Tobacco Company Hires Margaret Thatcher as Consultant
www.latimes.com
The Philip Morris tobacco company is hiring former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a nonsmoker, for $1 million to serve as its international political consultant, the Sunday Times said.
  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
    7313·
    1 year ago

    Why are you posting this in YSK? How does this information improve anyone’s life in any way?

    There is literally no-one here who doesn’t already think Thatcher was a piece of shit.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.world
        710·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, okay. But anger doesn’t make my life better. If I’m browsing this community I expect tips that can potentially improve the quality of my life, not just finding out about more mud on a dead 20th century dirt bag politician to be angry about.

        • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          1 year ago

          Works both ways though. It was an interesting post and overreacting discourages others from posting when it is difficult to find a place where something fits.

          We really need people that post cool or unique stuff far more than we need any unnecessary pedantism. Just because you imagine some specific category of a community does not make that universal by any stretch. This OP is trying to participate in posting with over twice the posts that you have made on this account. I’m an order of magnitude more than them in that regard. Posting is something to value highly from anyone here, narcissistic whining – not so much. I would post a lot more if people were more positive, as would many others, remember that. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution, but you are not an exception.

    • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
      201·
      1 year ago

      I don’t follow much politics, and I dont follow political history either. I felt that this was a quality post and I appreciated it.

      You’d do yourself a favor by not thinking and speaking for all of us.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.world
        53·
        1 year ago

        I’m not speaking for anyone but myself. I view this post as an example of a very persistent problem with Lemmy as a platform. Namely, that it seems only have four topics that people ever post about:

        1. Politics
        2. Linux
        3. Star Trek
        4. Porn

        There’s nothing inherently wrong with posting about these topics but it really seems like whenever there exists a community isn’t about topics 2-4, people will make it about topic 1.

    • njm1314@lemmy.world
      51·
      1 year ago

      Everyone’s life is made better by actively trashing Thatcher. That’s just a fact.

    • utopiah@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I for one knew it and yet I enjoy, in a very tragic way, discovering that she was, actually, even worst than I thought.

    • daniel_callahan@jlai.luOP
      284·
      1 year ago

      Because she is still respected/admired by some folks in Britain and the USA.

      They think it’s just some leftists throwing a taper tantrum.

      No. This woman was a real abomination. Everyone should be factually aware of the things she did, in order to successfully argue against her admirers.

      • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.socialEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        I dont think that those that you’re trying to inform will care. She destroyed communities. Specifically Essex, Newcastle, Yorkshire, Liverpool, and most of Wales and Scotland…but there are still people in those places that are fans of her.