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[–] 182 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Well, he's considered a fucking joke everywhere outside of his cult

One that ceased to be funny a very long time ago

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  • [–] 123 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    He is truly removed from reality if he thinks he deserves the Nobel peace prize.

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don’t think deserving things (or not) is really a relevant consideration for people like that. They just have things that they want for whatever reason and the power (or not) to have them

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Remember how Putin stole a Super Bowl ring from Bob Kraft? He just asked to look at it then walked out of the room with it. I bet Trump would do exactly the same thing with a Nobel medal if he had the chance.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trump did nearly the same thing with some young injured military guy's Purple Heart. Trump told him much he admired it, obviously fishing, so the guy offered it to Trump, probably never imagining that Trump would actually take it.

    Instead, Trump said "I've always wanted one of these!" And kept it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He’s basically a grown up Varuka Salt

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The weird prototype gum ended in a orange Creamsicle instead of a blueberry pie, apparently.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Overgrown toddler mentality. He doesn't use logic, doesn't consider other people, fairness, accomplishments, optics, etc. He just wants it, hasn't been told 'no' enough, and has Big Feelings about it...

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  • [+] 80 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It will be (and already is) much, much worse than just an embarrassment.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Probably not if there is another civil war or the nation balkanizes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That civil war is a few years late.
    Not going to happen, everybody's glued to TVs and social media, too bothersome to get out of the couch and do something.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah. I listened to an episode of ologies about this.

    Age is a big part of it. Like no one over 30 wants to risk everything for something they believe in.

    The average age is older than it was in the civil war era.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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    She, of course, never had a chance. The prize was rigged from the start because of Norway’s notorious antisemitism

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is that why over 20% of all recipients of a Nobel prize have at least one Jewish parent?

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    I'm laughing that the committee awarded the prize to a Venezuelan. Trump is going to be raging all day - all caps screeching about how he deserved to win, how Maria Machado is a loser, about how many conflicts he resolved etc. His government is going to be striking out against Venezuela (despite the winner being an opponent of the regime), Norway and the Nobel Prize organization. Fox will be on a rage fest too and all his proxies too. I guarantee that we'll see esteemed members of Nobel getting detained at US borders, being deported etc because Trump is a sore loser little bitch.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh Trump is gonna be a little mean bitch girl about this for sure.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why am I seeing so many comments with the word removed? Is there some filter in this instance tagging very specific words?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Your instance is heavily censored, both in terms of that filter, and also your instance admins who are very, very ban-happy towards people who don't share the same views they do. I recommend switching to a less controlling instance if that sounds like a problem to you.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I hadn't heard that they gave it to someone else until I read your post.

    That's hilarious. Any day that Trump is unhappy is a good day. I love to see unhappy billionaires because they always thought their money would make them happy, and it doesn't. Their solution is that they'll finally be happy if they have even more.

    Now we're going to have to hear him cry about it for the next year, like the world-class sore loser that he is. He'll probably try to get his followers to storm the Nobel HQ.

    The bright side is that maybe he'll go around settling wars and conflicts around the world. Maybe we can steer his naked ambition to do some good.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    because Trump is a sore loser little bitch.

    I think it's worse than that. His cult members are sore for him. Trump probably won't flag everyone he wants detained, but his disciples will do it for him to please daddy.

    Not that I think Trump's not petty enough, I think he's not capable enough.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Peace prize for Trump? The guy who started a war? With his own citizens?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    He also thinks he's smart, attractive, beloved by all Americans, and good at golf. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and just thinks that's the way it's supposed to be. It's never occurred to him that he might not deserve anything he wants, from companies to political victories to sexual conquests to accolades.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He's peacefully murdering people in international waters.

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    They're all saying it. Every time I see somebody they're saying the same thing. They say mister trump you're the most peaceful guy I know. I heard somebody say that once and now they're all saying it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They all come up to me and stop and they say sir, I'm sorry to hear you lost the prize to a very nasty person. A real nasty person. I hear she didn't even win in her own country you know, and I shake my head and I say it's too bad, the state of things. A big shame. You know who else was big? Palmer. Let me tell you about palmer ...

