British comics writers in the 80s did not care for Margaret Thatcher. I was just reading early Hellblazer where John Constantine is fighting demons who are literally cheering for the Conservatives to win an election.
There's an issue of Planetary from the early 2000s by Warren Ellis where a character matter-of-factly explains that Thatcher was so crazy that she "wasn't even a woman anymore", whatever that's supposed to mean.
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I hope that and not the other thing it sounds like.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I'm not very familiar with Thatcher beyond 'mining communities hate her'. Surely the shutting down of mining is just economics? Mining isn't a sustainable thing, it has to end sometime.
A lot of it was the way she shut the mines down and broke up the unions. They were state owned mines, which she ideologically disagreed with, and her government pushed through privatisation that was very damaging to the economies of smaller towns and cities, especially in the north. Others will know a lot more about it than I do, but from what I know there was a lot of underhanded ways her government pursued its goals. They definitely lied to the public about their plans to close the mines, which rather than being a reaction to some unprofitable mines, was ideologically driven and had been planned from the start of the government's term but was lied about because the extent of the closures was going to be unpopular.
I'm not very familiar with Thatcher beyond 'mining communities hate her'. Surely the shutting down of mining is just economics? Mining isn't a sustainable thing, it has to end sometime.
Imagine you live in a small Yorkshire village where mining is the only thing that exists. It is the local source of jobs, as in, a good solid 80+% of people who work, work down the pits. Imagine that the government decides not to support the pit any more. Imagine that then 80% of people are unemployed. Oh, we'll retrain them with trades! Easier said that done, and then they ended up with situations where you had a village of a few thousand people with hundreds of plumbers when they need, like, half a dozen.
The problem with Maggie Thatcher's policy (and there were many problems with Maggie Thatcher) wasn't that she shut down an unsustainable industry, it was that she did that and left entire portions of the country in a state of dire poverty with no prospects, setting them back literally decades. There are places which are barely recovering from what she did. And she did this and called it good because she didn't give a fuck about the miners, or the steel workers, or anyone in an industry which relied on support which had kept it going in the place of the main economic provider for many parts of the country who then saw that support disappear overnight.
Maggie Thatcher and her government cut benefits, cut schools, cut the NHS, caused mass unemployment. When there were protests in the north she sent in the met police from the south to kick the shit out of them, so they became riots. She introduced the poll tax, which caused even more riots amongst the poorer parts of society. She promoted the rich and the powerful, the corporations, the city bankers, Thatcherism was the privatisation of systems that people relied upon to provide money to a wealthy classes. Neo-conservatism, there's a reason why she was best buds with Reagan.
So if you are to the right, you remember her as the Iron Lady, who stood up to the EU for us, who won the Falklands, who made the country prosperous and wealthy and who cracked down on the scum. If you are on the left, you remember her as the Iron Lady, who fucked the poor, fucked the ill, fucked the north and the scots and the welsh, who was authoritarian and brutal in her politics and her repression of popular dissent.
thatcher is the british equivalent of ronald reagan. so if you are familiar with american politics that should give you a good idea of what exactly she did to the country
British comics writers in the 80s did not care for Margaret Thatcher. I was just reading early Hellblazer where John Constantine is fighting demons who are literally cheering for the Conservatives to win an election.
There's an issue of Planetary from the early 2000s by Warren Ellis where a character matter-of-factly explains that Thatcher was so crazy that she "wasn't even a woman anymore", whatever that's supposed to mean.
That she was an inhuman monster, I would assume?
It wasn't quite that. It referred to "feminists and women's studies theorists" who were saying that.
Thatcher was arguably a lot worse than Reagan because due to the greater amount of nationalised industries in the UK, and the reliance on state services, and the lack of distinction between regional and national policies, she had far more power over stuff in every day people's lives. Like, we're talking about entire areas where the economy was literally gutted. The jobs just disappeared. She was so intent on breaking the Unions she broke the actual society the Unions came from. Those villages are still ghost villages, deprived, poverty, crime and so on is still endemic.
It wasn't just her. It was the Tories as a party. And it wasn't like they didn't get the votes for it which is still a major point of resentment for a lot of people in places badly affected (when I went to University in Winchester a lot of people were of the opinion that the North/South thing was a friendly rivalry and they were quite surprised and un-nerved when I reminded them that it was Southern constituencies who repeatedly voted to give power to someone who had utterly shattered a lot of people's livelihoods, and it's not a friendly rivalry for them at all).
