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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

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516 points pykello | 2 comments | 10 Oct 25 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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madacol ◴[10 Oct 25 11:35 UTC] No.45537701[source]▶
Even if Venezuela goes to hell even deeper, she still deserves the prize for what she has already done!

The way she, and her team, managed to convince venezuelans that the election mattered, and to prepare to gather the evidence of the elections under constant threats from the government, that we all knew they were going to steal, and do it entirely peacefully, was an extremely impressive achievement on its own.

What an impressive act of coordination from MCM

:standing-ovation:

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yostrovs[dead post] ◴[10 Oct 25 12:09 UTC] No.45538013[source]▶
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dtech ◴[10 Oct 25 13:47 UTC] No.45538998[source]▶
I would rather give the "Fire Safety" prize to the people who installed sprinklers and smoke alarms than to firefighters
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1. ineedasername ◴[10 Oct 25 14:59 UTC] No.45539830{3}[source]▶
And what does that look like in this context, eligible countries that haven’t been at war in a while get together at pat each other on the back?
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2. strix_varius ◴[10 Oct 25 15:45 UTC] No.45540272[source]▶
That misses the analogy.

Such countries already have not only smoke alarms but also building codes and layers of safety systems.

The analogy matches a person who goes to a place with high fire risk and no safety systems in place and through tireless effort introduces common sense measures to protect people.