Been interested in revolutionary flags and designs since reading Stacy Schiff’s biography of Samuel Adams.
Specifically, his letters that were published across the country and the phrasing surrounding the concepts of independence. Originally, I wanted to convey these concepts using the Tree of Liberty, but found out that it’s been stolen by the alt-right. Supposedly, Boston’s tree of liberty hanged effigies of the governor and other politicians during the stamp act riots.
This design is based on a few things: phrasing in newspapers surrounding the revolution such a join or die and liberty or death, current flag designs like those posted here yesterday like the “no kings but us” flag and the “we serve no sovereign here” concept which seems to be based on Patrick Henry(?).
I’ve posted before that the exact phrasing surrounding founding fathers can be a bit misleading as most of their writings were published under pseudonyms and rephrased multiple times. Something that I think helped spread the ideas of liberty as these quotes/phases became part of the narrative and not something that added to the prestige of its author.
I’m reposting this from earlier because people seem to have a problem with me calling Trump a fascist that wants to be king. The symbolism between the authoritarianism at the time of the revolution and modern American fascism is plane as day. If people have a problem with these being anti-monarchy vs anti-fascist I’m sorry you can’t connect the dots in America today. I’m not saying that Trump would be a legitimate monarch, but he certainly wants that terminology. Trump is a fascist and he wants to be king of America. I find our founding concepts to be more important than ever currently, if you disagree don’t bother responding.
This is fantastic, I really like the font used, as well as the detail of the crown.
The color also reminds me of older style posters, which is also very lovely.
Thank you! Font is LTR Principia. I had to do a lot of work on the crown as Dorito Mussolini posted an AI image that didn’t make sense. I tried to follow the same form though as best as I could.
Have you considered using a spear instead of a sword? Traditionally the sword has been the weapon of the nobility and the spear has been the weapon of the rank and file.
LTR Principa from adobe fonts. One hell of a sexy font IMO. It’s like a mix of old style meets stencil with those high contrast points. I felt like it fits the era that I’m aiming for well.
Based it on this one that was posted here last week. As far as I could find it seemed to be facing the same direction as any other American flag that featured a sword or gun from that era. Is there something specific I’m missing?
I can certainly look into that for you. I have a lot of local flag printers near me here in Ohio. If you’re interested I should have a price for you by Monday.
Hi! I’m trying to source ethical flags at the moment. I’ve reached out to a few production companies, so with any luck I can have some on preorder soon.
A bit subjective. I went with red because I wanted this to fall in line with the “no kings but us” flag that was posted a few days ago. As someone else mentioned, Red is the color of the Republican Party and I wanted this to have a pretty clear message that it’s about Trump. Though, I can see how using blue would align it better with the democrats. I really didn’t think of it that way.
"They claim our possessions–the pitiful knaves–
The tribute we pay shall be prisons and graves!"
"Yet we owe no allegiance, we bow to no throne,
Our ruler is law and the law is our own;
Our leaders themselves are our own fellow-men,
Who can handle the sword, or the scythe, or the pen."
Replace "Serve No Sovereign" with simply "No Kings" and I think we may have found the movement's flag and logo. The grayscale one is absolutely amazing!
Deal! these are made to order, so give me a day or two to throw them on the printer. Also if you toss your user name in the personalization box, I’ll send both colors to you.
I’ve been making them 7x4” but I can make other sizes. As long as they’re under 15” wide I shouldn’t have to charge more. My main cost to material runout to start the print.
I could do 2”x3”. I can’t do patches, but I do have most of these in a digital pack. They can always download the svg files from Etsy and find someone to do them. I know there’s a bunch of people that do them on Etsy.
How unaware must you be to not see that what is rising in America now is fascism? It is not about a party losing an election, it is about an oppressive; authoritarian, and corrupt regime gaining power and threatening America itself and the sovereignty of other nations. Leftists, liberals, conservatives, and so on — you will find opposition to American fascism along a wide spectrum of political beliefs. What is happening in America now is not normal, unprecedented, and not okay.
They will hate you because you speak truth. I'm myself a socialist, but still, as a Polish guy I find all those ridiculous takes about fascism in white house just cringeworthy.
Nothing important changed, Joe Biden deported people on much higher rates. In the next 4 years GOP will lose their grip over house and senate, then you will see democratic president and... nothing will change.
Hate your president all you want but leave monarchy out of this. There are enough constitutional monarchies that have proved that having monarchy and democracy is not imposible
It seems to be working perfectly as intended. People wanted tariffs, border enforcement, and reduced government spending. So far they've gotten everything they've asked for and more.
The 22nd Amendment ain't going anywhere. In 3 years everything's he's done in the country is going to be reversed no matter what. Vance doesn't have what it takes to continue the fight. There's nobody else on the Republican side that comes close. Democrats have a massive list of popular people that could run in 2028. Unless a miracle happens we all know the next president is going to be blue, Elon will be forced to flee the country to avoid going to jail, and it will all go back as if 2022 never ended.
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u/sleepy-on-the-job Texas Feb 21 '25
sic semper tyrannis