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Donald Trump has said it would be “an honor” take Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize if she offered it to him, as he prepares to meet the exiled politician next week.

Machado has been in hiding due to persistent threats on her life, emerging only briefly in Oslo after a three-day mission in which she was smuggled out of the country with the help of the U.S. military for the Nobel ceremony.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Using a nations military to declare a war in order to physically steal a nobel prize is really something.

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

Did...did tRump really start a war to steal a peace prize? Holy shit I hate it here!

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[–] Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first Nobel peace prize that was fairly conquered in war

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

To the MAGAt victor goes the spoils of Peace.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ivan Gorchev, sailor on the freight ship ‘Rangoon’, was not yet twenty-one when he won the Nobel Prize in physics. To win a scientific award at such a romantically young age is unprecedented, though some people might consider the means by which it was achieved a flaw. For Ivan Gorchev won the Nobel Prize in physics in a card game, called macao, from a Professor Bertinus, on whom the honour had been bestowed in Stockholm by the King of Sweden a few days earlier. But those who are always finding fault don’t like to face facts, and the fact of the matter is that Ivan Gorchev did win the Nobel Prize at the age of twenty-one.

Opening lines from the novel “The Fourteen-Carat Roadster” by Jenő Rejtő (P. Howard)

[–] Bademantel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it a good read? I'm intrigued.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

From what I remember, it is. I read it very long ago as a kid, and I found it quite funny. Sort of a parody of popular adventure novels at that time (1930s), making fun of the usual tropes. Lot of things inspired by the writer’s own extensive travels in Western Europe and North Africa. It’s probably avaiable for pennies or free now.

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So that's what's truly behind the invasion. Oil is just a cover. He just wants that Nobel price.

Honestly, seeing how crooked, petty and deranged he is, I wouldn't be surprised anymore if this would actually be true.

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago

It matches his malignant narcissism.

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Read up on Machado. She's a real capitalist enabling cunt. She probably had a role to play in all that's happening.

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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

What a degenerate.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whelp Nobel Peace Committee what do you have to say about giving the award to a boot licker

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Henry fucking Kissinger was awarded an Nobel. Obama too, despite having just acceded to the presidency and done nothing yet (he would go on and become one of the most prolific drone striker ever). The "peace" Nobel prize is now and always has been a bad taste joke.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So the Orange Jackass wants to mug her?

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bribe. He is begging for a bribe.

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

He wants to brag that he's better than 'Obamna.'

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not how prizes work though...

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

This is some Michael Scott move

[–] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's fair to say that if that happens, the whole Nobel Peace Prize thing will become worthless.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It already was when they gave it to Obama while he was drone striking civilians.

I mean, any US president winning it would invalidate it.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago

It wasn't giving it to Kissinger for his work on the Vietnam war that did it for you?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago

Hell, they gave it to Henry fucking Kissinger.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

It became worthless in 1973 when they awarded it to Henry Kissinger

Kissinger was a war mongering piece of shit. Untold number of people died horribly violent deaths because of him. Small pox is more deserving of a peace prize than Kissinger, because at least it kills everyone equally. Kissinger targeted the poorest and most vulnerable

I look forward to someday pissing on his grave

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well the fact that they gave her one of the first place means it's kind of worthless, hell they gave one to Kissinger. It's always been worthless.

Giving up a peace prize to end a war sounds eligability for a new peace prize.

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

that's not how it works, lol.. he wants a nobel peace prize with the name Machado on it?

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, I hope she's fucking with him.....

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Why would she be? She's a huge fan of Trump.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Sounds like a threat to me...
Imagine what could happen if she wouldn't give it to him

I see some Trumpie is going to a pull a Putiny.

She better hand it over, or she's gonnaa get peace'd right into prison.

[–] X@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

Conservatives:

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does this timeline just keep on getting stupider and stupider like this?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

It's being written by AI

[–] Shamber@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

How's did the horrible person even win this? What a fucken joke

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