Robert Mugabe RIP

skooterblue2

Nice guy, Robert.
Average badminton doubles and a lousy Karaoke singer.
But he liked his dogs and was rather crap to everyone else.
But lets remember the nice things

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/in-pictures-the-life-and-career-of-robert-mugabe-948694.html

We're applauding his demise in Current Affairs.

Raconteuse

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Nice guy, Robert.
Average badminton doubles and a lousy Karaoke singer.
But he liked his dogs and was rather crap to everyone else.
Bet lets remember the nice things

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/in-pictures-the-life-and-career-of-robert-mugabe-948694.html

There's enough of this disingenuous nonsense about what a great guy the brutal dictator was (from people who are usually moaning about "blacks") on the CA forum.

Woke Hogan

Burying him is a waste of dirt.

riffmongous

Far too late, and more or less irrelevant now that he was deposed. He needed to die around 10 years ago back when Tsangirai had a real chance of replacing him but he just hung in there

JohnnyFlash

Our current President was a big fan of Mugabe in his time. Mugabe had impeccable Marxist Leninist credentials, and was a beacon of revolution in Africa when he came to power.

He might send out a message of condolence like he did for Castro.

mloc123

Had the pleasure of meeting him at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

Woke Hogan

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Our current President was a big fan of Mugabe in his time. Mugabe had impeccable Marxist Leninist credentials, and was a beacon of revolution in Africa when he came to power.

He might send out a message of condolence like he did for Castro.

Robert Mugabe was in Young Fine Gael.

riffmongous

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Our current President was a big fan of Mugabe in his time. Mugabe had impeccable Marxist Leninist credentials, and was a beacon of revolution in Africa when he came to power.

He might send out a message of condolence like he did for Castro.

Sure your lads went and actually fought for Franco. 150-200,000 murders during and after the war, do you still mourn him?

skooterblue2

mloc123 wrote: »

Had the pleasure of meeting him at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

Yeah but he had a longer run than Idi Amin but just as progressive at his own pace.

AudreyHepburn

Good riddance I say. He’s no loss.

skooterblue2

riffmongous wrote: »

Sure your lads went and actually fought for Franco. 150-200,000 murders during and after the war, do you still mourn him?

I dont think the Irish Blue Shirts even saw combat in Spain where as the communist regiemes were ever bit as brutal

AudreyHepburn

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Our current President was a big fan of Mugabe in his time. Mugabe had impeccable Marxist Leninist credentials, and was a beacon of revolution in Africa when he came to power.

He might send out a message of condolence like he did for Castro.

Before Mugabe showed his true colors I imagine.

Raconteuse

Despite his treatment of white farmers, seems to be these normally right-wing whites who praise Mugabe (but they'd be critical of other dictators). Why is that? What edgy anti woke thing did he do?

touts

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Before Mugabe showed his true colors I imagine.

Mickey D has never been afraid to demonstrate his support for socialist mass murderers no matter how much evidence has piled up against them. I don't think he believes any action is wrong once the red flag is wrapped around it. My bet is he will issue some statement of condolence given that he no longer has to worry about being elected.

blinding

Great longevity but longevity is not everything .

I wonder does he and his like have meet ups in the after life .

Compare notes sort of thing .

Raconteuse

I guess the odds of longevity are in your favour when you're living in luxury and not an ordinary Zimbabwean.

blinding

Raconteuse wrote: »

I guess the odds of longevity are in your favour when you're living in luxury and not an ordinary Zimbabwean.

For his longevity many others were cut short .

riffmongous

skooterblue2 wrote: »

I dont think the Irish Blue Shirts even saw combat in Spain where as the communist regiemes were ever bit as brutal

They were sent to the front and fired on by their own side by accident, then spent some weeks garrisoning a town before being sent to launch an attack on a village, which failed, with casualties

The Red Terror was brutal yes, that they were every bit as brutal however is to be rejected The number of deaths from the Whites was much higher, and followed a different pattern to the Reds. A large amount happened within the first month of the conflict in the major cities, while the Nationalists engaged in systematic cleansing

NoviGlitzko

Tchaikovsky

Only the good die young

AudreyHepburn

touts wrote: »

Mickey D has never been afraid to demonstrate his support for socialist mass murderers no matter how much evidence has piled up against them. I don't think he believes any action is wrong once the red flag is wrapped around it. My bet is he will issue some statement of condolence given that he no longer has to worry about being elected.

I’m not so sure you really know a thing about our President to be honest.

Again any support he showed for any despot would have been shown before said despot showed himself for what he really was.

Bigbagofcans

hes wit d angles now xx

The Tetrarch

That's the problem with freedom fighters, they get in power, and there is no freedom.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Our current President was a big fan of Mugabe in his time. Mugabe had impeccable Marxist Leninist credentials, and was a beacon of revolution in Africa when he came to power.

He might send out a message of condolence like he did for Castro.

I’m getting a sense of déjà vu from this post.

Anyway re: Mugabe, good riddance.

Mad_maxx

Managed to be much worse than the racist Smith who came before him

Dreadful despot

Woke Hogan

The Tetrarch wrote: »

That's the problem with freedom fighters, they get in power, and there is no freedom.

What a trite comment.

Woke Hogan

Woke Hogan wrote: »

What a trite comment.

The humour bypass was successful.

