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When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, ‘Peace’ Has Lost Its Meaning (resumen-english.org)
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[–] 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Was gonna say, I think that ship sailed a while ago.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Between Kissinger, Obama and her I'm negatively polarized into thinking everyone who gets one is a terrible war criminal

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago*

    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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