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[–] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Daily reminder that the Nobel Prize was (still is) purely a marketing move to scrub the reputation of the Merchant of Death, Alfred Nobel. Because he got butthurt that the newspapers had the audacity to shed light on the truth about his horrible legacy.

The first Nobel Peace Prize went to the woman he had a crush on and never got over even decades after she dumped his explosive peddling ass.

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

    She also donated the award to Trump and asked him to invade to overthrow the democratically elected socialist leadership.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    That's not great. But. However. Those were not democratic elections in Venezuela. That was a farce.

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

    Maduro won the election, and the US tried to manufacture consent to overturn it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't think even 5% of Venezuela's economic issues derive from Maduro's government. Not that I like him particularly. We severely underestimate -or pretty much ignore- the actual implications of being subjected to the sanctions and isolation Venezuela has been. And the huge social fracture derived primarily from the middle to upper class being annoyed at having to redistribute wealth for decades ain't helping. I know this first-hand and the insolidarity, entitlement and neoliberal kool-aid drinking from that part of Venezuelan society is a fucking bleak reality.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, the public knows about those issues because Maduro talks about them all the time. Why wouldn't they vote for him if they know it?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    they should've given the piss prize to satanyahu

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    María Cochina Machado

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