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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine a boot stomping on Thatcher's face.

I'm not making a point, it just makes me happy to think about it

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

It's until she can pull herself up by it, so yes

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[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a shame, if we could find a way to make her corpse feel pain that would be great.

[–] Marighost@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone should resurrect her soul (from hell) and stick it in the torment nexus.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

God damn it, did you create the Torment Nexus?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if they keep the toilet part of her grave separate from the dance floor 🤔

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 21 points 1 week ago

Better hope there were no cameras or else urine trouble.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah yeah thatcher's grave, we've all peed there

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (9 children)

what did she do? i dont follow other countries politics (unless its literally thrown in my face every time a president does something stupid like what's happening in the US)

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 week ago

It would be easier to list the things she didn’t do.

Long and short, screwed over a lot of minorities, oversaw a lot of violent conflicts, and reshaped the UK economy and government to benefit the financial sector and ultra wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

He got his playbook from her, I believe.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

i don't know this person either

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's multifaceted, but I can mention one of the things she messed up: She made council houses a commodity^[1], and now everyone is paying the price because nobody can afford to buy their own home because said council houses have been taken over by greedy landlords that keep the rent so high that nobody can afford to save up for a house of their own.
What she did was the equivalent of pissing in your trousers to keep warm.. Council houses used to be the affordable stepping stone before you saved enough money for your own place.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

She was a pretty hated British Prime Minister during the 1980s. When she died in 2013, people celebrated with the music "Ding dong, the witch is dead!" - Here's one such video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hvccEpOFhc

[–] jaark@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago

It got into the top ten music charts too iirc - and the bbc refused to play it on the chart countdown.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Fucked up unions, fucked up the workers, fucked up villages, fucked up the Queer community, war crimes, tax breaks for the rich, privatised core infrastructure, tried to fuck up the EU...

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

she did do one good thing though

she died

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

30 fckn years too late. No accolades for that.

[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, but it took her incredibly long and she didn't accept any help

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Over saw Section 28.

She also destroyed communities by destroying unions associated with mining and steel works.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You get different answers depending on who you ask. Of course, those on the left despise her for good reasons, which others have already mentioned.

Then on the one hand, there is argument to be made that her deregulation did save UK from bankruptcy at the time of financial turmoil catalysed by the 1970s oil crisis. The deregulation, of course, made her a darling among the right because it also made businesses more flexible.

Another bit to note is that, whether you are left or right, it is undeniable she handled the Falklands War impressively. That is commendable regardless of one's political leaning.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

damn, a politically impartial comment is rare here, thanks for giving out more info!

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I personally loathe Thatcher, but one has to give credit to where it's due.

[–] mdk_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

She was against german reunification at the time and was deeply suspicious about Germany and their people and politicians.

Source: https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-iron-lady-s-views-on-german-reunification-the-germans-are-back-a-648364.html

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Typical right-wing bullshit.

[–] Roundeyegweilo@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

Even as a yank, I love this.

Fuck you Maggie. Rot in hell.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago

Obligatory

https://youtu.be/ZGyDMRKDaSc

"I'd put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck to make sure she'd never come back"

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Mrs Thatcher Milk Snatcher.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is the white bar of the trans flag green?

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] AugustWest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That’s both hilarious and pretty much accurate to what color a pH strip would turn if the average person urinated on it, for anyone was wondering.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Ahh this is what i recommended under someone elses post a few weeks ago

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Did she do any LGBTQ policies or even expressed any LGBTQ related opinions?

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

She famously banned the concept of gay people from schools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28

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[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I didn't even know that transgender people existed until my 20's because of her. Also 'gay' was the most common insult throughout my childhood.

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I never heard “gay” as an insult until I moved when I was 12, then I heard it a lot from the kids in my new school, always thought it was fucked up, and didn’t like the kids who were saying it.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

It was 100% normal for me - we were all using it at a young age (or local insults meaning the same) without really even knowing what it meant. I don't think I realised that gay people really existed until I was a teenager.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Doesn't matter, it's thatcher

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