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I literally doubled over laughing when they gave Machado the Peace Prize. What a fucking joke.
They gave Kissinger a peace prize so it was already a joke tbh. I would take it as a slight to receive one.
Kissinger won in '73, right after the bombing of Cambodia. Obama in '09 as he was gassing up the jets to level Libya and butcher Afghans for another eight years. Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzakh Rabin - three avowed terrorists - all got the prize in 1994 shortly before they fell back into their low-grade civil war. Kofi Annan and the UN won in 2001, seven years into running the phenomenally corrupt "Oil for Food" program used to loot Iraq.
It's a bad award for bad people.
Obama got the peace prize for literally not being W. Bush. No other reason.
Obama fans don't like hearing about how bad he was.
Agreed, the Obama administration was rotten, but boy, was he charismatic. My dislike of him has been one point of contention between my standard-issue US liberal neighbor while helping bridge the gap with my recovering MAGA other neighbor.
He was probably the best president we've had since Carter; which is just sad.
Fuck, that IS depressing. Every four years we just hope for someone less awful than the last guy.
Obama is the Democrat Reagan.
Did a bunch of shit that was objectively bad, but he was quick witted and great on camera, with some haters who didn't like him for dipshit reasons (racism masked by "dijon mustard" and "tan suit"), which helped to alivate the actual legitimate criticisms of his administration.
The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union (EU) (founded in 1958) "for over six decades [having] contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" by a unanimous decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
That is a bigger joke.
I'm glad Ben Norton included the bit about Machado's superrich cousin going to Miami on private jet shopping trips & making fun of how poor Americans were, it was really illustrative of what the comprador elite are like since they're the result of much sharper inequality. Mostly just really funny though
In a few more months, she'll be taking the title of President off Juan Guaidó.
The "Peace Prize" winner has been trying to violently overthrow the Venezuelan government since the Bush Era failed coup in 2002.
So, her award is as valid as Obama’s.
She's got a lot of dead bodies to stack up before she reaches the Obama tier. But if the confrontation along Venezuela's cost goes hot, she could get there quick.
Nobel peace price was invented to whitewash war profiteering. it just going back to it's roots
Yes you said that already
Yes.
peace price was invented to whitewash war profiteering. it just going back to it's roots
The winner of the Dynamite "Peace" Prize likes war, what a surprise.
Right wing "patriots" selling their country out to foreign interests, a tale as old as time.
Also usually the ones pushing some kind of antisemitic narrative ala "global elites controlling the country".
Right wing populist patriotism is just a total joke invented to exploit the poor and stupid...
She is pro-Israel and extremely Islamophobic.
peace price was invented to whitewash war profiteering. it just going back to it's roots
Ah, so it's wałęsa type of nobel.
I feel like at least half of the peace prizes have been given to pro-western / color revolution "dissidents" since the 60s
And the other half to the war mongers like Henry Kissinger and Obama.
Also, wasn’t the Nobel Prize kind of just a western PR stunt?
The science ones are generally legitimate. The literature and peace prizes have been wholly co-opted by western interests. The economics prize isn’t even a real Nobel, it’s just a prize sponsored by the Swedish central bank and administered by the Nobel Institute, and it’s a pure PR tool for legitimizing neoliberalism.
The peace prize yes. They've made really questionable choices from Kissinger to Obama (Who really did win because Not Bush). No one should take it seriously.
At least Wałęsa didn’t want his nation to die under tyranny.
That's a very risky statement. wałęsa is the personification of the worst stereotypes of lumpenproletariat, he ~~would~~ DID sold entire nation under the tyranny of the exact same capitalism she is doing. If that would entail violent forever war at the hand of USA, why not, in a blink.
I feel like the CIA forced her getting the peace prize for the upcoming war, but she's really fucking bad at manufacturing consent.
The elites can't see that because she says everything they want but I think this kinda shit doesn't go well with literally everyone else
Right wing white oppo leader talking about selling out your country to imperialists IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE is peak tone deafness
God bless Maduro honestly I would throw this hag in the pit
Evil fucker
So I can assume anyone who wins a Nobel Prize is a fascist cunt, got it.
Presenting: The Forest Gump of war crimes, the man who's currently teaching Satan a trick or two of his in hell. Props to my man Le Duc Tho for declining the charade of sharing a peace prize with one of the worst war criminals in modern times.
That ghoul can offer what she wants, she has as much decision making power as Guaido.
From Pope to Obama. She is every powerful figure's darling.
She also publicly thanked the founders of the Atlas network, a US right wing think tank and likely CIA front whose purpose is to funnel money to North Korean defectors, venezuelan opposition figures like herself, the Ukrainian military, the anti-communist Cuban opposition, the anti-lula brazilian opposition, and probably a lot more ultra-right groups.