Thatcher was the face of it, though. And yeah, you can buy your Council House because of her. Woop de fucking do. Infrastructure in this country has never properly recovered from those years of Tory government, and I don't think it really will any time soon either unless we drastically change our view on public spending as a nation.
British comics writers in the 80s did not care for Margaret Thatcher. I was just reading early Hellblazer where John Constantine is fighting demons who are literally cheering for the Conservatives to win an election.
There's an issue of Planetary from the early 2000s by Warren Ellis where a character matter-of-factly explains that Thatcher was so crazy that she "wasn't even a woman anymore", whatever that's supposed to mean.
That she was an inhuman monster, I would assume?
It wasn't quite that. It referred to "feminists and women's studies theorists" who were saying that.
Yeah that's quite a bit of hyperbole
she wasn't a crazy insane psycho evil not-even-a-woman monster
My parents grew up in England during that time. My dad had australian citizenship, and had to come down after graduating just to sort out some family thing, and he was so amazed that you didn't have to go on a waiting list for housing, and that there were actually jobs available that he just called my mum up, invited her down, and they never left.
The town I lived in in Japan is slowly dying, the mine dried up, no one wants to live in the country side, the rice farmers are stuck there, tied to the family land and tied down with crippling debt. Everyone else moves to the cities. Despite registering the highest on the shindo scale during the Tohoku earthquake it is now going to be the new site for nuclear waste.
The youth voting base is apathetic and Abe chips further and further away at militarizing Japan. Japan has the worst TOEFL scores in Asia (last I checked) and is falling behind in many other areas.
even if japanese youth votes more they're outnumbered. japan is in for some rough times for sure as their population crashes. it's expected to lose 2/3rds of the population in the next 50 years
Welcome to the looming crisis facing every government, except probably Russia, involved in WWII.
The looming cliff of the postwar baby boomers that isn't being addressed because the government is still being run by their parent's generation.
the US is 'okay'. we're still getting fucked pretty bad by the baby boomers, but the amount of immigration to the country means we're not going to have a massive population drop off
From the exactly two episodes I've seen so far I can say that I love all the characters and find them really interesting... except Steven. While I do fully intend to watch more, he's actually the thing that kept me from watching more right then. I'm assuming this improves.
Steven develops as a character pretty fast. The annoying aspect of his character diminishes as the series goes on
Gem Glow and Cheeseburger backpack are generally accepted as his worst moments and probably the episodes you saw.
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Nah, but the Japanese only want you there short term, and they WILL make it a pain in the ass for you to live there beyond 3 or 4 years.
The town I lived in in Japan is slowly dying, the mine dried up, no one wants to live in the country side, the rice farmers are stuck there, tied to the family land and tied down with crippling debt. Everyone else moves to the cities. Despite registering the highest on the shindo scale during the Tohoku earthquake it is now going to be the new site for nuclear waste.
The youth voting base is apathetic and Abe chips further and further away at militarizing Japan. Japan has the worst TOEFL scores in Asia (last I checked) and is falling behind in many other areas.
Imma pass.
The disintegration of the assembly-line school-work-pension system in Japan and the failure of the culture to provide something worthwhile in its place as really wrecked that country.
It's a shame, the culture still puts a lot of value in a solid, unwavering work ethic, and people with jobs still put in ridiculous hours without complaint. Imagine if they were actually satisfied and happy.
even if japanese youth votes more they're outnumbered. japan is in for some rough times for sure as their population crashes. it's expected to lose 2/3rds of the population in the next 50 years
Abe's solution appears to be half-hearted tweaks to the economy and nationalism.
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That she was an inhuman monster, I would assume?
Goodness me, me.
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A lot of it was the way she shut the mines down and broke up the unions. They were state owned mines, which she ideologically disagreed with, and her government pushed through privatisation that was very damaging to the economies of smaller towns and cities, especially in the north. Others will know a lot more about it than I do, but from what I know there was a lot of underhanded ways her government pursued its goals. They definitely lied to the public about their plans to close the mines, which rather than being a reaction to some unprofitable mines, was ideologically driven and had been planned from the start of the government's term but was lied about because the extent of the closures was going to be unpopular.
there is a big long thread on here about it
I don't think they're all goofin, dude
Imagine you live in a small Yorkshire village where mining is the only thing that exists. It is the local source of jobs, as in, a good solid 80+% of people who work, work down the pits. Imagine that the government decides not to support the pit any more. Imagine that then 80% of people are unemployed. Oh, we'll retrain them with trades! Easier said that done, and then they ended up with situations where you had a village of a few thousand people with hundreds of plumbers when they need, like, half a dozen.
