• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
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    Barack Obama, the first Nobel Peace Prize recipient to instate global mass surveillance and bombard 6 countries.

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    Obama did not deserve that one. Henry fucking Kissinger got one. The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke at best, and a bastardization of the idea mixed with horrific propaganda at worst.

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      If I remember correctly Obama got it like a couple of weeks into his presidency before having done anything. While continuing a war. So yeah it’s meaningless.

      To give a peace price to any president is laughable

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        He essentially got it for not being Bush.

        Not saying Donnie deserves it but we need to stop pretending that Obama getting the prize is some sort of achievement.

        Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if the next elected Democrat president got it either.

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      I think the problem is in the value you’re attributing to a reward that is the function of a terrible dead rich guys will.

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      He absolutely didn’t deserve it, but since he got it, the least we can do, is to make jokes with it

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    …the prize is named after a man who caused more destruction than creation, figure this shit out, the whole politic thing is a joke…

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    Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.

    He’s certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.

    You may not agree that this was condescending, but it’s hard to argue that Obama’s legacy is of the peacemaker domestically or internationally.

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      Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.

      This, of all the things to be critrical of, isnt it (the drone part).

      Less invasive, less troops on the ground, more precise strikes than traditional bombings. Things don’t exisr in a vacuums. Drones were a W.

      He’s certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.

      This hints something about you that you think it was him being black and not him not being bush after bush, and being charming.

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    This would be more humorous if Obama hadn’t made the same joke about Trump being president at the White House Press Corps dinner in 2011.

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      Yeah that shit annoyed the fuck out of me when he said it. I knew in that moment that Trump was going to get all the power he was seeking.