• tiberius@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” -Trump, May 2023

    When a leader in any capacity promises something, you expect them to deliver.

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      11 days ago

      “They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats! They’re eating the pets”

      47th President of the United States

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        The subtext behind Pakistan doing it, and doing it now, is to try and bait Trump away from getting involved with Pakistan’s ally: Iran.

        If Trump does anything to Iran, Pakistan is going to make a big fuss about doubling-back on their nomination.

        Does the nomination mean anything? No. Is he going to get the award? No. It’s entirely a diplomatic maneuver for a very specific goal of keeping the US out of Iran.

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          Its just buttering him up for the next terrorism attack on India that Pakistan is planning to conduct. Iran is a Shia majority country and no ally of Pakistan which is a sunni majority country. Minority sects like Hindus, Shia, Ahmadiyas and ethnic minorities like Hazaras are treated the absolute worst in Pakistan. I would be surprised if they ever ally with Iran.

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      11 days ago

      I really dislike that so many people in this timeline don’t know or can’t see the difference between worse and worst.

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    10 days ago

    Norwegian here. I can still hear the gasping from the laughter of the nobel committee in Oslo. And I’m on vacation abroad.

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    11 days ago

    Well Hitler was nominated too. Sarcastically, by an anti-fashist, but he was nominated.

    So one more thing they have in common now.

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      10 days ago

      Is it still a respected thing? I was under the impression it’s not Obama didn’t do anything except be elected and he was nominated. Can’t remember if he won it though but that seems like pretty weak criteria to be nominated.

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    As as to be said somehow literally every time these headlines are published, nominations for any Nobel prize are kept secret and announcing that you’ve submitted a nomination if anything makes them less likely to be accepted as it harms the nomination by harming the image of the nominator. Anyone can say they’ve nominated anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize and they can’t be proven or disproven for 50 years.

    Oh and “Pakistan” can’t nominate anyone for a Nobel Prize. All you need to be a nominator for the Nobel Peace Prize is to be an elected official or a university professor, but you do have to be a person. The likely of a headline not bothering to distinguish between a person and their 250 million people nation seems to increase linearly with distance east from the Greenwich meridian.

    https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/questions-and-answers-about-the-nomination-process-for-a-nobel-peace-prize/

    Please remember this when that Norwegian ‘scientist’ nominations Trump or Elon or whoever in October like he does every year.

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        10 days ago

        Well yeah but wasn’t that why he came up with the Nobel prizes in the first place, to not be remembered as a monster?

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          10 days ago

          My other comment still stands… Trump can receive as many as he can and I’ll still see him for what he really is… a giant piece of shit

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            10 days ago

            I fully agree

            You can polish a turd all you want but it’ll still smell like shit