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Robert Mugabe RIP

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  • #32
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


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


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #34
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The humour bypass was successful.
    Stick to the day job, Horse, if you ever find one.


  • #36
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    RIP
    coming-to-america.jpg


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  • #42
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,702 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    quote="Boom_Bap;111185514"]RIP
    coming-to-america.jpg[/quote]
    God ! James Earle Jones as well. On top of Bowie. Prince at all. Bad few years


  • #43
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭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?


  • #44
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #45
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭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


  • #46
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭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?"


  • #48
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭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!


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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


  • #50
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭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.


  • #51
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Not sure what the fashionable thing to say here so I’ll say nothing.


  • #53
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Bastard, I almost became a mod of AH but for him.


  • #54
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    MILD!!!
    It was a f*cking zinger of a gag. A zinger.


  • #55
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    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.
    Oh waaaaa waaaaaa over thanking a mild joke. Aren't you brilliant that you spotted a teeny bit of (what's in your head as) hypocrisy. And also, it's a joke about Mugabe, not his victims so YOU can quit pretending it bothers you in your bid to look like the enlightened superior guy of AH.

    Again though, using this to go on about Sinn Fein (courtesy of the resident bootlicker of the British) and the left is vile.


  • #56
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Oh waaaaa waaaaaa over thanking a mild joke. Aren't you brilliant that you spotted a teeny bit of (what's in your head as) hypocrisy. And also, it's a joke about Mugabe, not his victims so YOU can quit pretending it bothers you in your bid to look like the enlightened superior guy of AH.

    Again though, using this to go on about Sinn Fein (courtesy of the resident bootlicker of the British) and the left is vile.

    “Waaaaa waaaa waaaa”

    “Reeeee reeeee reeeee”

    Come back to me when you can use your words.


  • #57
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    “Waaaaa waaaa waaaa”

    “Reeeee reeeee reeeee”

    Come back to me when you can use your words.
    Yes, they're the only terms I use. I don't write any others.

    Poor.


  • #58
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Joke thread as this is - some of the news reporting on him is surprisingly timid.


  • #59
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    jippo nolan wrote: »
    They did, they fought them in bars & haciendas!

    Yep,party central apparently for the young FGs,they shot their own side because they were so flutered.


  • #60
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    A big factor in Africa is tribalism - discrimination against tribes.
    Mugabe was a Shona, about 75% of Zimbabwians.
    Joshua Nkoma was from the Ndebele tribe, about 10/15% of the population.

    When it comes to handing out jobs, land, state positions, tribe looks after tribe.
    The usual setup is to have one political party, the leader controlling the party, selecting candidates for elections.
    In Zimbabwe ZANU-PF won elections, Robert Mugabe got elected president.


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  • #61
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    He started out with good intentions. Freedom and justice for his country.

    Like many countries, it ended up with mass corruption, nepotism and suppression of democracy.

    The Zimbabweans traded racist white rule for incompetent local rule.


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