Why did tricolor flags become a meme? They are ugly as fuck.

>>2197757
Because liberal regimes are inherently uncreative. America is the exception, as the Stars and Stripes is nice looking.

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>>2197760
>America is the exception, as the Stars and Stripes is nice looking.
[THIS IS WHAT AMERICANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]

Best looking flag is Kazakhstan.

>>2197768
How you interpreted "nice looking" (which it is) to "the best looking flag" is a mystery.

FUCK OFF, RETARD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4

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>>2197768
The Stars and Stripes are pretty aesthetic, idk what you're on about

But Macedonia is best flag

>>2197773
>1 minute in
>calls Canadian flag "well designed"

Fucking dropped

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>>2197773
>when your city flag is actually good
feels good man

>>2197821
Horrid

>>2197776
>7776
so close

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>>2197773
Buenos Aires city flag is pretty good senpai
Hapsburg eagles are a e s t h e t i c as fuck

>>2197773

>well designed flag

>shows the eternal leaf

TRASHED!

>>2197888
Except the flag is so good that it's firmly implanted in your memory to evoke such an emotion.

>>2197821
looks irish

>>2197776
nice singles

>>2197787
Yeah because they stole it from the Greek's during their aesthetic prime

>>2197821
lowkey
wannabe
swastika

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Best looking flag. Don't even bother debating it.

>>2197757

Design by committee.

Eventually someone's just going to throw up their hands and say, "You know what? Fuck you guys, we'll never agree. We'll just rearrange three colored stripes in a way no one else has beat us to and that's that!"

It's like when you and your friends can't decide where to get dinner, except you embarrass your entire nation until its next violent revolution.

serbian flag has an addition
a twoheaded eagle with a crown over his heads

>>2199662
in front of the tricolor meme

>>2198642
>"best looking flag"
>about a fourth of the flag is another state's flag

yeah ok dundee

>>2197768
Tbh the first version of stars and stripes was decent, then they had to go and ruin it by adding more stars.

>>2197757
How come nobody ITT actually answer the question? It's pretty obvious, the tricolors were originally naval flags because they're easily identified, the Netherlands started that trend. You won't be able to recognize ten trillion gorillion elaborate coats of arms on the open sea, so tricolors made it easy.

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>>2197757
The Netherlands (also known as the true heir of the Frankish Empire) had the first tricolor. It was beautiful orange white blue ( later redwhiteblue). Then Russia under Peter the Great copied the Redwhiteblue from the Netherlands, as he admired the Netherlands and the Dutch golden age.

When the Soviet Union fell apart all the european countries took their pan-slavic colors, with a tricolor( based of the Russian flag).

Also the flag of Francia.

>>2197757
All the posts ITT are bullshit. They developed from European heraldry. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_(heraldry)

>>2199823
correction all the posts except for >>2199732, although I would like to see a source for his claim.

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>>2197757
>share the same flag with an african country named "Chad"
my country's shit

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>>2197821
Bitch please

>>2197787
>Imperial japanese Vergina Sun
>Red and Yellow
>best flag
>implying the rising sun flag and the original vergina sun aren't better than this bootleg version

>>2197787
>red/yellow good
>ever

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>>2197757
The country that invented vertical tricolors achieved extraordinary feats so it became a symbol

>>2199732
>the Netherlands started that trend

The Netherlands invented tricolors, France made them popular
The Netherlands invented that flag in the 1600s; yet no one else used them until the French Revolution happened and inspired dozens of countries to adopt that kind of flags

>>2197757
only good tricolour is estonia

There is also a symbolic meaning in the use of tricolors as much as I remember from my studies: while most flags represented dynasties, tricolors represented THE people and so it wanted to make a huge rift with the past regime.

Or at least this is one of the interpretations that had been made. I still think that >2199732 has the most appropriate interpretation

>>2197850
Nice

Nationalism

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>>2197757

>>2198642
>literally a colonial cuck stamp

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>>2200550
personally I think they should go with this

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>>2197757
It's about knowing how to mix colours.

GOOD TIER TRICOLOURS:
>France
>Italy
>Estonia
>Netherlands
>Hungary
>Slavic flags (Serbia, Slovenia, etc)
>German Empire
>Bulgaria

ABSOLUTELY SHIT TIER
>Romania
>Belgium
>Germany
>Lithuania
>Ireland (like Italy, but less original and shit-orange)
>bunch of African states
>Afganistan
>maybe other countries I can't think of right now.

Probably tricolours were the quick and dirty solution back then to make people know "Hey, it's those guys" without being creative at all.

Fuck you, at least maybe put some charges on your flag. A saltire, a cross, a star, a crown, shit something. Pic related is one of my favourite flags.

>>2197760
oh boy, seriously? Does that work in your education system, making something up when you have no clue at all?