• Bigfishbest@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Norwegian here. I can still hear the gasping from the laughter of the nobel committee in Oslo. And I’m on vacation abroad.

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      7 days ago

      Is it still a respected thing? I was under the impression it’s not Obama didn’t do anything except be elected and he was nominated. Can’t remember if he won it though but that seems like pretty weak criteria to be nominated.

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        Obama did win, and it was for his commitments to green energy and climate change. It’s widely considered bad to award people before they follow through to the end, especially for the nobel committee. I think they were trying to use it as further motivation to keep those commitments, but if anything it’s usually the opposite… at least when they give them to sociopath politicians. Could definitely be worse than Obama though.

        Edit: Reading more on it, it looks like it was also for nuclear non-proliferation. I guess both are pretty valid awards for Obama, even if he could have done far more, especially in his first two years.

      • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Kissinger won after setting a bunch of infants on fire. Obama winning for nothing wasn’t the worst by a long shot.

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    As as to be said somehow literally every time these headlines are published, nominations for any Nobel prize are kept secret and announcing that you’ve submitted a nomination if anything makes them less likely to be accepted as it harms the nomination by harming the image of the nominator. Anyone can say they’ve nominated anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize and they can’t be proven or disproven for 50 years.

    Oh and “Pakistan” can’t nominate anyone for a Nobel Prize. All you need to be a nominator for the Nobel Peace Prize is to be an elected official or a university professor, but you do have to be a person. The likely of a headline not bothering to distinguish between a person and their 250 million people nation seems to increase linearly with distance east from the Greenwich meridian.

    https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/questions-and-answers-about-the-nomination-process-for-a-nobel-peace-prize/

    Please remember this when that Norwegian ‘scientist’ nominations Trump or Elon or whoever in October like he does every year.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    7 days ago

    Trump helped secure Pakistan-India ceasefire last month, preventing a broader conflict between the two nuclear

    No he didnt, India has already said it was talks between India and Pakistan and Trump had zero to do with it.

  • Sal@lemmy.world
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    I sincerely hope once this fucker keels over we never have to hear from him again.

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        7 days ago

        Yes… the vice president Vance. That’s how it works. (Not that I want that either) the whole R party is a shit show, imho

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    Pakistan is playing some 5-D chess, here. Butter up the raging narcissist by flattering his ego, in the hopes that he backs down on Iran or risks losing his Nobel prize nomination.

    Smart. He actually might fall for it.

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      7 days ago

      Totally, this is how you play Trump if you don’t have a handwritten letter from your king

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      7 days ago

      Foreign countries know exactly what they’re doing this time around when it comes to manipulating Trump. I think last time they were surprised just how easy and stupid it was and now Saudia Arabia is just like “yeah throw some McDonald’s paint on a trailer and give him a happy meal, he’ll sign whatever we want”.

      The dude is a very very stupid child.

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    “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” -Trump, May 2023

    When a leader in any capacity promises something, you expect them to deliver.