The original tweet is not even correct in any way. Ilhan Omar is not from Puntland, she’s from Mogadishu. Her father is from the area of Puntland. But Puntland didn’t even exist on a map until 1998 - when Ilhan Omar was 17 years old. No one in her family, including her, ever lived in a place called “Puntland.” Her father was basically from the area that became Puntland, but never lived in it at any time it was referred to as “Puntland.”

Furthermore, the Puntland flag is from 2009 - 14 years after Ilhan Omar’s family was in the United States. Not even her father has any ties to that flag, its extremely modern. Chuds will just find anything to get worked up over.

edit: Puntland didn’t even exist until 3 years after Ilhan Omar’s family was in the United States

edit 2: furthermore, I’d love to see EndWokeness’ source for “largest Somali population in the west” because I don’t think that’s true either. I’m pretty sure London has more Somali people than Minnesota.

The new flag is way cooler. I’m sure vexologists would agree.

That’s not even the flag. This is the template flag they selected. They might go with a variant of it which that flag is one of many possibilities, but they’ll probably just end up going with the template.

Me, after seeing red and green Christmas decorations at the mall: “God damn Moldovans coming over here putting the colours of the Pridnestrovian flag on my mall!”

that’s cool I didn’t know they were getting rid of the shitty old racism one.

Mostly performative, but still cool.

I do dislike this trend towards minimalism in flags, though. Flags should have weapons and fantasy animals and weird symbolism. There was an alternative proposal that I think was like a loon firing laser beams at Wisconsin from its eyes or something.

Edit: The flag should have just said “HA HA FUCK YOU VIRGINIA WE’VE STILL GOT YOUR FLAG” in comic sans.

Old flag is so ugly

First off it’s way too busy, at a distance it doesn’t look like anything

Second, racist as hell

Third, not symmetrical

Just awful, one of the worst flags I’ve ever seen

i’m still fucking pissed that the finalists/winner forced me to agree with CPG grey, wtf are these people declaring it woke for

ah yes the flag with utterly pedestrian provenance and reddit-tier sensibilities: is this ISLAMIC EXTREMISM??

I thought it was the gay fella flag

You think these same people who be angry about a blue/white/orange tricolor, saying it’s too close to the Dutch flag?

These people are very strange to me, wtf is the tweet supposed to mean? That theres an evil plot by the Somalis to take over fucking mini soda? And they are doing this by changing a flag? Like wtf is this?

Seems like some people just want to get angry at random stuff for no reason at all But that what you get when your political ideology is based on hate.

this is so much better than the winning submission that they based it on. i was curious about the motivation of the person who created it so did a little digging. Original submission that was selected was White/Green/Blue with a nato star.

Maybe Zamasu was right after all. What’s with humans and their violent adherence to bigotry?

I really wonder what the reaction would have been to F253 winning. That one was pure gold.

Schlomann is correct. A state apparatus full of people like End Wokeness won’t be able to manage a functioning society for much longer.

Oh no, Somali immigrants getting some acknowledgement, the horror!

where’s the link, :LIB: ❓