Thatcher rule
Thatcher rule
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yeah this way the troubles could last 50 years instead.... thatcher was a hag but something tells me successfully assassinating her would have led to more problems not fewer.
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That something is wrong and you shouldn't listen to it.
Now if only we could have gotten Thatcher, Reagan, and Pinochet in a room together in 1978 at the latest, preferably 72, that would've been a magnificent place for a bomb!
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would be a very interesting alt history for sure. might have made the cold war go on longer, depending on the reactions to whomever pulled it off.
Personally, though, I'd prefer Pinochet get dumped from an aircraft at high altitude so he has time to reflect.
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I hate to think this way but it would be grand. Environmentalism was pretty big before the deregulation and greed is good 80's.
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Cool if you want to trigger WW3 I guess
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That's why you have to assassinate Thatcher earlier before she got into politics. No one is going to care about some nobody.
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Just make sure you get her after she did the soft serve ice cream thing
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- doubled VAT to reduce inflation but in doing so destroyed domestic manufacturing and set the stage for mass home repossessions and rises in costs of social housing creating both the economic issues Britain has over diminishing exports and a housing crisis
- created a tax to vote, that disproportionately targeted poorer people, creating the worst riots in history
- introduced privatization to the health care system which is still being felt today
- section 28: it was illegal to mention homosexuality
- reclassified IRA prisoners of war as criminals so they no longer were treated as captives in war but as offenders of the law, as a result 10 of them voluntarily starved themselves to death, causing their leader to get elected to parliament from his prison cell, and invoked an intervention by the Pope and the EU human rights commission, and further exacerbated the troubles
- destruction of many traditional ways of life in areas of the country for laborers and trade unionists
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She also infamously took free milk away from schools
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This is an excellent list of specific examples, but I think it fails to really capture the overall tone of Thatcher's leadership.
I don't think it is in any way an exaggeration to describe her government as fascist. Her rhetoric leaned heavily on nationalism. She spoke glowingly of the British empire, dehamunized the Irish, and treated the working class an enemy to be defeated. Her MPs spoke openly of their desire to see queer people eradicated. Under Thatcher policing in Britain became open warfare. She endorsed and encouraged every vile and base instinct of her conservative base. To describe her as the British Donald Trump only fails in one aspect; unlike Trump, she was often terrifyingly competent.
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TAX TO VOTE? Okay that made me actually LOL. Imagine not just thinking about this idea, but even implementing it. Hilarious.
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So this is the game plan that the government is using in the United States. At least I know what's to come, kinda hoping they were gonna be more original in the downfall of the US.
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She had a very tough and uncompromising stance on most things, including Northern Ireland and the Troubles. Rather than seek compromise, she increased the military presence there, which many believe exacerbated and prolonged the situation.
It is, of course, much more complex than this, but her policies regarding Northern Ireland are a large factor in why she is not remembered fondly by many Irish.
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How much time do you have?
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Breathe.
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She begged the USSR to absorb East Germany because she thought that German reunification would lead to another Hitler situation.
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Girls with a time machine: dresses up as puppygirl Hitler
I think that's supposed to be a snout
That's what Hitler was going for??
maybe if the snout looks like a hitler moustache it's not worth it
They cute tho
thought that was a nose ring