Blast from the past 1988
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Re: Blast from the past 1988
"Very fine people on both sides"...John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:48 amThat Margaret Thatcher would on national TV say that there were good and bad factions within the Khmer Rouge. This was someone who refused to recognize the parallel disaster that was happening in the UK at the time.
Re: Blast from the past 1988
It's called human nature and reality, with a touch of geopolitics. Black and white is for photography.nerdlinger wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:34 am"Very fine people on both sides"...John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:48 amThat Margaret Thatcher would on national TV say that there were good and bad factions within the Khmer Rouge. This was someone who refused to recognize the parallel disaster that was happening in the UK at the time.
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Re: Blast from the past 1988
A truly deranged quote.
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No, sod that. The Khmer Rouge were genocidal assholes and there's no way that anyone in a position of power didn't know what they were a member of. If that view makes me unsophisticated then that's something I'm willing to live with.snoink wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:40 amIt's called human nature and reality, with a touch of geopolitics. Black and white is for photography.nerdlinger wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:34 am"Very fine people on both sides"...John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:48 amThat Margaret Thatcher would on national TV say that there were good and bad factions within the Khmer Rouge. This was someone who refused to recognize the parallel disaster that was happening in the UK at the time.
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I liked the interviewer's reaction. Like how awful do you have to be that Blue Peter are going full Paxman on you.John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:48 am That Margaret Thatcher would on national TV say that there were good and bad factions within the Khmer Rouge.
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Re: Blast from the past 1988
You are aware that a large portion of government and powerful business people served in the KR.nerdlinger wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:27 pm
No, sod that. The Khmer Rouge were genocidal assholes and there's no way that anyone in a position of power didn't know what they were a member of. If that view makes me unsophisticated then that's something I'm willing to live with.
Says a lot about the care factor for the common people against lining of the pockets..............sorry the investment genius of the wives.
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