• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    This is such obviously corrupt behavior. I still have no idea why anyone is still playing along with it. The world needs to be unified in its rejection of everything Trump represents.

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      Because the USA is the most powerful country, both militarily and economically?

      And politicians have become spineless yes men.

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      It’s the same reason most of the political class give in to corruption. Money. He’s just doing what oligarchs do domestically on an international scale.

      Money is also why most people refuse to strike, or do anything that might rock the boat. We’re all so pampered we have abandoned all the morals and ethics we virtue signal for selfish, temporary comfort.

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    9 days ago

    Can I ask a really dumb question here?

    Why the fuck does Trump want a Nobel Peace Prize?

    Like, what does he think it means? Does he not understand that he needs to, you know, be a decent diplomat? Or is it one of those “Oh, shiny!” Things?

    It’s Obama isn’t it? Obama got one so he has to have one? He’s not going to be happy until he has two, isn’t he?

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    Ok. Now, this is a new level of stupid. We’ve gone full infant.

    He’s punishing the USA because he didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for… Nothing.

    And he does it by slapping Tarrifs on India, because he thinks that it punishes India.

    Does he think that the USA is somehow the only buyer of goods and services in the world? I mean that would make sense why he keeps doing that.

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    8 days ago

    As an Indian American, I fucking hate Modi but I would love to see these two kill each other (if even metaphorically)

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    Really nice of Trump to prove Obama really did earn his prize fairly by showing how next to impossible it is to sleaze your way in.

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      Let’s not fool ourselves. Obama got it after less than a year in the presidency, with drone strikes killing civilians still.

      It was mostly virtue signaling.

      Glad orange Hitler is begging for one (and failing)

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        It might have just been the whiplash from a Bush Admin to Obama, but he was very quickly making a lot of friends in the Middle East.

        By 8 months in he had already begun a slow strategic withdrawal from Iraq and helped negotiate disarmament with Iran, alongside 6 other nations who wished for Iran disarmament. Although after Obama received his prize Iran talked about producing more enriched Uranium again in November and the Nuclear Disarmament deal wasn’t signed until 2015.

        The fact that Trump dismantled the treaty just goes to show, again, that it’s not something anyone could do.