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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