Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

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What a woman! A fierce and powerful actor, and as a politician she was edged out of the Labour Party as it became more right wing, I am here to speak well of the dead for she deserves it. Not least for refusing to speak well of the evil shit Thatcher when she died. If you cannot speak ill of the evil dead, then be silent and let the truth be told by those that can.

Ní bheith a leithéad ann arís!

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ITV News just showed that clip of her talking about Thatcher in the House. Good for them!

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I envy anyone who still hasn’t seen Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). Glenda played Queen Elizabeth I and steals every scene. Such a brilliant actor.

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Well found - thanks - but sadly this video will not play for me - I hit the ‘play’ button and nothing happens.

Here’s the full 6-minute-plus version of that wonderful speech, and the reaction


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Region-restricted? :frowning_face:

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It’s ITV News and I’m in the UK. If they don’t want people in the UK watching videos on their own website, well, WTF sort of marketing ploy is that? :man_shrugging:

(Suspicion possibly cast on my Brave Browser and it being not quite the current version. “OMG a user using a non-mass-market browser on a back-level OS version!!!” seems to be an all too common web server reaction these days.)

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I here ya.

Awhile back, Saturday Night Live prevented some of their YouTube stuff from being seen here in the US; attempted views back then resulted in “region-restricted” or words to that effect. ???

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ETA: And a reminder that somehow, this guy is still alive:

“He must be stopped at all costs. We’ve got to get him,” Kissinger said during a meeting with the president, shortly after the Supreme Court ruled on the Pentagon Papers.

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Nothing un-parliamentary has occurred.

Perfect response to shut him up.

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It turns out that Cormac McCarthy and Roger Payne were friends.

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This interview with Carol King showed up in my feed.

What a wonderful time it must have been for that gang.

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(Crossposted to Neurodiversity)

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See my response in the neurodiversity thread!

To be 100% accurate: the first person diagnosed with autism in the United States.

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 per Nixon’s orders, perhaps to stop Ellsberg from revealing this (given his access to numerous sensitive docs):

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