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let's gooooo welcome to king félix county

félix, while you're in charge can you level downtown bellevue thanks in advance

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also, obligatory local history reminder:

  • the original namesake of King County was William R. King, VP under Franklin Pierce for about a month and a half and noted opponent to the abolition of slavery
  • in 1986, the county changed its namesake to Martin Luther King and this was pretty impossible to object to
  • in 2006, the county changed its flag from a cool yellow-on-green crown to a weirdly blobby silhouette of MLK's face over the words "King County" in a slightly lopsided-feeling grotesk typeface, which I think is one of the worst vexillological decisions this state has ever made
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sirocyl
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I thought I'd hate the pizza here, coming from New York and all - but stopping at Olympia III/Harry's Bar up in Cap Hill last night completely put those fears to rest. Hot hell above, that pizza was excellent 🤩

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yep! when I was a kid (elementary school in '91-'96) we all learned that MLK was the namesake of the county in school, so I have no idea why they decided they needed to change the logo

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dwoboyle
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I like the MLK logo better. It's still somehow manges to look like him while being pretty simple. The old logo is very much a "this place used to be named after a slaver" municipality logo. Or like a logo for some haughty high class beer that's actually super cheap.

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I'm in Seattle this week after having lived my whole life in Long Island, and one of the first things that stood out to me is that logo.

I don't know why I like it, maybe because it actually feels like it belongs to this millenium, and not some weirdly ex-English order of imperialist loyalists who decided this world needed a second Southampton for some reason

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yeah, I mean, the big thing I would say as someone who's spent 26 of the last 32 years living here is that the city of seattle also runs the place like an order of imperialist loyalists who decided that this world needs a second southampton for some reason -- they just have a better sense of branding and want it to be southampton, NY instead of southampton, UK

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