---
source: mastodon
date: 2021-07-26 14:48:58.29 +00
title: "Mastodon post from July 26, 2021, 106647449651592596"
post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/106647449651592596
post_id: 106647449651592596
tags:
  - mastodon
---
this old Edmund Burke “Letter to the Sherrifs of Bristol” (1977) ( [https://assets.cambridge.org/97811076/45714/frontmatter/9781107645714_frontmatter.pdf](https://assets.cambridge.org/97811076/45714/frontmatter/9781107645714_frontmatter.pdf) pdf) essay arguing against the laws declaring american rebels “pirates” and the war generally has some bangers in it but i’m so glad people don’t write like the first two lines here anymore


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