Zubeneschamali

Doctors have described his condition as "Much improved".

biko

If only he could died 35 years ago..

Hindsight is 20-20 but

Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Lenihan Snr paid tribute to Mugabe’s leadership in the Dáil in May 1981. Mugabe had survived at the helm, at that point, “for more than a year in the difficult initial stage of nationhood”.

Lenihan added: “All the indications are that Zimbabwe will survive and will be a nation with a real leadership role within the African community.”

Edgware

Will Gerry Adams be invited to carry the coffin of the great Zimbabwean Liberator?

Fr_Dougal

Some of the comments in this thread are sickening, his family could be reading this.

Fr_Dougal

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Some of the comments in this thread are sickening, his family could be reading this.

It's a disgrace. You had better talk to Joe.

Raconteuse

Edgware wrote: »

Will Gerry Adams be invited to carry the coffin of the great Zimbabwean Liberator?

No commentary on his own deeds - just "reeeeeee Sinn Fein liked him" and "reeeeeee the far left liked him".

Such "concern" for the people who suffered under him.

Woke Hogan

Deleted User wrote: »

The humour bypass was successful.

Stick to the day job, Horse, if you ever find one.

touts

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

I’m not so sure you really know a thing about our President to be honest.

Again any support he showed for any despot would have been shown before said despot showed himself for what he really was.

Fidel Castro.

Ipso

touts wrote: »

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

I’m not so sure you really know a thing about our President to be honest.

Again any support he showed for any despot would have been shown before said despot showed himself for what he really was.

Fidel Castro.

Peace be upon him.

Edgware

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Some of the comments in this thread are sickening, his family could be reading this.

I'd say that they are too busy going through the Swiss bank accounts containing the millions he robbed from the Zimbabwean people. He drove a great economy, the bread basket of Africa, into the ground. While the Rhodesian state under Iain Smith was not ideal it was streets ahead of Mugabe's corrupt regime.

touts

Ipso wrote: »

Peace be upon him.

That's certainly Mickey D's view.

Of course most reasonable people would say peace be upon the victims of the likes of Castro, Mugabe, Mao, Stalin and the many other great socialist icons that have stalked this world.

Richard Hillman

I think the President has to run it by the government if he wants to write another eulogy for a dictator. They probably pulled a stop to this one.

I am amazed that the Castro one was agreed and passed by the government.

Boom_Bap

RIP

cj maxx

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God ! James Earle Jones as well. On top of Bowie. Prince at all. Bad few years

Woke Hogan

Raconteuse wrote: »

No commentary on his own deeds - just "reeeeeee Sinn Fein liked him" and "reeeeeee the far left liked him".

Such "concern" for the people who suffered under him.

After this you went on to like a "hilarious" post pretending to mix Mugabe up with a character from an Eddie Murphy comedy. Where were your crocodile tears for his victims then?

Boom_Bap

Woke Hogan wrote: »

After this you went on to like a "hilarious" post pretending to mix Mugabe up with a character from an Eddie Murphy comedy. Where were your crocodile tears for his victims then?

why did you put the word "hilarious" in quotes?

Raconteuse

Woke Hogan wrote: »

After this you went on to like a "hilarious" post pretending to mix Mugabe up with a character from an Eddie Murphy comedy. Where were your crocodile tears for his victims then?

Jeez I thought anyone would be capable of seeing the separation between the two.

Why so hostile Woke? xx

Woke Hogan

Raconteuse wrote: »

Jeez I thought anyone would be capable of seeing the separation between the two.

Why so hostile Woke? xx

Such "concern" for the people who suffered under him.

Raconteuse

A mild joke is hardly the same as deflecting from the topic at hand to push an irrelevant political agenda (but you know this).

And I'm not a fan of Sinn Fein/the far left, but this thread isn't called "Why are the far left fans of Robert Mugabe?"

jippo nolan

skooterblue2 wrote: »

I dont think the Irish Blue Shirts even saw combat in Spain where as the communist regiemes were ever bit as brutal

They did, they fought them in bars & haciendas!

riffmongous

Raconteuse wrote: »

No commentary on his own deeds - just "reeeeeee Sinn Fein liked him" and "reeeeeee the far left liked him".

Such "concern" for the people who suffered under him.

+1000 when he was beating and murdering the opposition, and driving the ordinary people to destitution it was the 'far left wokey' types who gave a shït. The smug alt-right scum couldn't care less about the people of Zimbabwe, they're only interested in using it to have a go politically or to justify their own imperialism/racism

Yer Da sells Avon

Woke Hogan wrote: »

After this you went on to like a "hilarious" post pretending to mix Mugabe up with a character from an Eddie Murphy comedy. Where were your crocodile tears for his victims then?

Jesus, who pays attention to what posts other people thank? Desperate stuff.

Woke Hogan

Raconteuse wrote: »

A mild joke is hardly the same as deflecting from the topic at hand to push an irrelevant political agenda (but you know this).

And I'm not a fan of Sinn Fein/the far left, but this thread isn't called "Why are the far left fans of Robert Mugabe?"

Yeah I'm sure his victims would love that "mild joke."

I personally don't care but I'm not the one who came in here squealing like a pig at people for not showing concern for his victims, or for choosing to not discuss Robert Mugabe's life and influence from one particular angle.

You can quit it with the "you know this" stuff as well. It doesn't make you look as insightful as you clearly think it does.