Paul Darcey4d ago
Bodil
Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉
Apr 8 at 7:22amWeb
Show threadBodil4d 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 threadBodil4d ago
Always two there are: a master and an apprentice.
Show threadJan Lehnardt 4d ago
@bodil 🔥🔥🔥
Show threadDaniël Franke 4d ago
@bodil So much bad shit really started with Reagan and Thatcher...
Show threadBodil4d ago
@ainmosni All the bad shit, really.
Show threadDaniël Franke 4d ago
@bodil Well, much of it was scattered around before, they packaged it all up, made it more effective, and modernised it.
Show threadMatt4d 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 threadViraptor4d ago

@ainmosni

@bodil

Show threadMartin Rust4d 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 threadLady φ3d ago
@viraptor @bodil
Whenever I think of Reagan, I remember John Oliver summing it up beautifully: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxphJ17dyfKv9Ny7iJSA1JHXOmlOUtikfP?si=QFulY71ejDnYwd2E
✂️ good stuff Reagan did

19 seconds · Clipped by 11LadyFie · Original video "Deep-Sea Mining: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)" by LastWeekTonight

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Show threadLarge Format Projectionist4d 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 4d 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 threadtribactam4d ago
@bodil root cause analysis = yes it was her.
Show threadzbrown4d 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 Walton4d ago
@zbrown @bodil a more honest kind of evil...
Show threadJon PENNYCOOK4d 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 threadBodil4d ago
@jonpsp It's the ones with a vision you really need to watch out for.
Show threadQole3d ago

@bodil @jonpsp
Yeats said it pretty well:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the…

The Poetry Foundation
Show threadAmbient Sponge3d ago
@bodil Whenever I think of her, I always think of a line from a comedian I remember. The only problem with pissing on Thatcher's grave is eventually you run out of piss.
Show threadMuss das sein.4d ago
@bodil well. There we go. There is at least one thing that isn’t bad.
Show threadcraignicol4d 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 threadBodil4d ago
@craignicol @otfrom The Wizard of Oz got a lot of playtime that day.
Show threadcraignicol4d ago

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

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

George Square Thatcher Death Party

Mogwai

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Show threadcraignicol4d 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 4d ago
@bodil this is how national holidays get born I imagine
Show threadMegatronicThronBanks4d 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 threadBodil4d ago
@megatronicthronbanks We can blame her for everything.
Show threadGentleman Programmer4d 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 Bear4d 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 threadBodil4d 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 threadC. de Valois4d ago

@riggbeck
I caught myself singing this chorus recently, due to the current events:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DkyzFjTMSjU

The Day After You - The Blow Monkeys (feat. Curtis Mayfield)

which was written about Thatcher. I think it got even more radio play after the BBC had banned it. It's from this album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Was_Only_a_Grocer%27s_Daughter (and that's what she was)

As for a post-Drumpf song, I reckon audio of toilets flushing ought to be enough.

#TheBlowMonkeys #Thatcher

@sjjh @bodil

The Blow Monkeys - The Day After You

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Show threadJimmy4d ago
@sjjh @bodil 💥
Show threadgbsills4d ago
@bodil Sadly neo-liberalism lives on.
Show threadLeo Schuldiner🤘🏼4d ago
@bodil beautiful! You made my day, being 6.50 am over here! Thank you!
Show threadgunstick4d ago
@bodil when is Trump day?
Show threadRoss of Ottawa4d ago
@gunstick @bodil going to need a bigger font (and bigger champagne bottles).
Show threadBeeCycling4d ago
@gunstick @bodil I have the awful feeling that he'll live to 95, powered by pure spite.
Show threadJon Wilson4d ago
@bodil https://youtu.be/K-BZIWSI5UQ
Elvis Costello - Tramp The Dirt Down

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Show threadMatt Rose  4d 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 threadBodil4d 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 thieves4d 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 threadTomWilsonYEG4d ago

@bodil

Beware the March of Trumps …

Show threadRuled by thieves4d ago
@bodil She also planned to bomb Dundalk. Her and Trump would be best friends, guaranteed
Show threadGrant4d ago

@bodil

I always refer to her as - Myopic Maggie.

Show threadTheriac4d 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 4d 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 threadEye4d ago

@kimlockhartga @bodil

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

Show threadBodil4d ago
@grb090423 @kimlockhartga The first, and the second, and, uh, I still don't know what to make of Liz Truss.
Show threadEye4d ago

@bodil @kimlockhartga

All nasty and all, funnily enough, bloody Tories!

🤦‍♀️😖

As for Truss... 🥬

Show threadOtttoz4d ago
@bodil la prima premier donna e nera d'Inghilterra
Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊4d 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 threadeblu4d 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 Workgroups4d 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 threadManc AvGeek4d ago
@bodil *spit*
Show threadJimmy4d ago
@mancavgeek @bodil Save it for her grave!!!
Show threadManc AvGeek4d ago
@sjcooke66 That's what the contents of my bladder are for!
Show threadxs4me24d ago

@bodil

Looking forward to remembering Trump in the same way!

Show threadRay Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑4d ago

@bodil

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

Show threadJoscelyn Transpiring4d 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?