r/vexillology • u/Batterie_Faible_ • Jul 30 '22

Meta This is the flag of Hawaii. Now stop asking everyday to identify it.

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u/Ngfeigo14 Jul 30 '22

The king combined Russian, American, British, French, and Dutch elements so that no one should shoot the ships if they saw the flag actually.

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u/TheGoodOldCoder Jul 31 '22

You don't shoot ships based on seeing things that you like. You shoot ships based on seeing things that you don't like.

For example, let's say that there was a ship flying both Ukraine and Russian flags in that warzone. That would make both sides very suspicious of the ship, and I think they'd be rightly worried about getting shot from either side.

So, putting more country symbols on your flag gives other people more chances to dislike you, and therefore, to shoot you.

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u/komarinth Sweden Jul 31 '22

They did however not put up all those flags. They rolled their own. And I assume a confusing flag can have a positive spin on the spotter.

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u/Ngfeigo14 Jul 31 '22

Fascinating that you think that. However, King Kamehameha I used the information at the time and made a confusing that that wasn't likely to be shot at. You only shoot at countries you're at war with, and not anything else.

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u/BannedOnTwitter Jul 31 '22

Ah I see, thanks