DC's Flag Was Forced On It, Like Everything Else

[iammrbeat]

It's always an honor to collaborate with you. You are a true professional and also just a darn good person. Hopefully your channel will start to regain some momentum, beginning with the flag dorks coming to watch this. 🙂

[yoitssami]

I always thought our flag needed just something a little bit more to make it more interesting and now I wish they had incorporated the helmet or feather parts or Washington’s coat of arms into the flag because it looks really cool.

[alexj]

Glad you're back :) hope you're doing well

[dunnowy]

This is so weird, I was just looking back for your Taiwan video and wondered when you'd be coming back. Glad to see you posting again bro!

[NicoleGlass]

Been living here for over a decade and never knew the history about the flag. Very interesting. Thanks for a well-researched video!

[Bleeding_Tsar]

Wake up babe, new William C Fox video.

[DaviddeKloet]

While a mile is approximately 1.6 km, a square mile is not 1.6 square km but rather 1.6^2 = 2.56 square km.
But more importantly, 10 miles squared is 100 square miles.

[garrettallen]

“D.C. flag was forced upon it like everything else…”

THANK GOD! Can you imagine what monstrosity our national capitols flag would look like if that were not the case? Looking at city flags gives me nightmares!

[christianweibrecht]

You're alive, how did you survive your helicopter crash in the Thai jungle?

[obelix]

We definitely need representation, but until then I’d really appreciate it if MOCs stopped threatening to do stuff to DC out of spite (like Andrew Clyde did recently).

[wgolyoko]

Hey, glad to see you :) Super-interesting little history lesson.

[davestrasburg]

lnteresting video, about something l knew very little about.

[johnnybadboy]

2:16 that’s Arlington, not Alexandria!

[Kman]

i know its very odd request, but could you do a video about chicago's flag that sometimes is overlooked and mistaken from D.C.'s flag.

[cynthiastout]

Cynthia Norton will expect a reason for going out of bounds to keep my overdue checks?

[vianabdullah]

DC not having federal representation really does represent the downsides of the United States' ultra-rigid constitution. For most other countries, allowing citizens of the literal capital to have the same rights as the rest of the country is a no-brainer. In Australia, even though Canberra isn't in a state, it stil elects MPs to the House and Senate.

[robertortiz-wilson]

Somebody help! I can't find any sympathy to give!

[jamisongillespie]

You live in DC now! It's a fun city.

[klutterkicker]

If DC were made a state it would, surprisingly, be only the 3rd smallest state in population.
If Puerto Rico were made a state it would be bigger than 21 others.
I guess what I'm saying is, keep the states at 50 but get rid of Wyoming and Vermont.

[perperald]

The usual crap about flags. Flags evolved from the standards of military units, the Romans had a pole with the usual horsns, or a boars head, and some other things, so the soldiers would find their unit on the battle ground. This 10 feet pole with the stuff on it, often also included a painted or embroidered motif hanging horisontally from a staff affixed crosswise to the pole.

They called this the unit's vexillvm (vexillum).

Ships that was fighting each others needed a way to sort friend form foe, and flags from the top mast was the obious solution.
Merchant ships was legal booty for countries in war against each other, for nay ships an privateers alike, so shipowners let their ships fly their country's ensign, illegally claimed the king, but this was sorted out.

Flags function is to identify, they have no intrinsic neaning or whatever, they are there to separate friend form foe.


Flags must be easy to identify on a long distance, and easy to aew up, oe paint on a poiece of cloth, rhat is why the seal flags from most of the states in the US is meaningless, and that lady's suggestion with the capital dome surrounded by bigger stars is horrible.

Flags are marks, not emblemas, symbols or signs (Except signal flags then..) The y do not mean anything else than what yourself puts in it.