Robert Mugabe: Redefining Irony

[Phaedrus]

The New American Heritage Dictionary (Fourth Edition) defines irony as:

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Incongruity between what one might expect and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying of the nation she most hated." (Richard Kain)
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Robert Mugabe defines irony as:

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Stealing your land, not being able to do anything with it, then leasing it back to you so that you will grow crops on it, which you will sell to whom you are told in order to raise money for the government.
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Phaedrus

 

[angusr]

Robert Mugabe is a thug and an idiot. Somehow found a way to steal from one group and give to another, and yet still ensure that both end up worse off in the end.

 

[FloydGondolli]

It's sad to see the cliche "The inmates are running the asylum" come to life. That's Zimbabwe under Mugabe.