Daily reminder that the Nobel Prize was (still is) purely a marketing move to scrub the reputation of the Merchant of Death, Alfred Nobel. Because he got butthurt that the newspapers had the audacity to shed light on the truth about his horrible legacy.

The first Nobel Peace Prize went to the woman he had a crush on and never got over even decades after she dumped his explosive peddling ass.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She also donated the award to Trump and asked him to invade to overthrow the democratically elected socialist leadership.

[+] logi@piefed.world -7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not great. But. However. Those were not democratic elections in Venezuela. That was a farce.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Maduro won the election, and the US tried to manufacture consent to overturn it.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Given the state of Venezuela's economy I find is highly implausible that Maduro could've actually won. This isn't to support invasion or Machado, just realistically speaking there's no way the voters agreed to more Maduro.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Why not? He's fairly popular.

[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think even 5% of Venezuela's economic issues derive from Maduro's government. Not that I like him particularly. We severely underestimate -or pretty much ignore- the actual implications of being subjected to the sanctions and isolation Venezuela has been. And the huge social fracture derived primarily from the middle to upper class being annoyed at having to redistribute wealth for decades ain't helping. I know this first-hand and the insolidarity, entitlement and neoliberal kool-aid drinking from that part of Venezuelan society is a fucking bleak reality.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not saying Maduro is to blame, but regardless when people feel less well-off it'd take a miracle (or fraud) to win an election.

[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, the public knows about those issues because Maduro talks about them all the time. Why wouldn't they vote for him if they know it?

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

People don't vote based on words, they vote based on their subjective experience and vibes.

[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Which is heavily influenced by words (propaganda of any kind, media, etc). Moreso these days, where most people know nothing about how things work...

[–] aliteral@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno man, Maduro seems pretty openly anti-left to me. So much so he disavows parties that are left of him. It doesn't scream socialist...

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Can you give an example?

[–] Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

they should've given the piss prize to satanyahu

[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

María Cochina Machado