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No, the value of a woman being as tough as she was at the time can be separated from what she chose to do with that toughness. She was, no doubt, an important figure in terms of women's history and influencing women's ability to be taken seriously in the world and particularly politics.There is no value in being tough just for the sake of being tough. What is important is what you are tough about. You're probably too young and too distant to know what she did and to whom.
Way to keep it classy.
No, the value of a woman being as tough as she was at the time can be separated from what she chose to do with that toughness. She was, no doubt, an important figure in terms of women's history and influencing women's ability to be taken seriously in the world and particularly politics.
Here's an excellent article that articulates a lot of what I feel about the death of Thatcher... apart from the bit about not cheering.
Considering Margaret Thatcher was America's staunchest ally and a dear friend of President Reagan and assisted him greatly in ending the cold war, I wonder who President Obama will send to her funeral.
Regardless of what you think/thought of her policies, she was a truly great lady and a prime example of what a woman leader could and should be.
Who have I insulted? Certainly not you, and Medusa and I are very good friends, I certainly wasn't insulting her. The only person I've insulted is Thatcher. Why? Because:
That's just seven reasons why I'm not mourning her.
- She destryoed British manufacturing industry quite deliberately.
- She created the service-sector-based economy that is currently delivering poverty and unemployment to the entire nation.
- She deliberately destroyed traditional working class communities and demonised their unions and their organisations.
- She mismanaged British overseas dependencies and this directly led to the Flaklands war. She shamelessly used the Falklands conflict in order to engineer her 1983 election victory. Prior to the Falklands her popularity was in the toilet.
- She sold off national assets to her carpet-bagging capitalist mates at rock-bottom prices, effectively giving public money to her political allies.
- She introduced a despotic and discriminatory poll tax that united the nation against her. She lost that one.
- She introduced legislation outlawing all mention of gays and lesbians in all schools.
I didn't say she was "like the first woman leader." I said that she was an important figure in women's history and influenced women's ability to be taken seriously in the world, particularly in politics. This is undeniable.It's not like she was the first major woman world leader. I'm sorry, but I can't divorce her hard-as-nails persona with the evil she did. She could have been that pioneer, but she chose to be the opposite and blighted generations.
It's not like she was the first major woman world leader. I'm sorry, but I can't divorce her hard-as-nails persona with the evil she did. She could have been that pioneer, but she chose to be the opposite and blighted generations.
And with her goes seemingly the last spine left in a once great nation.
RIP.
yeh its not like we backed you up in the last 2 wars you were in...
Most of your accusations of her, those 5-7 points you made, are for the most part invalid or untrue.
Your saying so doesn't make them so.
Your saying so doesn't make them so.Most of your accusations of her, those 5-7 points you made, are for the most part invalid or untrue.
Bookmarking this thread for the next time a liberal dies. Apparently tossing some of the vitriolic, most hateful things you can think up after a person dies because you disagree with their politics is what all the cool kids are doing nowadays.
Bookmarking this thread for the next time a liberal dies. Apparently tossing some of the vitriolic, most hateful things you can think up after a person dies because you disagree with their politics is what all the cool kids are doing nowadays.
Bookmarking this thread for the next time a liberal dies. Apparently tossing some of the vitriolic, most hateful things you can think up after a person dies because you disagree with their politics is what all the cool kids are doing nowadays.
Bookmarking this thread for the next time a liberal dies. Apparently tossing some of the vitriolic, most hateful things you can think up after a person dies because you disagree with their politics is what all the cool kids are doing nowadays.
Your saying so doesn't make them so.
I'll add an eighth point:
She perpetuated the Troubles in Northern Ireland by banning free speech and dispensing with democracy, unconstitutionally banning the democratically-elected representatives of the Catholic community from taking their seats in Westminster.
I feel like some of them in this thread could take a chill pill on it...
Your saying so doesn't make them so.
I'll add an eighth point:
She perpetuated the Troubles in Northern Ireland by banning free speech and dispensing with democracy, unconstitutionally banning the democratically-elected representatives of the Catholic community from taking their seats in Westminster.
but she also paved the way towards the good friday agreement...
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