Zimbabwe Dollar to be phased out and replaced with US dollar

[Loren Pechtel]

Aii the usual suspects here: Left wing dreamers and apologists with Left wing/revolutionary BS.

Are you asserting that Mugabe is left wing?

He pretends to be, doing standard insane-left economic things.

 

[whichphilosophy]

Are you asserting that Mugabe is left wing?

He pretends to be, doing standard insane-left economic things.

He's certainly been doing insane economic things.

 

[arkirk]

I researched it myself and didn't need his link. This occurred in the early 80's when I was busy with environmental groups in the California Desert where there truly were no good news sources on matters in Africa. I learned about the 5th Brigade, a regular death squad operation trained by North Korea and turned loose on unruly factions in Zimbabwe from Wikipedia. Actually that kind of violence also reflects the ignorance and political vacuum left behind by colonial powers. I do not condone what happened, but can only ask the loud complaining Bomb 20 what did he do about it? Also, what kind of solution would he apply to the country today?

None of this has anything do with the fact that you are supporting someone who the world agrees has committed genocide.

It has nothing to do with the vacuum left by the colonial powers--as so often happens there were competing factions and the one that was willing to be the most evil is the one that won.

And as for what you should do--quit supporting him. I'm not asking you to come up with a solution to Mugabe--the only one that I think would work would be a Hellfire and the political climate doesn't make that a good idea at all.

As usual your solution is violence. You prefer that I think like you and embrace hopelessness. Mugabe came from a political vacuum and your solution to him is to create another vacuum and another Mugabe? That's how it looks to me. Our current president is busy gunning for his enemies with hellfire missiles and not doing a good job at all. You just seem like a missile salesman to me with no real civilizing agenda. Left or right is not the real issue in Zimbabwe. It is getting down to trying to get enough consensus to limit widespread suffering. That is a different issue than you spend all your energies on. Your precious morality and golden belief in enforced morality disqualifies you when it comes to dealing with actual situations with real people who need food, medicine, housing, and water. The 5th Brigade in the 80's was a clear indication that Mugabe was not doing the right thing at that time and felt murder was his only answer. I agree it was an atrocity among atrocities.

Actually, Mugabe is a side issue to the problems the country still faces...redistribution of sufficient necessities to forestall humanitarian disaster. Punishing the guilty will not necessarily help those currently at risk. So I ask you again, what do you think should be done in Zimbabwe?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

None of this has anything do with the fact that you are supporting someone who the world agrees has committed genocide.

It has nothing to do with the vacuum left by the colonial powers--as so often happens there were competing factions and the one that was willing to be the most evil is the one that won.

And as for what you should do--quit supporting him. I'm not asking you to come up with a solution to Mugabe--the only one that I think would work would be a Hellfire and the political climate doesn't make that a good idea at all.

As usual your solution is violence. You prefer that I think like you and embrace hopelessness. Mugabe came from a political vacuum and your solution to him is to create another vacuum and another Mugabe? That's how it looks to me. Our current president is busy gunning for his enemies with hellfire missiles and not doing a good job at all. You just seem like a missile salesman to me with no real civilizing agenda. Left or right is not the real issue in Zimbabwe. It is getting down to trying to get enough consensus to limit widespread suffering. That is a different issue than you spend all your energies on. Your precious morality and golden belief in enforced morality disqualifies you when it comes to dealing with actual situations with real people who need food, medicine, housing, and water. The 5th Brigade in the 80's was a clear indication that Mugabe was not doing the right thing at that time and felt murder was his only answer. I agree it was an atrocity among atrocities.

Actually, Mugabe is a side issue to the problems the country still faces...redistribution of sufficient necessities to forestall humanitarian disaster. Punishing the guilty will not necessarily help those currently at risk. So I ask you again, what do you think should be done in Zimbabwe?

You seem to miss the fact that Mugabe favors widespread suffering of those that don't support him. It's pretty hard to stop a genocide being instigated by the ruler of a country other than by removing him from being ruler.

 

[Bronzeage]

Are you asserting that Mugabe is left wing?

He pretends to be, doing standard insane-left economic things.

Taking farmland from farmers and giving it to friends and relatives is not a leftist economic thing, even if it is called "Land Reform." Mugabe is an old fashioned right wing fascist dictator.

 

[Derec]

Mugabe is an old fashioned right wing fascist dictator.

I wonder how long it will take for Maduro to be declared a right winger ...

 

[Loren Pechtel]

He pretends to be, doing standard insane-left economic things.

Taking farmland from farmers and giving it to friends and relatives is not a leftist economic thing, even if it is called "Land Reform." Mugabe is an old fashioned right wing fascist dictator.

Keyword: Pretends.

He pretends to redistribute the land but in reality almost all of it went to cronies, not the people on the land.