During this years Canvas a group of us worked on a project to have EU or European flags surround the European Union flag. All was going well until a few individuals wanted to start acting like little shits and intentionally adding non European flags to the group.

They replaced Hungary with Ukraine which whatever just rebuild it elsewhere. Then they started putting Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Esperanto on the mural. Once we finally got Hungary back on the board, they started to intentionally mess up the flag over virtue signaling politics when these same people admitted they don't even participate in their own countries democratic system.

The Simple solution

All these people had to do was put a different EUROPEAN flag that wasn't already on in the place of Hungary and no one would have cared, but they demanded on intentionally trying to fuck the whole thing up.

Drama

We ended up going back and forth for hours, and they refused such ideas as Scotland, I also tried Armenia, Georgia anything that was actually in Europe and then tried to say these countries were Asian not European. It got heated and they kicked us a few times. In the end they forced the ugly compromise keeping their stupid little flowers and grass on the board.

Conclusion

This whole ordeal explains perfectly why we're in the mess we are in today, to many Gen Y and Gen Z would rather show "look at me I am a good person I stand for X/Y/Z" instead of actually trying to make real change. These people don't vote, don't get involved with politics, yet they will protest for months, come on these little projects and try and prove a point.

The people acting like Brazil which had legally mandated "race democracy" until the 1980s was a better choice than Hungary or any other actual European country that wasn't added already, same with the clowns putting South Africa. They couldn't let things be but they'll talk about how "I don't want to vote for this person who's way less awful but not perfect"

So congratulations you messed up the mural for the EU the most successful international organization that has brought peace, prosperity, democracy and human rights to a whole continent because you wanted to look like a good person without any knowledge of the history of why the country is the way it is.