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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_sexual_slurs
Ironicwarcriminal posted:I'm saddened that we're losing one of the first prominent public figures to speak forcefully of the dangers the world faced from global warming.
And hitler was a dog person, who cares!
16. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
urgh she was a transphobe too
getfiscal posted:here's some more gendered insults you can use today:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_sexual_slurs
getfiscal posted:here's some more gendered insults you can use today:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_sexual_slurs
ur the one who linked a song about tramps !
Makeshift_Swahili posted:ur the one who linked a song about tramps !
tramp is not a gendered insult in north america.
example: in "The Lady and the Tramp" (a great movie), the tramp refers to a male dog.
Ironicwarcriminal posted:I'm saddened that we're losing one of the first prominent public figures to speak forcefully of the dangers the world faced from global warming.
its even warmer where shes going! LOL
With the passing of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend. As a grocer’s daughter who rose to become Britain’s first female prime minister, she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered. As prime minister, she helped restore the confidence and pride that has always been the hallmark of Britain at its best. And as an unapologetic supporter of our transatlantic alliance, she knew that with strength and resolve we could win the Cold War and extend freedom’s promise.
Here in America, many of us will never forget her standing shoulder to shoulder with President Reagan, reminding the world that we are not simply carried along by the currents of history—we can shape them with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will. Michelle and I send our thoughts to the Thatcher family and all the British people as we carry on the work to which she dedicated her life—free peoples standing together, determined to write our own destiny.
Nothing reveals the impotence of the modern Left more than its anti-Thatcherism. Some will be tempted to see the misjudged joy being expressed by some Leftists today in response to Baroness Thatcher’s death as evidence that the Left remains a cocky, swaggering force, always ready to declare class war, even on a day when an elderly lady has died and her family is in mourning. But this would be wrong. For in truth, the intensity of Leftists’ loathing for Thatcher is directly proportional to the paucity of their own impact on public debate and to their waning influence over ordinary people. As the Left’s intellectual and electoral fortunes have declined, so its hatred for and scapegoating of Margaret Thatcher have intensified.
Thatcher – or rather “Thatcha”, always said with a dramatic sneer – has become the Left’s catch-all explanation for why it isn’t taken seriously by the masses anymore. Thatcher brainwashed the plebs into becoming materialistic, they say, making them love “stuff” more than community and turning them off Big Picture politics. Thatcher turned people individualistic, they claim, making it more difficult for Leftists to pursue a politics based on collectivity. Thatcher stole working-class voters from their natural home of the Labour Party, they argue, fatally denting that party’s standing among the masses. (This overlooks the fact Labour’s support had been declining long before Thatcher allegedly colonised the fickle brains of Joe Public: among manual workers, Labour’s support fell from 62 per cent in 1959 to 38 per cent at the opening of the 1980s.)
Time and again, the failures of the Left – to convince the public of its agenda, to win the working classes to its cause – is projected on to Thatcher. She and her ideology are transformed into an all-powerful force that corrupted the little people’s minds and singlehandedly finished off Socialism. That is why Thatcher became, if anything, even more hated in recent years, long after she left office, including among new radical Leftist who weren’t even born when she was PM: because Thatcher-bashing is fundamentally an expression of Leftists’ fury and frustration at their own increasing insignificance in public debate and among the demos. How much easier it is to claim that the public have being mentally kidnapped by an awesomely powerful leader than to have a serious think about why latter-day Leftism failed. The question is: now that Thatcher is dead, who will the Left blame for the indifference and even hostility it is met with in communities up and down the country?
my new fav columnist is right
getfiscal posted:here's some more gendered insults you can use today:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_sexual_slurs
im glad that the horrible *checks list* fish is finally dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/apr/08/miliband-clegg-local-elections-cameron-madrid
But there's also some great shit-flinging:
And here's from what Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, is saying about Lady Thatcher.
"Margaret Thatcher did great hurt to the Irish and British people during her time as British prime minister. Working class communities were devastated in Britain because of her policies. Her role in international affairs was equally belligerent whether in support of the Chilean dictator Pinochet, her opposition to sanctions against Apartheid South Africa; and her support for the Khmer Rouge.
Here in Ireland her espousal of old draconian militaristic policies prolonged the war and caused great suffering. Her failed efforts to criminalise the republican struggle and the political prisoners is part of her legacy. It should be noted that in complete contradiction of her public posturing, she authorised a back channel of communications with the Sinn Fein leadership but failed to act on the logic of this. Unfortunately she was faced with weak Irish governments who failed to oppose her securocrat agenda or to enlist international support in defence of citizens in the north.
Margaret Thatcher will be especially remembered for her shameful role during the epic hunger strikes of 1980 and '81. Her Irish policy failed miserably."
My gut reaction now is what it was at the time when she said my father was the leader of a terrorist organisation. I don't think she ever got it that every day she opposed sanctions, more people were dying, and that the best thing for the assets she wanted to protect was democracy.
Many lives were lost. It's a shame that we could never call her one of the champions of the liberation struggle. Normally we say that when one of us goes, the ANC ancestors will meet them at the pearly gates and give them a standing ovation. I think it's quite likely that when Margaret Thatcher reaches the pearly gates, the ANC will boycott the occasion.
G_Hosafat posted:the best thing for the assets she wanted to protect was democracy.
couldn't have said it better myself.
ANC, bourgeoisie! ANC, bourgeoisie!
