Iron Lady has died

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$tevie wrote:
On a side note, I think it is ludicrous that there is an effort to have a "non-political" thread about her death on the other side. If a musician dies do we not discuss their music? If an actor dies do we not discuss their movies? I fail to see the point of a thread where everyone is meant to post fond farewells, or neutral farewells let's say, to someone that none of us knew. What is the point, exactly? To bask in the warmth of non-genuine non-reflective grief for a total stranger?

I moved this thread because it had gotten political, as expected.
I put up the other thread as a news story, since this is where I first found out about her death and I thought others might find it newsworthy. I at first left one of those 'notifications' that the thread had been moved, but those things make the page look so ugly, I decided that a new 'news story' thread would be better.

No one is obligated to post to either thread. Fond farewells were not being solicited. People may have wanted to post something about her Alzheimer's or what a great job Meryl Streep did portraying her in the movie, or this might just be the first place they saw the news.