• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    I literally doubled over laughing when they gave Machado the Peace Prize. What a fucking joke.

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      They gave Kissinger a peace prize so it was already a joke tbh. I would take it as a slight to receive one.

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        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.

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          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.

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            Oh sure. Hillary and Sarkozy suckered him into it. But that’s half the problem with Obama. Whether its Larry Summers or Joe Biden or Rick Warren or Elon Musk, there’s always some rich white asshole by his side, dangling a million dollar speaking tour over his head and leading him like a rented mule.

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      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

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    The “Peace Prize” winner has been trying to violently overthrow the Venezuelan government since the Bush Era failed coup in 2002.

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      I feel like at least half of the peace prizes have been given to pro-western / color revolution “dissidents” since the 60s

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        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.

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      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.