Upcoming Revolution Flag and Anthem Contest

Ok, we need a new flag for the Revolution. This one ain't cutting it. Too divisive, too violent, too much of a dirty history, too Trump like, the other side can keep it. We'll create a new one. I'm not all that big on flags but apparently as humans we're hardwired to need them. We'll have to work with human nature accordingly.

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This one isn't working either, it's unbecoming of the patriots who say they're patriots who say we all MUST stand at attention to an imperialist flag, put our hands on our hearts and sing along to a 200 year old racist poem when we attend any professional and college sporting event. Makes them look silly. I think if some had their way, we'd have to sing the damn thing every time we went into a grocery store, watched a movie, or attended a rock concert. Just go all the way why doncha.

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The new flag should be suitable for the upcoming Revolution. Maybe something like this one:

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Or perhaps something like this for a global working class people's revolution.

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We could perhaps go with something like this in the United States of Manifest Destiny to support the revolutionary struggle for freedom, liberty and equality.

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We also need a new anthem. The current one, written as a poem by a racist anti-abolitionist a couple hundred years ago is absurd. "Bombs bursting in air, our flag was still there"? " Land of the free, home of the brave"? God, how stupid. Grade school shit taken seriously at the highest levels. What are we, grade schoolers or humans? Maybe it doesn't matter. WTF, is this real? Is anything real? You don't know, admit it.

My favorite would be this one just because it's cool, and it's got a message that would keep us revolutionairies on message.

"What's going on?"
"You know what's going on."
"Ya, far out"

[video:https://youtu.be/jo-5MI9-yjU]

Or maybe this one from Steve Earle which was popular during the long ago, almost forgotten, did it really happen, Occupy Wall Street protests.

[video:https://youtu.be/EG8ZUaLACZ8]

We could go a little hardcore in consonance with the purpose of the revolution. Imagine this being played before every NFL football game. Imagine all the prudes cringing in their skyboxes while drinking their martinis at this one. Trying figuring out how to march out your military, vets and cops with this one you close minded conservative assholes.

[video:https://youtu.be/Q3dvbM6Pias]

Those are just some examples to get people thinking about the upcoming contest prior to the beginning of the Global People's Revolution. The contest is intended to maximize initial participation and interest while broadcasting the purpose, scope and intensity of the revolution against the ruling class.

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detroitmechworks's picture

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csRB0NC6r4o]

Nothing against the US, but I have a great deal of regional pride. Since folks fight for their neighbors, this is one that I'd happily support.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

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@detroitmechworks I was thinking about a flag with the same colors. Blue for clean water, white for clean air, and green for sustainability of our environment. There would be absolutely zero red in my flag because red stands for all the blood the empire has shed the world over. The empire must fall and goodness and stewardship of earth and for all human beings must replace it.

Yeah, I know that I am waxing idealistic as I get ready to do my morning walk today. Yes 3

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

detroitmechworks's picture

@gulfgal98 The region makes sense from a geographic and national identity point of view.

I still occasionally see a Cascadia bumper sticker.

I'd have no problem with it, and would happily put in a few of my remaining years in service to such a country.

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Big Al's picture

As a PNWer, I particularly like the flag.

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@Big Al as far as revolution songs, I like the traditional ones that somebody of my ethnicity would be expected to like. What can I say, it just, to put paraphrase the bard, "summons up the blood." Smile
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZku2REI-Xs]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxpXLTcQ6aE]

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thanatokephaloides's picture

@detroitmechworks

as far as revolution songs, I like the traditional ones that somebody of my ethnicity would be expected to like. What can I say, it just, to put paraphrase the bard, "summons up the blood."

I'm surprised that I'm recommending Sabaton to you:

[video:https://youtu.be/Oi7xBe5-M8k]

Wink

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

we can call the movement SNEK

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Acronyms for SNEK?

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Big Al's picture

@JtC I'll ponder.

