• Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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      It’s essentially a meaningless gesture anymore. I know ill get hate for this but they gave one to Obama and well in my opinion he hadn’t done anything to deserve such a "prestigious " honor other than being the first black president. Meaningless

      It should be reserved for intellectuals, artists, scientists etc. The only world leader that deserves an honor such as this would be one that ends hunger or homelessness

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    I love the idea of giving Obama a second Nobel Peace prize, just to piss Trump off.

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    Given that they gave it to Kissinger in the 70s, and then gave it to Obama before he actually did anything just for not being George W. Bush, the precedent would be that Nobels may be dispensed wherever politically expedient.

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      Kissinger is easily the worst example to give the Peace Prize to. I think Anthony Bourdain wrote about Laos( correct me if I am wrong about the country) that you will wish to beat Kissinger with your bare hands after you have visited the place and see what he had done.

      Satire died the day Kissinger was awarded the Peace Prize. Someone said famously as well. Even if Trump gets it, I will still argue that Kissinger remains the gold standard for being bad.

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      TBF not being George Bush is very peaceful, in comparison.

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          That’s one isolated metric. This is probably better than sending an army.

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            It’s a dumb metric as well, seeing as warfare evolves and modern drones were mostly untested before Bush 2.0.

            Bush did the beta testing, it worked. Obama continued their use. It’s like saying more people used iPhones in 2015 than in 2008.

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            How is that better. You do realize this is very sophisticated bombing. Would you rather have a guy run into your house or the house of your family or some super sonic mach 3 drone? What kind of contest is that anyway.

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              I’d rather have neither. I’m just saying some isolated metric doesn’t give the full picture.

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                11 hours ago

                That’s one isolated metric. This is probably better than sending an army.

                Sounds like you were saying getting drone striked is probably better, but English is not my native language so you are probably right

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                  If I had a gun to my head and was forced to choose whether a ground/army invasion is better than the drone strike, I would choose the latter.

                  However, I’d prefer neither happen.

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              Genuinely surprised seeing the Obama love here.

              I guess the past decade has really made people forget the actually bad things he did.

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                He succeeded in what he set out to do: give a nice face to American imperialism.

                And I admit, Obama had charisma and was a proper statesman, in stark contrast to what came before and after. But most policies, with single exceptions like Medicaid, were standard neoliberal bullshit. And he didn’t stop the machine from going to where it is now, which is his biggest failure in my opinion.

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    Efforts? The peace prize is a participation trophy now? I thought they hated that shit lol. Fucking loser hypocrites.