• fizzle@quokk.au
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      3 days ago

      It’s just unfathomable to me that she thought it was a good idea to give it to him.

      She won it for her work in promoting democracy, then she uses it to bribe someone to help her subvert democracy.

      I cant help but feel like the Nobel committee really chose the wrong person.

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        She’s a member of the corrupt kleptocracy that Chavez kicked out. The fact that Maduro was a shit leader doesn’t mean that the faction that had been driven out of power was any better.

        I cant help but feel like the Nobel committee really chose the wrong person.

        They really should shut that shitshow down. It’s doing more harm than good.

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        2 days ago

        If a “democracy” laureate can turn the Nobel medal into a gift to Donald Trump to secure leverage, it exposes the prize as elite propaganda, not a meaningful moral measure. And it reveals Machado’s “pro-democracy” image as branding for regime-change patronage, where legitimacy comes from foreign powerbrokers rather than Venezuelan popular sovereignty.

        She was never pro democracy, look into her past and support for American coups. She’s a right wing fascist, like the lot of them.

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        3 days ago

        She’s trying to buy her country back with a hunk of metal. It’s understandable.

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        She won it by grifting. Just because someone is against an oppressive regime doesnt make them good nor democratic. The same with Navalny or for a less recent example Stauffenberg.