Robert Mugabe RIP

skooterblue2 · 06-09-2019 11:49AM #1

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

06-09-2019 11:51AM

We're applauding his demise in Current Affairs.

Raconteuse · 06-09-2019 11:51AM

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 · 06-09-2019 11:51AM

Burying him is a waste of dirt.

06-09-2019 11:54AM

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 · 06-09-2019 11:55AM

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 · 06-09-2019 11:56AM

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

Woke Hogan · 06-09-2019 11:57AM

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.

06-09-2019 11:59AM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:02PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:03PM

Good riddance I say. He’s no loss.

skooterblue2 · 06-09-2019 12:04PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:04PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:06PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:08PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:11PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:12PM

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

blinding · 06-09-2019 12:14PM

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 .

06-09-2019 12:15PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:15PM

Tchaikovsky · 06-09-2019 12:16PM

Only the good die young

AudreyHepburn · 06-09-2019 12:19PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:28PM

hes wit d angles now xx

The Tetrarch · 06-09-2019 12:40PM

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

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 06-09-2019 12:45PM

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 · 06-09-2019 12:47PM

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

Dreadful despot

Woke Hogan · 06-09-2019 12:54PM

The Tetrarch wrote: »

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

What a trite comment.

06-09-2019 12:55PM

Woke Hogan wrote: »

What a trite comment.

The humour bypass was successful.

Zubeneschamali · 06-09-2019 12:58PM

Doctors have described his condition as "Much improved".

biko · 06-09-2019 01:12PM

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 · 06-09-2019 01:39PM

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

Robert Mugabe RIP

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