Jordan Petridis9h ago
Bodil
Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉
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Show threadBodil9h ago

I often wonder who's been worse for the UK overall, Thatcher or the parade of self serving kleptocrats of more recent years. Farage and Johnson caused untold damage between them, and Farage may yet cause much more, but, honestly, they're just natural byproducts of Thatcher's project. She was the root cause, and all these sneering clowns who followed her are just minor characters in her play. She may be dead but the wounds she left us still bleed.

Let's make today the day when we grab a stake and check on her grave, just to be sure.

Show threadBodil1h ago
Always two there are: a master and an apprentice.
Show threadJan Lehnardt 1m ago
@bodil 🔥🔥🔥
Show threadDaniël Franke 9h ago
@bodil So much bad shit really started with Reagan and Thatcher...
Show threadBodil9h ago
@ainmosni All the bad shit, really.
Show threadDaniël Franke 9h ago
@bodil Well, much of it was scattered around before, they packaged it all up, made it more effective, and modernised it.
Show threadMatt6h ago
@bodil Oh they did manage to have genocide, Jim Crow and nuking the shit out of places all without Reagan. To name just a few, in case anyone was wondering whether the Other Capitalist Party was better. #notallshit
@ainmosni
Show threadViraptor8h ago

@ainmosni

@bodil

Show threadMartin Rust35m ago
@viraptor @ainmosni @bodil Nope, start with #Goldwater, the one who wanted to succeed #Eisenhower who was the last decent Republican 🇺🇸 president. And continue with #Nixon.
Show threadLarge Format Projectionist3h ago

@ainmosni @bodil

Oh goodness gracious no. They don’t start much at all. The US was destined to get to its neoliberal nirvana.

Show threadDaniël Franke 3h ago
@BenHM3 @bodil I don't disagree with that, actually, but bad shit got streamlined, modernised, and better sold with those two. Granted, it most likely would have happened without them, but maybe a bit later.
Show threadtribactam5h ago
@bodil root cause analysis = yes it was her.
Show threadzbrown4h ago

@bodil yeah, I mean don't get me wrong I disagree with pretty much everything Thatcher stood for, but at least she did stand for something, and quite probably believed she was ‘doing the right thing’ even as it needlessly shattered community after community for generations.

These others? It's all just greed and grift.

Show threadMatthew Walton2h ago
@zbrown @bodil a more honest kind of evil...
Show threadJon PENNYCOOK1h ago
@bodil My Dad, who is definitely not a fan, said he respected Thatcher because she stood for what she believed in. Most of the rest since have stood for whatever the Sun and the Mail have on their front page (and more recently, whatever people complain about on Facebook or Twitter)
Show threadBodil56m ago
@jonpsp It's the ones with a vision you really need to watch out for.
Show threadMuss das sein.10h ago
@bodil well. There we go. There is at least one thing that isn’t bad.
Show threadcraignicol9h ago
@bodil @otfrom I still love that I found out because someone posted "The Witch Is Dead" on the social playlist site I was using, and nobody needed any context.
Show threadBodil9h ago
@craignicol @otfrom The Wizard of Oz got a lot of playtime that day.
Show threadcraignicol9h ago

@bodil @otfrom true. I responded with this one though

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QdNxEczuQXg

George Square Thatcher Death Party

Mogwai

YouTube Music
Show threadcraignicol9h ago
@bodil @otfrom she's been out of power for 35 years but we still live in Thatcher's Britain. Labour had a chance to stem the bleeding, but they elected Blair instead
Show thread🩷 Stella 9h ago
@bodil this is how national holidays get born I imagine
Show threadMegatronicThronBanks8h ago
@bodil Can't blame the evil kankerous mud slut shit stain for the entire Tory party or the members of the UK public fucking stupid enough to vote them in. Be fair.
Show threadBodil8h ago
@megatronicthronbanks We can blame her for everything.
Show threadGentleman Programmer8h ago

@bodil Happy Ding Dong Day to all who celebrate
#dingdong #thatcher

https://youtu.be/8vXR5gjRMPk?si=Rpm6LXT8qnkz4Gdf

Klaus Nomi - Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

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Show threadFardels Bear2h ago

@sjjh @bodil

Donald Trump will need his own song, and of course the right artist(s) to sing it. Has to be representative of the many people Trump has demonized, murdered, persecuted and insulted. We need to have it ready to go on that great day.

