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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

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522 points pykello | 1 comments | 10 Oct 25 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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s-a-p ◴[10 Oct 25 09:11 UTC] No.45536751[source]▶
I know a big baby that isn't going to be happy about this one :)
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jansan ◴[10 Oct 25 09:21 UTC] No.45536824[source]▶
That is nonsense. Even if the Gaza deal was worthy a Nobel Peace Prize, nobody, including Trump, would expect to be honored two days after the deal.
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eru ◴[10 Oct 25 09:34 UTC] No.45536916[source]▶
They should really have given him one before the deal. I mean, Obama got one just for showing up.

(To be clear, I don't think Trump should get one; and Obama's win was really weird. But, hey, if Kissinger can get one..)

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anilakar ◴[10 Oct 25 09:56 UTC] No.45537052{3}[source]▶
When you fuck up world peace so badly your successor gets the prize for doing nothing...
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rkomorn ◴[10 Oct 25 10:20 UTC] No.45537194{4}[source]▶
Not even "for doing nothing", more like "before doing anything". He wasn't even 10 months into his presidency.

If there's one job in the world where I'd wait until someone's well out of office before judging their impact on peace, it's the US presidency.

I'm in a circle of people who lean pretty damn far left and even at the time, the only reactions I heard were "huh, what?"

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1. netsharc ◴[10 Oct 25 11:02 UTC] No.45537444{5}[source]▶
Even Obama said basically those words when he got a call from his staff at 6AM announcing that he had won, and he said in the press conference that he didn't feel he deserved it (I looked this up in his 2020 book Promised Land).

Meanwhile for Trump... I'm pretty certain he wants it because a clever, charismatic, eloquent and beloved Black man got it...