To my noble friend Sir Ralph Hopton at Wells
Sir,
The experience I have of your worth and the happiness I have enjoyed in your friendship are wounding considerations when I look at this present distance between us. Certainly my affection to you is so unchangeable that hostility itself cannot violate my friendship, but I must be true wherein the cause I serve. That great God, which is the searcher of my heart, knows with what a sad sense I go about this service, and with what a perfect hatred I detest this war without an enemy; but I look upon it as an Opus Domini and that is enough to silence all passion in me. The God of peace in his good time will send us peace. In the meantime, we are upon the stage and must act those parts that are assigned to us in this tragedy. Let us do so in a way of honour and without personal animosities.
Whatever the outcome I will never willingly relinquish the title of Your most affectionated friend.
William Waller
@js290 I'll check it out
if anyone knows a comic routine with the same level of craft and control over the audience let me know
this is a work of genius
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj dude.
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj all good, I can rebook
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj aaaand there's the money shot ![]()
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj you shitpost on fedi bro, reality has nothing to do with ot
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj although you could make a damn good case it's much worse because they spent 14 years propping it up rather than necessity in Obama's 3rd term, after he let it all hang out his first 2
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj never said it's bad, just said you'd be a fool to award kudos to those in charge
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj all they've done is facilitate a crash they should have let happen 14 years ago
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj yeah none of this speaks to genius work by the fed, even assuming that they hold their nerve and don't start printing when all this corporate debt starts bankrupting companies left and right
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj so explain what we're missing here, as you're so clued in
@kakkerel @thatguyoverthere @11112011 @0 @dj blitz you're chatting balls, inflation forces their hand there's nothing intentional or wise about what's going on, they just got it when the music stopped
@vriska man is a product of that system