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Donald Trump Given Nobel Peace Prize By Venezuela’s Opposition Leader — But Nobel Committee Says It Is Not Transferable

https://sh.itjust.works/post/53527357

Jan 16 at 3:10pmWeb
Show threadphaedrusJan 16

I swear I recently read that Machado was opposing dicktater. What the fuck happened? The fact she seems to be coddling him makes me question why she even got it in the first place.

edit1: you can’t write this stuff… she literally got the prize for, “her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” I guess she is like every other power tripping fuck that gets a whiff of money.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/machado/facts/

edit2: I can’t find any news on her opposing him, I must have hallucinated that. It seems this peace prize thing was to schmooze him into backing her, I guess.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5671488-trump-machado-venezuela-opposition-leader/

She actually looks like Heath Ledger’s Joker, who just blew up a hospital and wiped off the makeup

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"

NobelPrize.org
Show threadparaphrandJan 16
There’s no need to attack her appearance. Her actions describe her nature just fine.
Show threadlmmarsanoJan 17
Do you literally not remember all the times world leaders have lined up to award & praise Trump to try to get their way? That’s just sensible foreign relations by world leaders who understand the type of shallow, transactional idiot Trump is. Without insight about Machado, how does this look any different to you?
Gold crown, golf clubs and a jet: Tracking Trump’s gifts from foreign leaders this year

What to get the man who has everything, including his own Boeing 747 and a set of nuclear launch codes?

CNN
Show threadphaedrusJan 17

Are my edits not showing up or something? Someone else commented what I had already edited in.

I misremembered a story about Machado, then I linked an article that corrected me. I never said this looked different, just that you can’t make this shit up and compared her to literally everybody else.

Show threadlmmarsanoJan 17

I never said this looked different,

Your question

What the fuck happened?

pretty much did unless you’re assuming that peaceful pragmatism[^pragmatism] is incompatible with a peace award (in which case, that’s daft as hell).

[^pragmatism]: by trading meaningless trinkets to bid one’s time with a geopolitical threat (with a 4 year term) & minimize conflicts that you’re in no position to win & will hurt your people

Show threadphaedrusJan 17
Again, see my edits. My initial comment was based on something I remembered incorrectly, and then I corrected myself.
Show threadlmmarsanoJan 17
Your edits address nothing I wrote. That you think they should (when they really do the opposite) indicates poor reading comprehension.