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- oldpersonintx2 1y ago[dead]
- torlok 1y agoThis does look like the second best option, given his current agenda, though.
- geremiiah 1y agoCheck her Twitter. She supports Trump.
- catlikesshrimp 1y agoShe has to support anybody who doesn't side with Maduro. If Trump starts "admiring" or "falling in love with" or something new, she would backtrack.
- ErneX 1y agoSee I truly respect President Boric from Chile, it’s one of the few progressive leaders from the region that has been outspoken about the Maduro regime and calling it what it is: a dictatorship. Unlike other leaders of the region who could be doing way more. It’s pretty understandable for Mrs. Corina to take whatever support she gets internationally.
- pydry 1y agoIncluding from a certain genocidal regime in the middle east which she supports: https://x.com/VenteVenezuela/status/1286346531591852036 https://x.com/VenteVenezuela/status/1286346531591852036 Providing her with this award while Trump's naval battle groups stand ready to attack Venezuela isnt helping arrest the collapse of the west's moral authority.
- ErneX 1y agoProbably not, but it also sheds some light on left leaning democracies that are too soft with the Maduro regime just because they share some ideology.
- jayknight 1y agoLet's see what Trump has to say about her...
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoI'm guessing he will take credit for her getting the prize.
- rolandog 1y agoYeah, I'm wondering if the Nobel Peace prize has anything to do with peace for people, or for her neoliberalism stance of protection of the free market that would usher peace for the business interests of oil companies [0]. I must confess I am no Venezuelan political expert, and it always gives me pause whether the economic siege that has been laid against Venezuela with the sanctions is about democracy, or about access to unrestricted markets (a la United Fruit Company — now Chiquita — and Standard Fruit Company — now Dole plc). [0]: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKU-8MCO10P/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKU-8MCO10P/
- pjc50 1y agoThe problem in South America is that both versions are true. The outside exploitation pressures are extremely strong, so any vaguely socialist government succumbs to the temptation to squash the outside agitators .. and any local opposition who actually have a valid point or real anti-corruption objections. Running a moderate social democrat centrist country in that situation is not stable, instead you get pendulum swings from left to right and back again, with significant human cost along the way. (exception maybe Costa Rica?) To be clear, Venezuela is long past the "popular socialism" phase and decayed into the "strongman holding on" phase.
- kipchak 1y agoThere is also a substantial amount of mostly unexploited rare earth elements like Coltan.
- ludwik 1y agoThat’s like saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy supports Trump. Foreign politicians operate outside of U.S. domestic politics - they don’t get to choose other countries’ leaders. Their job is to use diplomacy to navigate international politics in whatever shape those politics happen to be in.
- philistine 1y agoExactly. People talk as if she’s voting for the guy.
- LightBug1 1y agoNot blanket support, only in relation to Venezuela. Which isn't hard. Even for the orangutan...
- LightBug1 1y agoFuck. I should have qualified the above with "Not necessarily blanket support". A little further research and she sounds like Mrs orangutan.
- kelvinjps10 1y agoIt's because he is the current president of the US and US support it's key for the liberation of Venezuela, she also supported Biden and Kamala Harris, have Kamala Harris won she would have "supported" her. And it's not like she supports Trump, she is not on favor of his policies but she knows his support it's necessary.
- ks2048 1y agoShe said her favorite politician was Thatcher, so seems like a right-wing liberal. She supports the sanctions against Venezuela. I wonder what her views are on US-backed military regime-change and blowing-up random Venezuelan boats.
- VerminOctopus1 1y agoShe has explicitly stated she is in favor of those acts of violence against her country.
- kelvinjps10 1y agoI'm Venezuelan and I don't see those acts as against my country, we hate our current government, at this point after 20 years of the same guys ruining our country we are desperate, and military intervention might be the only solution, because they hold all the power and weapons, and don't care that 80%+ of the population are against them. Although most of us hold the opinion that solving the problem by our own hands would be the best option, it seems like it might not be possible like what happened in 2014, and last year and many others. Military intervention might be the only option left that we have.
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- drstewart 1y agoYep, but why do we care what the socialist dictator Maduro thinks?
- Parae 1y agoI don't think they are talking about Maduro, but a big blond haired baby who likes burger and fascism.
- throw-the-towel 1y agoThis is a tangent, but this type of You-Know-Who speech is so irritating. If you want to say Trump just say it, don't dance around it like he's some kind of god who'll punish you if you say his name in vain.
- toofy 1y agopeople are getting in very real world trouble for saying negative things about certain people or their friends. i’m not sure if you’ve seen how many people have lost their jobs for saying truths about kurk or how many people are losing jobs, scholarships, visas, education etc for saying things about a certain regime, but it’s happening, for real. they’re actively pushing to force people to turn over their social media accounts for review. we can’t blame this poster for vagueposting here. i often pushback against vagueposting but in today’s climate we cant blame people for taking their personal safety seriously when it comes to vocalizing their criticisms.
- pjc50 1y agoSadly, everyone knows what you mean and vagueposting is no protection. I'm reminded of the (apocryphal?) Russian protestor arrested for holding a blank piece of paper.
- bloak 1y agoI don't know about Russia but there seem to be loads of cases of people being arrested (or detained or harrassed by police) for holding up a blank piece of paper, including one case in Cornwall: https://netpol.org/2023/02/10/cornish-protester-assaulted-and-threatened-with-arrest-for-blank-piece-of-paper/ https://netpol.org/2023/02/10/cornish-protester-assaulted-an... In Singapore someone was charged for holding up a piece of cardboard with a smiley face drawn on it: https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/11/26/public-order-in-singapore-has-been-shaken-by-a-hand-drawn-smiley-face https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/11/26/public-order-in-si...
