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Niels Bohr famously dissolved the medal he got for his Nobel Price for chemistry in acid when the Nazis invaded his home country of Denmark, to prevent it from falling into the Nazis' hands.

Unlike him, the most recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of all things, who shall not be named here, because she doesn't deserve being named, handed her medal to a deranged megalomaniac and fascist wannabe dictator.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 60 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The nobel prize has been a joke since Kissinger won it anyway.

[–] guy@piefed.social 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Nothing in the motivation for the peace prize says you can't start a war before making peace! This might be Trumps grand strategy. Imagine being the one who brokers peace in a war between NATO states. That's a guaranteed winner

Kissinger investigating war crimes in Vietnam and Cambodia.

[–] III@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yet the war between Trump and his own diaper will continue unresolved.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

While he is the ultimate bastard, there were others before him, like Willy Brandt.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's wrong with Willy Brandt?

I read this comment like "before Kissinger, there were people who won the prize who weren't utter bastards".

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

Honestly, when I made that comment, I did think that he probably wasn't the earliest example.