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[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So... about that Peace Prize...

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 3 days ago

Like the committee didn't see this coming. The guy changed the name from the Dept of DEFENSE, to the Dept of WAR. You don't think the Nobel Committee doesn't understand what that signals? They tend to be pretty smart people, but dummies like MAGA don't recognize intelligence. It's an entirely foreign concept to them. So he thought he was getting something over on them, getting the Peace Prize, then attacking everybody, so he could hide behind his Peace Prize, saying it's THEIR fault, I didn't start it, I have a Peace Prize. And his idiot followers would actually parrot that, just like they are parroting that Iran started this war 47 years ago.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana

The Pax Romana (Latin for 'Roman peace') is a roughly 200-year-long period of ancient Rome that is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Fighting for Peace is like fucking for Virginity." - George Carlin

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which is a really stupid thing to say. Should e.g. Ukraine not fight for peace? Should Britain not have fought for peace in WW2?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

defense, that's not what the US is doing.

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Carlin's quote said nothing about "defense".

And in any case, e.g. NATO's prevention of the genocide was not "defense". Was that also like "fucking for Virginity”? I have met some people from Kosovo, and they certainly do not think so, naming their children after Bill Clinton and all... No, Carlin is an idiot here.

[–] markko@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If Carlin had to be as specific as you'd like that quote to be then it wouldn't be much of a joke.

It's not hard to understand what he was saying.

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk -1 points 2 days ago

I actually don't understand what Carlin is saying, then. "The wars I don't like are bad"?

An overbroad and often false generalization is not a good joke. So yes, it isn't much of a joke.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

I mean, Rome had peace. War elsewhere isn't really an issue for the elites that do the writing of history...