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My favorite cringe story about lighting things up in the colors of a nation's flag is when Sweden at the start of the Ukraine war made the baffling decision to show solidarity with Ukraine by lighting up city hall and the Stockholm subway in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The problem with this is that the Ukrainian flag has the exact same colors as the Swedish flag, and since the lamps had already been installed for years they just turned them on on their default setting, just like they had done about once a week whenever there was any kind of national event, no matter how small. But this time it was for Ukraine, not a friendly football game against Slovakia or the queen's birthday or a Eurovision song contest or any of the other reasons they had turned on those exact same lights hundreds of times before. And THAT is how you do a TRULY empty gesture folks.
the queen's birthday
This is a huge tangent but I always find it funny when I'm reminded Sweden has a monarchy
descended from one of Napoleon's marshals who was made king iiirc
When Napoléon came back, he actually asked Bernadotte to come and help him, to which Bernadotte promptly replied 'Get the fuck out of here loser lol, lmao even'
Peak socialism
I'm mad at Ukraine for slightly ruining blue and yellow for me, my favorite color combination my whole life. At least I procrastinated long enough on getting the neat blue and yellow camo pants I wanted thats it's no longer an issue
They are also the colors of the EU flag!
...I'm sorry. I realize that I am further ruining your perfectly harmless enjoyment of a pretty nice color combination.
Blue and yellow also belongs to the shittiest Planetside faction
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