- jansan 1y agoThat is nonsense. Even if the Gaza deal was worthy a Nobel Peace Prize, nobody, including Trump, would expect to be honored two days after the deal.
- ddrdrck_ 1y agoYou mean, nobody except Trump.
- mw67 1y agoThe deal won't even last, we all know Israel can't stop killing until they get all the lands they want, and Trump knows it too: https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1976374346538156429 https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1976374346538156429
- eru 1y agoThey should really have given him one before the deal. I mean, Obama got one just for showing up. (To be clear, I don't think Trump should get one; and Obama's win was really weird. But, hey, if Kissinger can get one..)
- kgwgk 1y agoMaybe they didn’t want to make the same mistake: Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960
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- anilakar 1y agoWhen you fuck up world peace so badly your successor gets the prize for doing nothing...
- rkomorn 1y agoNot even "for doing nothing", more like "before doing anything". He wasn't even 10 months into his presidency. If there's one job in the world where I'd wait until someone's well out of office before judging their impact on peace, it's the US presidency. I'm in a circle of people who lean pretty damn far left and even at the time, the only reactions I heard were "huh, what?"
- j4nitor 1y agoI'm so happy as a Finn that we signed big icebreaker deal with Trump just before this. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-finlands-stubb-expected-reach-icebreaker-deal-2025-10-09/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-finlands-stubb-expect...
- throw0101d 1y agoThis was initially worked up under Biden: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_Pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_Pact
- WinstonSmith84 1y agoIt was a MAGA talking point from the start, meant for MAGA ppl... The chance he got it was 0%, because: 1- The Nobel Peace Prize is chosen by a committee of 5 Norwegians. Having Russia or Israel expressing support doesn't help, it's probably even counterproductive. Random endorsements on Twitter don't matter either.. 2- The committee values international cooperation, not trade wars, isolationism, or cozying up to dictators. 3- They prize the defense of democracy, not attacks on it. 4- The cherry on the cake: Machado got the prize while he's been threatening war with Venezuela itself. It almost feels like a big f*ck off
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- henrikschroder 1y agoJust yesterday the orange one called for the arrest of two state governors. On charges of... uhhh... hm... Because... uhhmm.. he doesn't like them?
- ddddang 1y ago[dead]
- xorcist 1y ago> Having Russia or Israel expressing support doesn't help, Please. At least get the facts right. It was not just Russia and Israel. It was also Cambodia, Azerbaijan, Gabon and Rwanda.
- crossroadsguy 1y agoAlso, the current military dictator of Pakistan, and maybe it was done as a state sponsorship, not just a personal one.
- chrneu 1y agoit's not often Gabon shows up to the party. Lol
- thelastgallon 1y agoCan't the baby get one for economics?
- GolfPopper 1y agoThat's not actually a Nobel Prize.
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- knowriju 1y agoWell instead of him directly, his deep state apparatus got it, so there is that.
- jjgreen 1y agoI predict no more US oil for Norway ...
- palmfacehn 1y agoNorway is a net exporter of petroleum. Here is a related tangent: >Norway walks back US Navy fuel supply boycott https://www.bairdmaritime.com/security/naval/naval-ships/norway-walks-back-us-navy-fuel-supply-boycott https://www.bairdmaritime.com/security/naval/naval-ships/nor...
- bratwurst3000 1y agogood one :) I read the irony ;)
- jjgreen 1y agoNot all will ...
- insane_dreamer 1y agoAnd we might just take Greenland from them in retribution! (oh wait, that's Denmark, but never mind, a certain president probably wouldn't know the difference; if some Fox News commentator said that Greenland belongs to Norway, he'd believe it).
- deadbabe 1y agoStop injecting that fool into every conversation, the world doesn’t revolve around him. Discuss the recipient and her accomplishments.
- nothrowaways 1y agoI also know someone who expects a peace prize after creating a department of war.
- deepsquirrelnet 1y agoDavid Frum talked at length about self-abasement in MAGA public culture in his recent podcast for the Atlantic[1]. > I think it also becomes a real test of in-group loyalty to see who can outcompete in slavishness the other members of the circle, who are also competing to be slavish. That’s why you get these strange [phenomena] like Donald Trump’s physicians claiming that he’s the most physically vigorous president ever. > Now, even when Donald Trump was younger, he was a big man, but he was never a great athlete. And now, as he approaches his 80th birthday, he’s obviously not physically fit. > The fact is, you’re not just willing to tell a lie, but tell a lie that abases you, that makes you look foolish, that makes you look like you don’t care about yourself at all, that you only defer to the leader. That’s the real sign of loyalty. It’s flattery that is not meant to be believed but functions as a kind of system of in-group recognition. To me, this is a perfect mirror to Chairman Mao (supposedly) swimming across the Yangtze River in his 70s at a pace faster than an Olympic champion of today. There’s no meaning to any of it. It’s just propaganda and self-abasement for the purpose of loyalty competition to the leader. In fact, the more ludicrous, the better, because it means you’re willing to fully destroy any personal credibility you may have as a sacrifice to show loyalty. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/10/the-david-frum-show-margaret-spellings-school-testing/684489/ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/10/the-dav...
- cosmicgadget 1y agoWhoa now. He does not create. He rebrands.
- pphysch 1y agoThe same big baby that is allied with Machado in destroying Venezuela's sovereignty?
- tim333 1y ago>The White House has denounced the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel peace prize to someone other than Donald Trump. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/trump-nobel-peace-prize-reaction https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/trump-nobel-...
- duxup 1y agoI think that whole discussion was aimed at people who know nothing about the Nobel Peace Prize ... but many of those would be his fans.
- amysox 1y agoExpect a ketchupnado in the White House...