The problem with Maggie Thatcher's policy (and there were many problems with Maggie Thatcher) wasn't that she shut down an unsustainable industry, it was that she did that and left entire portions of the country in a state of dire poverty with no prospects, setting them back literally decades. There are places which are barely recovering from what she did. And she did this and called it good because she didn't give a fuck about the miners, or the steel workers, or anyone in an industry which relied on support which had kept it going in the place of the main economic provider for many parts of the country who then saw that support disappear overnight.
Maggie Thatcher and her government cut benefits, cut schools, cut the NHS, caused mass unemployment. When there were protests in the north she sent in the met police from the south to kick the shit out of them, so they became riots. She introduced the poll tax, which caused even more riots amongst the poorer parts of society. She promoted the rich and the powerful, the corporations, the city bankers, Thatcherism was the privatisation of systems that people relied upon to provide money to a wealthy classes. Neo-conservatism, there's a reason why she was best buds with Reagan.
So if you are to the right, you remember her as the Iron Lady, who stood up to the EU for us, who won the Falklands, who made the country prosperous and wealthy and who cracked down on the scum. If you are on the left, you remember her as the Iron Lady, who fucked the poor, fucked the ill, fucked the north and the scots and the welsh, who was authoritarian and brutal in her politics and her repression of popular dissent.
So they love her
and we hate her
but we're all her children
you're goofin
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It wasn't quite that. It referred to "feminists and women's studies theorists" who were saying that.
It wasn't just her. It was the Tories as a party. And it wasn't like they didn't get the votes for it which is still a major point of resentment for a lot of people in places badly affected (when I went to University in Winchester a lot of people were of the opinion that the North/South thing was a friendly rivalry and they were quite surprised and un-nerved when I reminded them that it was Southern constituencies who repeatedly voted to give power to someone who had utterly shattered a lot of people's livelihoods, and it's not a friendly rivalry for them at all).
Thatcher was the face of it, though. And yeah, you can buy your Council House because of her. Woop de fucking do. Infrastructure in this country has never properly recovered from those years of Tory government, and I don't think it really will any time soon either unless we drastically change our view on public spending as a nation.
Yeah that's quite a bit of hyperbole
she wasn't a crazy insane psycho evil not-even-a-woman monster
She was just a fucking nasty bit of work
My grandad had to raise two teenage lads on a steelworkers wage and then to have to go through all that.
It's so easy to forget.
it was really bad
and the worst thing was that nobody cared
they still got in, didn't they
people still voted for them even after that
makes you sick, really, how callous they were. Fuckers
Quite lucky, all in all.
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The town I lived in in Japan is slowly dying, the mine dried up, no one wants to live in the country side, the rice farmers are stuck there, tied to the family land and tied down with crippling debt. Everyone else moves to the cities. Despite registering the highest on the shindo scale during the Tohoku earthquake it is now going to be the new site for nuclear waste.
The youth voting base is apathetic and Abe chips further and further away at militarizing Japan. Japan has the worst TOEFL scores in Asia (last I checked) and is falling behind in many other areas.
Imma pass.
The looming cliff of the postwar baby boomers that isn't being addressed because the government is still being run by their parent's generation.
Steven develops as a character pretty fast. The annoying aspect of his character diminishes as the series goes on
Gem Glow and Cheeseburger backpack are generally accepted as his worst moments and probably the episodes you saw.
Nah, but the Japanese only want you there short term, and they WILL make it a pain in the ass for you to live there beyond 3 or 4 years.
The disintegration of the assembly-line school-work-pension system in Japan and the failure of the culture to provide something worthwhile in its place as really wrecked that country.
It's a shame, the culture still puts a lot of value in a solid, unwavering work ethic, and people with jobs still put in ridiculous hours without complaint. Imagine if they were actually satisfied and happy.
Abe's solution appears to be half-hearted tweaks to the economy and nationalism.
the fact that the US is one of the most welcoming country in the world to immigrants is crazy
Its literally what we were founded on
Just because some people have forgotten doesn't mean we all have