• Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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          You wouldn’t be too wrong. Since 1990 from my reckoning they’ve given the peace prize to

          • 2 internationally recognised genocidaires (Aung San Suu Kyi [Well, what she did was recognised as a genocide by basically every NGO, but somehow she is never blamed], Abiy Ahmed)
          • 5 known war criminals (Obama, Yitzhak Rabin [Although he remains the least bad Israeli prime minister, a praise somewhat akin to “the nicest nazi”, something over which he was murdered], Shimon Peres, Carter and Abiy Ahmed)
          • 1 guy who covered up war crimes (Juan Manuel Santos)
          • 1 Person who was mentioned in the panama papers (Juan Manuel Santos again)
          • 1 Gorbachev
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      Kissinger writes an article with the same headline, but the text is just about how Machado hasn’t killed enough kids to earn the prize.

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      Tom Lehrer famously declared that satire died the day Kissinger got the nobel peace prize. (He also stopped doing satire)

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    Yep hell if you wanted a venezuelian opposition figures she only stands out by how much she campaigns the western line and kowtows to them.