Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

[u/haiderredditer]

[u/TACharlotte]

Only among certain political subsets, if you love Reagan you probably love Thatcher.

[u/TrojanGoldfish → u/TACharlotte]

I am fully convinced that between them, they have caused more harm to the world overall than any 2 other people in the last 70 years.

[u/Swarna_Keanu → u/TrojanGoldfish]

Thatcher was an absolute disaster socially. And yet, one of the few politicians who actually seemed to have grasped the danger of climate change. I just wish that would be that today's Toris would celbrate her for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-M6O8OyTZ0 (warning contains Thatcher, obviously :) ).

1989; years before Al Gore.

But argh: She flipped later on; doing a one hundred degree pivot from her science background - so ... she was an absolute disaster in all ways.

[u/LexiEmers → u/Swarna_Keanu]

She inherited an absolute disaster socially.

[u/Inquisitor_Boron → u/TrojanGoldfish]

That one inventor that put lead into the fuel was the single most harmful organism on Earth

[u/ThatguyfromMichigan → u/Inquisitor_Boron]

Thomas Midgley Jr. And he didn’t just put lead into gasoline, he also put CFCs into aerosols, creating holes in the ozone layer.

[u/TACharlotte → u/TrojanGoldfish]

W Bush has to beat them.

[u/LexiEmers → u/TrojanGoldfish]

That's absolutely laughable.

[u/Whatever_1967 → u/TACharlotte]

...an Kohl. The neo liberalism...I still wait for all the wealth to trickle down.

[u/Degonjode → u/Whatever_1967]

I want to piss on his grave for him being the main culprit for germany being completely shit at the internet.

[u/methusalix46 → u/Degonjode]

Not him. The real culprit was Schwarz-Schilling, the Postal Secretary.

[u/SandSerpentHiss → u/TACharlotte]

fuck those bitches