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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

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522 points pykello | 2 comments | 10 Oct 25 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kmijyiyxfbklao ◴[10 Oct 25 09:29 UTC] No.45536880[source]▶
That's interesting. I think the last Venezuelan election showed there are limits to what you can accomplish with peace.
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davedx ◴[10 Oct 25 09:32 UTC] No.45536902[source]▶
Of course there are limits to everything, but conversely look at what people like Gandhi achieved
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1. XorNot ◴[10 Oct 25 10:31 UTC] No.45537256[source]▶
I've become increasingly uncomfortable with these sorts of casual throwabouts of extremely complex and unique geopolitical situations though. Gandhi existed in a particular moment and context - take the same man and put him up against a different regime, and you would not get the same outcome.

It's like how people talk up peaceful protest by referencing Martin Luther King. He was a major centralizing figure for civil rights, but he did not exist in a vacuum of context either.

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2. Cyph0n ◴[10 Oct 25 12:51 UTC] No.45538422[source]▶
Precisely. Liberation movements have various tools at their disposal. But using the same tool in a different context does not guarantee a similar outcome.

On Gandhi in particular, many do not realize that there were parallel movements inside India that did resort to violence. So the context is not as simple as it may seem.