• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    you mean the proto-fascist opposition?

    yeah nobel prizes are bullshit aren’t they? now that i remember it, fucking obama got one.

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    16 hours ago

    Greta is still arrested in Israel or has she been released? She put her life to deliver food to people dying from genocide TWICE … and instead they give it to someone who was legitimizing and supporting American invasion of their own country. Just like when Saddam fell and the US installed all their corrupt Iraqi cronies who labbied the US to take him down. What a disgracful joke

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      21 hours ago

      The US is planning a regime change in Venezuela. No doubt they would love to use the “we bring Democracy by installing a Nobel peace prize winner” angle.

      The USA decided where this prize went.

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        20 hours ago

        I’m sure Norwegian oil and mining companies already causing environmental damage and poisoning communities in the Amazon had a few things to say as well.

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        9 hours ago

        Henry Kissinger is responsible for war crimes in Cambodia during the Vietnam war whose effects we’re still dealing w today; an institution that celebrates this legacy should not be well regarded nor respected.

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    The prize should’ve gone to the Freedom Flotilla, for actually helping humanity. Only through free socialism can peace be achieved!

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    24 hours ago

    Greta Thumberg was the one who deserved it imo but I can see the point of giving the prize to Mrs.Machado

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      21 hours ago

      I can’t. She’s a puppet for Washington. An heiress of the Venezuelan oligarchic elite whose only intention is to destabilize the government so she and her cronies can sell off Venezuela’s natural resources, notably oil, while cutting public services and pocketing the cash for themselves.

      This is literally just “Maduro bad, opposition good.” This is like putting a healthcare CEO’s granddaughter up in the US as we’ve only begun to recover, 25 years after removing Trump from power, and a powerful enemy state; let’s say Russia; sabotaging any recovery, pointing at the results of their sabotage as proof recovery has failed, and awarding Ms. Thompson numerous prizes and recognition for being hated by the public and rightfully prevented from holding power. And that’s to say nothing of whatever leader would actually be in power in that scenario.

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      18 hours ago

      She asked the US and Israel to invade and bomb Venezuela… I can see the point of giving her the prize, but it’s not in the name of peace.

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        I can’t see the point of giving her the prize, she’s asking the US Empire to overthrow a democratically elected government trying to establish a socialist system.

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      It’s an attempt to legitimize an attack on venezuela.
      The peace prize is unfortunately used to promote war.

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      23 hours ago

      Yep, same reason they gave it to Kissinger and other war criminals, the “Peace Prize” is whatever benefits western imperialism the most, generally.