Show threadBodil2h ago

@riggbeck @sjjh Makes me think of this song which has been mysteriously trending on Youtube for the past several months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkhzVw0yBs

When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)

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Show threadgbsills6h ago
@bodil Sadly neo-liberalism lives on.
Show threadLeo Schuldiner🤘🏼6h ago
@bodil beautiful! You made my day, being 6.50 am over here! Thank you!
Show threadgunstick6h ago
@bodil when is Trump day?
Show threadRoss of Ottawa5h ago
@gunstick @bodil going to need a bigger font (and bigger champagne bottles).
Show threadBeeCycling4h ago
@gunstick @bodil I have the awful feeling that he'll live to 95, powered by pure spite.
Show threadJon Wilson5h ago
@bodil https://youtu.be/K-BZIWSI5UQ
Elvis Costello - Tramp The Dirt Down

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Show threadMatt Rose  5h ago
@bodil there is a speech by a labour mp and actress that is worth watching today https://youtu.be/BRqdQMlIiYc?si=iTYHjB0oDDt_VT-f
Glenda Jackson: Late ex-MP delivers immense anti-Thatcher speech days after Thatcher's death

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Show threadBodil5h ago
@mattrose Brings a tear to the eye, to see a Labour politician with a spine. They don't have a lot of those anymore.
Show threadRuled by thieves5h ago
@bodil One of the greatest days in British history. Took the milk from 5yo kids as Education Secy. What a total c**t, entertained a genocidal monster as PM, had tiffin with Augusto Pinochet n No10. Best buddies. #ThatcherTheMilkSnatcher
Show threadTomWilsonYEG5h ago

@bodil

Beware the March of Trumps …

Show threadRuled by thieves5h ago
@bodil She also planned to bomb Dundalk. Her and Trump would be best friends, guaranteed
Show threadGrant5h ago

@bodil

I always refer to her as - Myopic Maggie.

Show threadTheriac4h ago
@bodil
May her grave never be dry.

Worth mentioning though without direction - she'd just have been another mid-tier apparatchik.

RE: https://plasmatrap.com/notes/9lzb71uqet76ddph
Show threadKim Possible 4h ago
@bodil I've learned so much revised *real* history from you lot, directly, than I ever learned from MSM. We just knew she was a leader. We did not know how hated she was.
Show threadEye58m ago

@kimlockhartga @bodil

We utterly detested her. The first female PM this country got and it had to be a nasty one.

Show threadBodil54m ago
@grb090423 @kimlockhartga The first, and the second, and, uh, I still don't know what to make of Liz Truss.
Show threadEye51m ago

@bodil @kimlockhartga

All nasty and all, funnily enough, bloody Tories!

🤦‍♀️😖

As for Truss... 🥬

Show threadOtttoz4h ago
@bodil la prima premier donna e nera d'Inghilterra
Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊4h ago
@bodil as is my tradition to mark this momentous occasion, here is glasgow activist & legend, cathy rutherford, with her beautiful eulogy for maggot thatcher.
https://youtu.be/DUlj48Rvp1c
A Scottish Woman Reacts to the death of Margaret Thatcher

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Show threadeblu3h ago
@bodil obligatory https://youtu.be/ILvd5buCEnU
MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD (A Bruno Powroznik classic)

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Show threadMatt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups3h ago
@bodil In so much as she remains dead we must give thanks to those brave souls who stuffed her mouth with garlic, chopped off her head and in particular drove a stake through her heart. The latter being a feat of admirable precision given the minuscule target area. To think now how proud I was of progressive Britain in 1979 to have elected a woman.
Show threadLeonid Vaynerman3h ago

@bodil Margaret Thatcher is the greatest British politician since Churchill.

And you're a bit stupid.

Show threadBodil3h ago
@vaynerman lmao, thanks for your valuable input, man with four followers, three of which are bots.
Show threadSusi3h ago
@bodil @[email protected]
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Show threadManc AvGeek3h ago
@bodil *spit*
Show threadxs4me23h ago

@bodil

Looking forward to remembering Trump in the same way!

Show threadRay Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑3h ago

@bodil

I'm really looking forward to celebrating [Unalive] Trump Day. No doubt, so is most of the world.

Show threadJoscelyn Transpiring3h ago

@bodil Are we sure she's still dead? Wouldn't put it past that monster, let's go make sure that corpse is still in the ground. 🤭

I wish USians had the sense to celebrate similarly when Reagan finally kicked the bucket. Maybe we should start celebrating?

Show threadEggs now in different baskets.2h ago
@JoscelynTransient @bodil You mean she might be out there somewhere still rocking with Elvis?
Show threadIncredibish3h ago

@bodil

Sadly her bastard offspring are still kicking around... and her portrayal of society as unvalued remains a heritage we have yet to correct.

Show threadWokebloke for Democracy3h ago
@bodil
And yet, David Cameron is still around.
Show threadFlipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈2h ago
@bodil 13 years of providing a unisex toilet. I hope to return to the UK one day to use it.