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Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion of Venezuela's assets to US corporations (www.geopoliticaleconomy.report)
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[–] 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Also, wasn’t the Nobel Prize kind of just a western PR stunt?

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    The science ones are generally legitimate. The literature and peace prizes have been wholly co-opted by western interests. The economics prize isn’t even a real Nobel, it’s just a prize sponsored by the Swedish central bank and administered by the Nobel Institute, and it’s a pure PR tool for legitimizing neoliberalism.

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

    The science Nobel prizes are outrageously misogynist. In the last few years, they are finally giving it to actual female scientist because they can no longer suppress women researchers without facing a single criticism, unlike the past. Cecilia Payne, Chien-Shiung Wu, Vera Rubin got treated like shit.

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

    Right and even the guy it’s named after tho. Kind of a piece of shit.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Most things are named after pieces of shit. Being a piece of shit is the number one way to get something named after you. That's not to say the Nobels aren't a sham, but conceptually there are more offensive things than a prize that's supposed to go to someone who contributes to humanity. Impressive that the system so effectively coopted them to do more shitty things. Important lesson there.

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