anarkat Image description:
Tweet by Yang Wen-li, June 5th: I feel obligated to point out that the US flag code does not specify where the blue field is placed, how thick the stripes are, or what shade the colors of everything is, so this is a 100% code compliant American flag.
Picture: A flag that first looks like the trans pride flag. Light blue at the top and bottom with 25 white stars each. Then 3 pink stripes with very narrow white stripes. Center: Two white strips with narrow pink stripe.
Show threadPJ "Vote Green" CoffeyJul 6, 2023

@GreenSkyOverMe
@Anarkat

Thanks Monika! Alt-text is very important for the rather large community of blind and partially sighted people on the Fediverse. 😀

Fortunately there's an edit function to display its technical superiority. :-9

Show threadJeff ByrnesJun 10, 2023
@Anarkat @crystalvisits Hehe love this
Show threadMrRadarJun 10, 2023
@Anarkat
Show threadvriska, thief of light Jun 10, 2023
@Anarkat it's also blatantly not true???? it's pretty specific about the dimensions and there's an admittedly separate official standard designating the colors
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 11, 2023

@leo
Doesn't matter, the world is what we make it.

This is a US flag because I believe it is.

Show threadAlex, the Hearth FireJun 10, 2023
@Anarkat #caption4u a trans pride flag with pinstripes and tiny stars to make it technically a US flag
Show threadFlorian 'floe' EchtlerJun 10, 2023
@Anarkat Malicious compliance at its best, kudos 👌
Show threadDieuJun 12, 2023
@Anarkat huge if true
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 12, 2023
@hllizi It's not technically true, but it's true in my heart.
Show threadalsterJun 12, 2023
@Anarkat
The only headache is the blue field, though there's no description of how many, just "a".

Neat, and here are some sources:

"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.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642.)"

Also stars can only be added, not removed:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/2

And the president can change the flag:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States#Specifications
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/1#tab_default_1
4 U.S. Code § 2 - Same; additional stars

LII / Legal Information Institute
Show threadstbJun 12, 2023
@Anarkat My wife looked up the original tweet, and it's a guy on reddit who made it, but it's private: https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillologycirclejerk/
putting the lol in vexillology • r/vexillologycirclejerk

make fun of /r/vexillology, or flags [/r/vexillologycirclejerk will be going dark between June 12 and June 14. Click here for more...

reddit
Show threadKatanova the SunpunkJun 12, 2023
@stb Lots of subreddits went private this weekend to protest reddit being a shit Corp
Show threadDFYXJun 12, 2023

@Anarkat I would argue that (sadly) this is not a compliant flag because the flag code specifies „a blue field“ and this has two. Maybe connect them with a bit of blue on the hoist side?

This would also technically make it a „thin blue line“ flag, further annoying a certain kind of people.

Show threadTimothy Schwinghamer (he/him)Jun 15, 2023

@Anarkat in #Canada, there's federal governmental protocol for the correct placement of the Progress Pride flag. That is, the #Pride flag is expected to be raised during Pride Season at federal institutions.

#2SLGBTQI+

Show threadautumnagainJun 27, 2023
@Anarkat we should make this the official US flag
Show threadFuchsiii~~~Jun 28, 2023
@Anarkat and this is the only correct form
Show threadQwertypdebJul 4, 2023
@Anarkat I have no idea who you are, but this is somewhat interesting or something. I can imagine some "patriots" or something raging over this or something, lol.
Show threadRoss of OttawaJul 4, 2023
@Anarkat good symmetry
Show threadSteven SandovalJul 5, 2023
@Anarkat What was Reinhard von Lohengramm's response? https://gineipaedia.com/wiki/Yang_Wen-li #lotgh #gineiden #銀英伝
Yang Wen-li - Gineipaedia, the Legend of Galactic Heroes wiki

Show threadMagicLike 🏳️‍🌈Jul 5, 2023
@Anarkat !B
"The image shows a screenshot of a Tweet showing a with the US flag code compliant flag in the colors of the Transgender flag. In the top and bottom the stars are placed, whilst the middle is willed with pink stripes of different thickness on a white background."