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      If ever there was a time to try and grift the US out of a few trillion, now is the time. You can’t blame her for taking advantage of the greatest opportunity for scammers in a century.

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    The “Peace Prize” winner has been trying to violently overthrow the Venezuelan government since the Bush Era failed coup in 2002.

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    I literally doubled over laughing when they gave Machado the Peace Prize. What a fucking joke.

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      They gave Kissinger a peace prize so it was already a joke tbh. I would take it as a slight to receive one.

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        Kissinger won in '73, right after the bombing of Cambodia. Obama in '09 as he was gassing up the jets to level Libya and butcher Afghans for another eight years. Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzakh Rabin - three avowed terrorists - all got the prize in 1994 shortly before they fell back into their low-grade civil war. Kofi Annan and the UN won in 2001, seven years into running the phenomenally corrupt “Oil for Food” program used to loot Iraq.

        It’s a bad award for bad people.

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      I’m glad Ben Norton included the bit about Machado’s superrich cousin going to Miami on private jet shopping trips & making fun of how poor Americans were, it was really illustrative of what the comprador elite are like since they’re the result of much sharper inequality. Mostly just really funny though

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      Also usually the ones pushing some kind of antisemitic narrative ala “global elites controlling the country”.

      Right wing populist patriotism is just a total joke invented to exploit the poor and stupid…

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      She also publicly thanked the founders of the Atlas network, a US right wing think tank and likely CIA front whose purpose is to funnel money to North Korean defectors, venezuelan opposition figures like herself, the Ukrainian military, the anti-communist Cuban opposition, the anti-lula brazilian opposition, and probably a lot more ultra-right groups.

  • I feel like the CIA forced her getting the peace prize for the upcoming war, but she’s really fucking bad at manufacturing consent.

    The elites can’t see that because she says everything they want but I think this kinda shit doesn’t go well with literally everyone else

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      Right wing white oppo leader talking about selling out your country to imperialists IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE is peak tone deafness

      God bless Maduro honestly I would throw this hag in the pit

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      I feel like at least half of the peace prizes have been given to pro-western / color revolution “dissidents” since the 60s

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          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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            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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              By “generally legitimate” I just mean that they’re awarded to scientists for real things, as opposed to, like, giving the medical prize to RFK Jr. It’s still a shit institution.

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              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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          The peace prize yes. They’ve made really questionable choices from Kissinger to Obama (Who really did win because Not Bush). No one should take it seriously.

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        That’s a very risky statement. wałęsa is the personification of the worst stereotypes of lumpenproletariat, he would DID sold entire nation under the tyranny of the exact same capitalism she is doing. If that would entail violent forever war at the hand of USA, why not, in a blink.