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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

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522 points pykello | 5 comments | 10 Oct 25 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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unsupp0rted ◴[10 Oct 25 09:21 UTC] No.45536823[source]▶
Is the Nobel Peace Prize given to people who accomplished a lot as individuals (like Maria Corina Machado) or people who accomplished a lot at scale without doing much beyond a few phone calls and document-signings, like Trump?

Because a few phone calls and document-signings can bring about many orders of magnitude more "peace units" in the world, if backed by the world's largest economy and the world's most effective military at projecting power.

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9dev ◴[10 Oct 25 09:38 UTC] No.45536938[source]▶
The Nobel peace prize cannot be given to someone who rebrands the ministry of defence to the ministry of war and proclaims on a stage that he hates his enemies. These things are mutually exclusive.
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1. eru ◴[10 Oct 25 09:40 UTC] No.45536951[source]▶
Why? Do they have rules against that?
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2. 9dev ◴[10 Oct 25 09:55 UTC] No.45537042[source]▶
There doesn't need to be. Basic dignity and logical thinking tell you that an award for honest efforts to facilitate peace awarded to MLK and Mother Teresa cannot be awarded to someone like Donald Trump. And you see that obviously the Nobel committee shares this opinion, which is why he luckily did not receive it.
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3. ReptileMan ◴[10 Oct 25 10:28 UTC] No.45537242[source]▶
Have you checked some of the winners? Arafat is there and so are Kissinger - the napalm sticks on kids guy and Obama - the guy that shot hospitals and weddings in Afghanistan. Trump will fit right in.
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4. eru ◴[10 Oct 25 10:41 UTC] No.45537306{3}[source]▶
To be fair, when Obama got the prize, he hadn't done any of that, yet, because he got it right away before he did anything.
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5. 9dev ◴[10 Oct 25 18:49 UTC] No.45542384{4}[source]▶
If I remember correctly, even the man himself later admitted to being thoroughly confused as to why he would get it.