She dragged the UK into the Iraq War you goddamn fucks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
She *did*?? Single-handedly? Wow. Wonder if anyone told Tony Blair...?
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Replying to @LauraGr31918310 @arthur_affect and
Seems 99% of instances of "wrong people being credited for things" come down to men getting praise for good things women did, or women getting blamed for bad things men did. Rum.
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Replying to @LauraGr31918310 @Shatterface and
Right, so was she a powerless helpless random bystander in the government or is she an inspiring hero who changed the world Or does she flip from one to the other depending on whether the thing she's associated with was good or bad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
I mean, you know that's what people do, right? People are wrong about some things and right about others? That's sort of humanity 101, hon
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Replying to @LauraGr31918310 @Shatterface and
Yes, and they are responsible for the things they get wrong, and they deserve to carry the blame for them instead of having their fans wave them off like it doesn't matter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
Yeah... I mean, you're not going to convince me Baroness Nichols is "responsible for" the Iraq war, Arthur. Great that you've found someone to blame, though. A woman, no less! One fighting to safeguard women and children! *Purely by coincidence*!
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Replying to @LauraGr31918310 @Shatterface and
It's not a coincidence, people with awful regressive views on one thing tend to have them on a bunch of other things too It's why we have political parties
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LauraGr31918310 and
I know that fascists usually like to portray their enemies as both simultaneously weak and strong, as Umberto Eco pointed out, but I never realised that they did the same to their heroes.
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Replying to @phyphor @arthur_affect and
She's simultaneously a weak, frail, old woman who it would be misogynistic bullying to criticise, and also a powerful voice for the underdog who should be supported in her virtuous fight for the powerless.
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I'd like them to just fucking sit down with each other and decide whether Nicholson's advocacy for invading Iraq 1) never happened and I made it up, 2) happened but was totally ineffective and irrelevant so it doesn't matter, 3) was effective and relevant and *good*, actually
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