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mimi's picture

@JtC @JtC [edited to clarify and grammar mistakes]
if translated from dutch to German and 'Schnecken' are the most courageous revolutionaries around as you can see here:
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(The "Association of Megalomaniac Snails" shout to one of its member, Horst Rüdiger, who threatens the elephant to "trample, crush and crunch" him, to hold it and come back). (me - BTW I don't know Mr. Horst Rüdiger, so if he has been a wolf in sheep clothes of the academic kind, forgive me, otherwise tell me I should not be such a distrusting naive paranoid coward).

SNEK = Snail's Neighborhood Execution Kamikaze

or

SNEK = Simply Not Electable Knaves

(I would say in this context "Step on the SNEKs").

Just FYI, sometimes I like me my Hollywood-istas:
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Against All Flags

I am really against all flags. Didn't we have enough of them?

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@JtC @JtC a snek! a snek! oooh it's a snek! Edit: This is what happens when I unblock youtube, the strange, there is so much of it. I had no idea that religions admire sheep like that, or maybe I forgot. Feels like I've not seen anything like that before, now I know. Thanks youtube, thanks all. Still stuck reversing the fla (four letter acronym), I like mimi's those are good.
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badger badger badger
mushroom mushroom

SNEK
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I like "All One Sheeple".

I wonder if Vice President Mike Pence plays it all day long
Baa, baa, baa, baa
omf

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@JtC

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dfarrah

snoopydawg's picture

dafuq is a SNEK?
long, carnivorous, legless reptiles I think this fits with what we're fighting against. Soulless, craven, corrupt, malicious, venal, depraved, malignant Sneks!
When do we start

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Lookout's picture

and wrote a song about it (3.5 min):
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtL7Esf6tc]

Pete Seeger - The Torn Flag

At midnight in some flaming angry town
I saw my country's flag lying torn upon the ground.
I ran in and dodged among the crowd,
And scooped it up, and scampered out to safety.

And then I took this striped old piece of cloth
And tried my best to wash the garbage off.
But I found it had been used to wrapping lies.
It smelled and stank and attracted all the flies.

While I was feverishly at my task,
I heard a husky voice that seemed to ask:
"Do you think you could change me just a bit?
Betsy Ross did her best, but she made a few mistakes.

My blue is good, the color of the sky.
The stars are good for ideals, oh, so high.
Seven stripes of red are strong to meet all danger;
But those white stripes: they, they need some changing.

I need also some stripes of deep, rich brown,
And some of tan and black, then all around
A border of God's gracious green would look good there.
Maybe you should slant the stripes, then I'd not be so square."

I woke and said, "What a ridiculous story.
Don't let anybody say I suggested tampering with Old Glory."
But tonight it's near midnight, and in another flaming town
Once again I hear my country's flag lies torn upon the ground.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

I did grow up there after all.

I would however prefer the colors green, to show commitment to living with nature as part of nature, and gold to show support for regenerative farming and the true gold of honest working people, whether farmers, crafts persons or others who love their neighbors and do a good days work, whether it be Drs. who make house calls or small factories which make useful products (and don't pollute while doing so).

Personally, I am not inspired by a song from popular culture. I have always liked America the Beautiful.

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Mary Bennett

mimi's picture

country and my first thought - looking at it - was: "How much would I have to pay the people of this "ranking site" to make them change their ranking to please those who fund them?

The Most Corrupt Countries in the World

heh, trust is a bitch, isn't it?
[video:https://youtu.be/-1dFn7Fc3FY]

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The Aspie Corner's picture

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wcd2f1tY0k]

And just for talking to Julian Assange. The RepubliDemocratic Capitalist Uniparty must die.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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Is This Land is Your Land

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I think this is the only revolutionary flag left. It represents (hopefully, quite obviously) the Earth, in space. (It should really be much smaller and in a lower corner somewhere insignificant.

It's high time, that we realize, all that all of us have, all that we have ever had, has been here, on this small rocky ball with liquid water on the surface. ...(Gravitationaly tethered to a small star that has burned through half of it's fuel, and will one day collapse and supernova till it expands to such diameter it will swallow Jupiter.... )

Ultimately there aren't any divisions on Earth, only imagined constructs, that people have been blinded into accepting. We are all in this together, like it or not.

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