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Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thatcher the milk snatcher.

  It’s incredible how she is almost universally hated in the UK.

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s far from universal, the impression probably comes from the general left leaning bias of online Brits and the fact that people that don’t like her tend to really fucking hate her due to her policies leading to the complete devastation of entire communities.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, the American analogue is Reagan. SO MANY people jack themselves off about being a “Reagan Republican” here, and whenever I hear someone say that, I just think “oh, ok, so you’re a racist imperialist hyper capitalist without a shred of empathy, but you don’t like to say it out loud, gotcha”

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      • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Many years ago I saw a post on…probably Digg, that espoused 200 (very valid) reasons to hate Reagan. It was one of those light-bulb moments for me as at that time I had no idea how damaging his presidency was.

        However, the new American analogue will be trump.

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      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s the value of charisma. I can’t not seethe while listening to Reagan shucks his way to destroying the welfare state, but he was an actor, I’ve got to assume he was good at striking the right note for people who didn’t have the consequences of his policies right at hand.

        I wish charisma were less effective, but unfortunately this is the world we live in. Even worse, the only Kennedy we have on the national scene is RFK Jr.

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    • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep I was in one of those mining communities just too young to understand what was going on till the mid to late 90s when I tried to get my 1st job only to realise there was nothing

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    unfortunately not totally universally.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And your jungle canyon rope-bridges.

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