Maggy Thatcher dead

[Dreadnought]

I guess reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, so I'll just ask you to re-read my post a few more times.

EDIT: Actually, nevermind. Say what you want. You all on the left have proven what your are and what your character is. No since trying to hide it behind a false veneer of silence I guess. So vitriol away, dicks. I'm done with the lot of ya.

Let's be real here: did you expect any different on this forum?

 

[aelf]

EDIT: Actually, nevermind. Say what you want. You all on the left have proven what your are and what your character is.

The sentiment is mutual.

 

[Farm Boy]

I guess it's easy to pretend to be wise, when you create your own strawmen to be "smart" against.

Would you care to point the strawman out please? I would appreciate small words as your meaning is sure to escape me otherwise.

 

[Old Hippy]

Because, frankly, it makes you s. <<< Oh, that got autocensored... How about a period of silent respect if you don't have the decency to say something nice? I mean come on, give it a day at least. And maybe another thread to boot? I am not suggesting you like her or sing her praises, but you don't have to be pricks.

it is not as if this is about disrespect, just because she died today....
lets just take the time to remember her legacey


Link to video.

 

[MobBoss]

I haven't read any of this thread. Did it turn out to be the vomitous thing I envisioned it to be?

 

[Old Hippy]

it is remembering Thacherism, so yes

 

[Arwon]

http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/09/rundle-a-baroness-dies-the-fiction-of-thatcherism-lives/

Guy Rundle nails it:

Thatcherism is being presented on the basis of a half-truth that is all lie: that the structural adjustment that every Western economy required could take only one path and &#8220;there is no alternative&#8221;. Only the closed circle of centre-Right debate in the Anglosphere, combined with the nostalgic attachment of what remains of the Left to the class politics of the 70s, prevents the case from being argued: Thatcherism was a second-rate, shoddy job of post-war economic transformation, the easiest possible version of it.

But around and round it goes on TV, the montages of bankers with big phones, and girls in eyeliner drinking champagne to the Pet Shop Boys. The imagery reinforces the idea that history could not have been otherwise. Yet every time one steps off the train in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Stockholm one sees how it could have been&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;low poverty, social cohesion, without any loss of energy or dynamism. It is not the past that Thatcher should be compared to, but its parallel present.

 

[Arwon]

Because, frankly, it makes you s. <<< Oh, that got autocensored... How about a period of silent respect if you don't have the decency to say something nice? I mean come on, give it a day at least. And maybe another thread to boot? I am not suggesting you like her or sing her praises, but you don't have to be pricks.

Why should the people who want to extoll the good parts of a dead politician's legacy get free reign to use that politician's death for hagiography free of criticism and reminders of the bad part?

 

[Formaldehyde]

More tributes:


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A lot of people will want to pay their respects. And a lot of people will want proof that she is dead. It will be the very first time the 21 gun salute shoots the coffin.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I haven't read any of this thread. Did it turn out to be the vomitous thing I envisioned it to be?

Moderator Action: Yes, perhaps worse. I've closed it.
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