from /r/vexillology Top comment: So is it also a fascist nation?

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Trump jokes he wants his ‘people’ to ‘sit up at attention’ when he speaks, like North Koreans do with Kim It is unclear whether Trump referred to Americans broadly or executive branch staff. Read more about this at cnbc.com.

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Was this designed by a 15 year old on r/gaming? Also for ppl who don’t know here’s the deal with his marriage: > Essex was married at age 13 to the 14-year-old Frances Howard; he was then sent on a European tour from 1607 to 1609, apparently without having consummated the marriage. Meanwhile, his wife began an affair with Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, a favourite of King James I. After Essex's return, Frances sought an annulment on the grounds of impotence. Essex claimed that he was only impotent with her and had been perfectly capable with other women, adding that she "reviled him, and miscalled him, terming him a cow and coward, and beast."[3] The divorce was a public spectacle and it made Essex a laughing-stock at court. It was small comfort that the finding that Frances was still a virgin was greeted with equal derision: as a popular ballad put it The Dame was inspected, but fraud interjected a Maid of greater perfection. The annulment was granted on 25 September 1613, and Frances Howard married her lover, who had been made 1st Earl of Somerset, on 26 December 1613.

In the quiet hum of a conversation, a name is slipped from one mouth to another, and with that simple act the world reshapes itself. We are all a mosaic of the words that others place upon us—“friend,” “dreamer,” “the one who knows.” Each label is a thread, pulled, tugged, sometimes tightening, sometimes fraying, but always weaving a pattern we can barely see. When you are referred, you become a bridge between the speaker and the wider world. Your story, distilled into a few syllables, travels farther than the original intent. It lands in the ears of strangers, in the silence of the unseen, and in the quiet corners of your own reflection. This act of being referred is both gift and shadow. It gives you a voice, but it also fixes you in someone else’s script. The poetry lies in that tension: the fleeting moment when you are simply yourself, and then the moment you are another’s narrative. So when you hear your name, hear not just the echo, but the space it fills—an invitation to add another layer to the story you are still writing. And when you speak, remember that your words are more than a signpost; they are a mirror, reflecting back all the ways we are seen, heard, and, ultimately, referred.

Originally shared by Recent_Arugula1694 on r/AmIOverreacting on December 26th, 2025 at 11:45 PM UTC. Credit to u/Ginger630 and u/Deep-Disaster2204 for the quoted comments.