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There's a somewhat-unstated division in social progressive circles that goes "being socially inept for autism reasons is fine, but being socially inept for regular reasons is bad and mockable." And then in practice everyone assumes it's for regular reasons when it comes up

Genuinely sat there teetering on the edge of a panic attack watching Keir Starmer talk about how banning kids from social media will "give them their childhoods back" because I can't stop thinking about what it was like to be a lonely scared kid who can barely leave the house but still find friends who are just as weird as you and see youtube videos where people talk about being gay and web series where girls kiss each other and love each other and gradually start feeling like that is less of a shameful thing to want and I do not think this turd of a man has ever had to think about that kind of shit in his life

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the worst part of summer is that people get sooo comfortable expressing their disgust at having to see other people’s bodies. they’re always complaining about wrinkly old men at the nude hot springs or fat women in bikinis at the beach. I hate that shit. if you’re not capable of being normal about bodies you personally don’t find attractive, just turn your head to look at something else! and if you’re not smart enough to do that, then at least do the rest of us the courtesy of suffering in silence, because we don’t wanna hear your weird comments. thanks.

we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are

"if you can say the name in the article why can't you say the name in the headline?" what do you think a headline is for

That's literally just how archbishops were for most of the middle ages. Very authentic.

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So, there are two Civil War songs from the Union side, John Brown's Body and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, that use the same tune. I had always been under the impression that the Battle Hymn of the Republic was first and that the tune was subsequently used for John Brown's Body, but apparently it was the other way around, John Brown's Body came first and then the tune was used for the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Oooh I know this one, let me refresh my memory via wikipedia really fast. Okay, so the tune itself is predates both songs by a good deal, it seems to be an old folk hymn called "Say, Brothers will you Meet Us" that was pretty widespread by the 1850s via oral tradition and revivalist camp meetings. At some point it's chorus which had the line "We'll shout and give him Glory" mutated into "Glory, Glory Hallelujah". Anecdotally, "John Brown's Body" version came about from a group of union soldiers having fun with the fact that they had a Sergeant also named John Brown (No relation). To quote an account From George Kimball in 1890 "We had a jovial Scotchman in the battalion, named John Brown … and as he happened to bear the identical name of the old hero of Harper's Ferry, he became at once the butt of his comrades. If he made his appearance a few minutes late among the working squad, or was a little tardy in falling into the company line, he was sure to be greeted with such expressions as "Come, old fellow, you ought to be at it if you are going to help us free the slaves"; or, "This can't be John Brown—why, John Brown is dead." And then some wag would add, in a solemn, drawling tone, as if it were his purpose to give particular emphasis to the fact that John Brown was really, actually dead: "Yes, yes, poor old John Brown is dead; his body lies mouldering in the grave." These jokes were eventually set to the tune of "Say Brothers", producing the song "John Brown's Body", which spread through union ranks, but was considered somewhat course and unseemly. During the war, a woman named Julia Ward Howe heard soldiers singing the tune and decided to write new words to create a more dignified soldier's anthem, which became the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

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