Donald Trump has said it would be “an honor” take Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize if she offered it to him, as he prepares to meet the exiled politician next week.

Machado has been in hiding due to persistent threats on her life, emerging only briefly in Oslo after a three-day mission in which she was smuggled out of the country with the help of the U.S. military for the Nobel ceremony.

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    17 hours ago

    pretty sure the nobel prize is a cover for the oil/subjugation, actually I’m convinced his entire personality is a cover really

    it gets people talking and stops them from worrying about the things that actually move money and resources in this world

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      17 hours ago

      I’ve talked to people who voted for Trump. I asked why they voted for him. Their answer: “I don’t agree with him on any level, but he talks in a way I can understand and other politicians I agree with more I don’t understand, so I just voted for him.”

      Honestly, what the actual fuck.

      Facts and logic are of the past somehow. The dystopian world portrayed in the movie Idiocracy became a reality, although that movie was way too optimistic: they listed to the smart person.

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        16 hours ago

        that’s really interesting and sad, I wonder how much of that is them actually not being able to understand vs them being convinced they can’t understand

        kinda feels like the worst type of a feedback loop where people just start rejecting external information

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          15 hours ago

          Politics are getting more extreme. Screaming people, far against each other, no middle area, etc. Many just don’t have the energy to follow all that bullshit. Going back and forth. They just want something clear instead of difficult choices. It drains me too, but I can’t vote on something I do not support and I need to know which politicians are full of shit and spread fake news.