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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]winter is coming
(11,785 posts)222. For pity's sake, use mail block if you don't want another PM from someone.
And use the "trash thread by keyword" feature if you don't want to see people dissing Thatcher.
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Agreed...sorry, being wrong is not the same as having total contempt for humanity...
joeybee12
Apr 2013
#3
Better to judge the dead, than to judge and punish the living who are poor, sick, unemployed, etc.
LeftishBrit
Apr 2013
#104
Wow, so you think that we shouldn't criticize anybody, no matter what they did,
MadHound
Apr 2013
#41
Take the spirit talk to a forum on religion. We are talking about POLITICS here
Cal Carpenter
Apr 2013
#48
Once someone dies, all their past actions are moot? Nope, criticize their actions forever.
uppityperson
Apr 2013
#288
Wow, I do hope you're careful getting down from that high horse. Nosebleeds and all..LOL.
monmouth3
Apr 2013
#32
Hell No. I'll cheer for Republicans as they snuff it too. They would have half the country starving
Katashi_itto
Apr 2013
#262
So her spirit is bothered by a a critical analysis of her record as prime minister?
marmar
Apr 2013
#4
I'm disappointed in DUers who want to paper over the past and lionize egregious leaders
Arugula Latte
Apr 2013
#23
No. Fuck her spirit, fuck her memory, fuck the sick institutions she was a part of. nt
Poll_Blind
Apr 2013
#17
I think people should be respectful of the dead. However, you should understand
southernyankeebelle
Apr 2013
#19
If one of my close family members had done what Maragaret Thatcher did to her people . . .
markpkessinger
Apr 2013
#264
Instituted massive public service cuts; crushed the unions; destroyed much of British industry and
LeftishBrit
Apr 2013
#291
I heard when she went to Hell, she'd already shut down five furnaces! n/t
backscatter712
Apr 2013
#74
It's like when you get the nasty third grade teacher, survive that year,
Arugula Latte
Apr 2013
#133
So you admit you lied? Shit I hope that doesn't affect the soul of that lady from the beach movies
Guy Whitey Corngood
Apr 2013
#309
Are you joking? Tell me this is a joke. Fucking wingnut mysticism bullshit.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2013
#305
there is no such thing as "spirits" or any other woo woo "over the magic clouds" crap
snooper2
Apr 2013
#47
Being born and dying and doing lots and lots of damage in between doesn't deserve any respect.
MotherPetrie
Apr 2013
#49
grave dancing has never been something I am fond of . . . but you are certainly free to engage
DrDan
Apr 2013
#85
You Believe in Spirits. You let her rest. I don't. I believe she destroyed the only
CBGLuthier
Apr 2013
#67
She hurt a lot of people and made things a lot worse, particularly in Britain
el_bryanto
Apr 2013
#88
Since you want us to forgive her, please show me where she asked for forgiveness.
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#102
You are asking on the theory that her immortal soul still cares what I think of her?
el_bryanto
Apr 2013
#113
I don't believe you. I don't believe for one second that you have any interest in her "spirit".
sibelian
Apr 2013
#238
Actually im not too familiar with Thatcher's deeds. my OP wasnt about what she did right or wrong.
darkangel218
Apr 2013
#353
Margaret Thacker should be neither vilified nor honored. She should be buried and forgotten.
Zen Democrat
Apr 2013
#103
I am not for celebrating people's death myself but the women hurt a lot of people.
hrmjustin
Apr 2013
#115
Mrs. Thatcher is more offended by YOU and YOUR OP than anything else said about her on DU
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#127
My advice to you would be to steer FAAAAR clear of this site when Dick Cheney dies.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2013
#132
OMG, are you gonna be mean to Dick Cheney's delicate, flower-like SPIRIT?!?!
Arugula Latte
Apr 2013
#136
Attempting to reach transcendance at the expense of the truth results in damntion
Occulus
Apr 2013
#163
Too fucking bad...She's dead and millions are happy about it...GET.OVER.IT.
truebrit71
Apr 2013
#139
please. there is no such thing as a spirit. please don't expect others to adhere to your
boilerbabe
Apr 2013
#141
What? About whether I speak ill of Chavez or will speak ill of Obama after his death?
Marr
Apr 2013
#190
let people vent.....quit laying your values on everyone else , if you don't fucking like it then
Demonaut
Apr 2013
#156
To the living we owe respect, to the dead we owe only the truth. - Voltaire n/t
Benton D Struckcheon
Apr 2013
#161
Most of us seem to see this as welcome relief from the phony homilies of politicians.
leveymg
Apr 2013
#168
Welcome relief from excessive homilies to Thatcher, such as Obama's: "great champion of freedom"
leveymg
Apr 2013
#195
"Booooooooh! Booooooohhhh!! I aaaaam Maaargaret Thaaaatcher's spiiirit. Aaaaand I doooooon't
Guy Whitey Corngood
Apr 2013
#171
I am with the groups in England that broke out in spontaneous parties yesterday
rurallib
Apr 2013
#172
I've read rants against neoliberalism on DU every day since I started visiting. (nt)
PETRUS
Apr 2013
#236
I don't hate Mrs. Thatcher, and I've never said I did, you're asking me to LIKE her policies now
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#193
For pity's sake, use mail block if you don't want another PM from someone.
winter is coming
Apr 2013
#222
You need to quit issuing orders you can't enforce, and familiarize yourself with DU's ignore options
apocalypsehow
Apr 2013
#259
Why does it bother you so much what i say? block me if you cant handle it.
darkangel218
Apr 2013
#343
So Margaret Thatcher has this much power over all of you even after her death
Puzzledtraveller
Apr 2013
#214
Well, for one thing, they're both dead. Should we be nice about both of them because they're dead?nt
Ian David
Apr 2013
#310
do you have any tangible proof that her spirit exists? or is restless?
La Lioness Priyanka
Apr 2013
#267
The pain and suffering that she and Reagan caused to their respective nations...
Chisox08
Apr 2013
#273
You reap what you sow. Maybe you should read Dickens' A Christmas Tale, namely
snagglepuss
Apr 2013
#290
Well, apparently she was not very popular in her own land as hundreds celebrated her death.
Beacool
Apr 2013
#292
Margaret Thatcher no longer cares what we think. So the only question is our own karma.
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#296
Did she pass her policies by proxy or something? We are ONLY what we do, not more,
WinkyDink
Apr 2013
#338
Honey this ain't nothing compared to what's gonna happen when G.Bush kicks the bucket
MichiganVote
Apr 2013
#312
No. No rest for her "spirit". It is by her own actions that she left the world owing a karmic debt.
scarletwoman
Apr 2013
#315
i don't believe in "spirit" and i'm judging her based on what she did when she lived
JI7
Apr 2013
#335
So: No matter WHAT people do, how vicious, evil, or corrupt, once dead they get a pass from you?
WinkyDink
Apr 2013
#339