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe he should send the National Guard to Norway to help protect the prize.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    this can be dealt with

    After the Nazi invasion of Denmark this placed them in danger; it was illegal at the time to send gold out of Germany, and were it discovered that Laue and Franck had done so, they could have faced prosecution. To prevent this, de Hevesy concealed the medals by dissolving them in aqua regia and placing the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Hevesy#World_War_II_and_beyond

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It would be very spicy to see Zelensky or Thunberg get it this year.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    i wish he was directly and unambiguously mocked a lot more

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thin skinned snowflake is literally trying to start wars WITH STATES because they told him and his fascists to fuck off...

    That child rapist deserves jail time, not a peace prize.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Obama still living in his head rent free

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    And Obama's drone strikes live rent free in the minds of an entire generation of people in the middle east. Still weird as fuck that he got a peace prize, but it would be much weirder if Trump received one.

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    Obama got the Peace Prize for creating hope after dubya ... and partly in order to "bind" him to commuting to peace.

    That was not one of the better selections.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Haha. Wouldn't it be awesome if the next POTUS after Drumpus, was awarded a Peace Prize LOL ? It would be the only reason to wish Mushroom Dick a slightly longer life, so that he can enjoy that moment too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I was wondering about that as well so I looked into the dates. Apparently Obama got the award in October 9, 2009, and some of the first controversial drone strikes under his administration were in March and April of 2009. Dude came out the gate drone striking and the Nobel Committee just ignored it.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    "But amid the naked ambition behind Trump’s push for peace in Gaza, even those who have been highly critical of the war have hailed the deal as a major achievement."

    It seems like they are celebrating too early. Getting the hostages back doesn't end the war. Once the hostages are returned, they'll go right back to genocide.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why not offer a participation trophy called the ‚Noble Piece Prize‘? At his reading level he’ll not notice any difference and no one is going to tell him.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I like the idea but I must say it's going to be hard to hold our noses and proclaim anything he does to be "noble" even for the sake of the joke.

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    Its probably out of character for them, but the Nobel Commitee should make an announcement of things they consider disqualifiers for the prize to see if they can push him into relenting on his fascism.

    You know, "we will not consider any leader as a candidate who imposes or utilises martial law to rule their country. We will not consider any candidate who orders international killings of civilians.
    We will not consider any candidate that ignores their own countries constitutional protections when it comes to foreign nationals living in its territories, etc.

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    He's deploying the military against his own people for protesting his crimes against humanity....

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He's actually done a phenomenal job of redefining the limits of USA politics. I mean, he's completely destroying our country, and at a rate that even I have to acknowledge is kind of impressive, despite being horrifying.

    Sadly, I don't think they give out the Nobel for that. But maybe we can get him one of those trophies little kids get for playing sports.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Best case scenario for this worse case reality.

    Not actually trying to sum it all up in a quick phrase. This here is just a late night kinda one of those “Yo, that sounds right” kind of thingy things. If you wanna bust my ball sac, let’s talk sports. I hope we are all on the same side politically speaking. If not politically on the same page then your mother is a Munt.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah, like they're going to give the Peace Prize to the guy that renamed the Department of Defense, the Department of WAR. Hard to imagine a worse mixed message.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    TBF it does what it says on the tin. American hasn't fought a defensive war in decades, arguably since WWII.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Easier to argue that even WWII wasn't a defensive war (not that I think we should have stayed out of it, just that everything since then has been for sure us causing problems).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Korea. US troops were totally caught with their pants down and nearly got routed.

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  • Yeah, IIRC I wouldn't say that was a war of defense but it was certainly defense of an ally. Yeah the US got blindsided, then MacArthur got it into his head that he could unite Korea and loads of American and allied soldiers died. From what I've read, it was a bad one. I'd highly recommend the coldest winter by David Halberstam for ppl who want to learn about this monumental fuck up.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Major media and social media seem to promote the winner - Maria Corina Machado - despite that she is a Trump fan, and Israel supporter. Also in Mastodon she is trending.

    Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado once described Trump as a ‘visionary.’ She just won his coveted Nobel Peace Prize

    Nobel Peace Prize winner Mara Corina Machado supports Israel’s war and Benjamin Netanyahu? Here are the facts

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