Spyke
sh.itjust.works

God it fucking burns him so bad that Obama got one and he didn't.

Obama didn't even deserve a peace prize, the guy did more drone strikes than Bush, but just for the fact that it upsets Trump so much I say they should give him another one.

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At the time, they were still incredibly expensive and unreliable.

I think that's a feature, more money for Lockmart and Raytheon, line go up.

as long as it reduces the number of Americans returning home in boxes

As long as it appears like they do. I don't think they give a fuck about their soldiers, otherwise they wouldn't have sent them to Asia to die.

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Republicans are so terrible that Obama was given a Nobel peace prize early into his first term just for not being a republican

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My one single satisfaction that I take from Turnip is despite having everything including some otherworldly luck - he will never be satisfied or appreciate any of it. What a sad and pathetic life and the only kind of life a sad fuck like him deserves.

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Ha yeah for his peace efforts in the Middle East (or Near East for us Europeans) just to fuck up Trump more.

God he's so cringe "they only give them to liberals 😭" no they are

granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind"

at which conservatives fail because they ultimately only benefit themselves.

Also I agree Obama didn't deserve them but at least he also gives at this fact himself and didn't wear it when he ordered drone strikes on wedding ceremonies while you can bet Trump would wear it on the toilet even

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lemmy.zip

the guy did more drone strikes than Bush

Explain why drones are any worse than any other kind of weapon. The people who get blown up are just as dead regardless.

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piefed.social

Drones remove a human being from the chain, making it easier to kill more people more often because it's less real

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startrek.website

This is anecdotal, but 22 years ago I attended an event where the US Air Force proudly played a video of a Predator drone strike. I was a teenager who avidly gamed, and felt horror at what I was forced to witness because I knew these were real people who were dying agonizing deaths

To this day I still feel the same emotions when I think of it, and I can't listen to Drowning Pool's "Bodies" because that's the song they played to accompany the footage

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Power hungry narcissists vs compassionate, empathetic human

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Yeah I'm not sure this is true, though I imagine it's only a matter of time. Anecdotally, but I know a guy who definitely has PTSD from, among other things, watching onscreen as such an automated weapon of war homed in on two combatants fleeing, closing in until finally one of them, looking over his shoulder directly at the camera, gave up and stopped running immediately before death.

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but just for the fact that it upsets Trump so much I say they should give him another one.

Five more, so Obama has one more than Trump thinks he's earned.

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Of course Obama did more drone strikes than Bush - drones were barely a thing during the Bush years. The technology only became practical, cost effective, and mass produced during Obama's term.

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Obama, being Blah, drives the likes of Taco crazy just by his very existence. Well, crazy-ier.

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lemm.ee

They don’t have Nobel Prizes for shitting your pants.

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NatakuNoxreply
lemmy.world

And even if they did, they still wouldn't give it to him simply on principle.

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My point exactly. The fact that Obama got it in the first place while killing thousands. "indirectly" but it's insane.

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I hope you have worked as a vet on a farm, otherwise I don't want to know how you have this knowledge.

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He doesn't understand how anything works. You can question his intelligence, and there's the dementia, but most of all, it's his ignorance that stands out.

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lemmy.world

Maybe he should shoot for something more attainable for someone of his capability, like a Darwin award

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eRacreply
lemmings.world

Isn't he out of contention since he has already reproduced?

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The worst thing about being an atheist is knowing that he isn't rotting in Hell.

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He could try running the Russians out of Ukraine, stop Israel genociding and restarting USAID in Sudan, saving millions of lifes. There are many projects he could take on. But he is not even trying. It's difficult, i know. But if you want a medal; you need to at least participate.

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lemmy.world

This is an opportunity. Somebody needs to tell him that pulling the leash on Israel would guarantee the prize. We could have a parade at the awards ceremony. Red carpet, real celebrities, and everything.

It would still only be the second most embarrassing Peace Prize given to a sitting president.

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If Trump would rein Israel in and stop the Gaza genocide and the war with Iran, and would put something tangible on the table to guarantee a two-state peaceful solution (like a DMZ with UN troops), I would think that despite his everything, I'd be okay to have him get a Peace Prize.

Stupid thing is, he is really in a position that no president in the past 5 decade at least found himself in, where he could actually do that with impunity, as he doesn't need Israeli funding to get reelected, and he doesn't give a fuck about getting anyone in his party reelected either.

Of course, this would need Trump to be both brave and smart, which he is not.

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lemmy.world

He's such an ideal Bond villain. Unfortunately there was never a Bond film featuring the villain being a president because no one could imagine something so outlandishly heinous. Speaks to the quality of this timeline.

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Also the villain shitting his diaper on screen probably wouldn't be right for the franchise.

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I've heard that the Nobel people were thinking about giving Trump one in two weeks ... but they are going to wait until the last second to decide.

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lemmy.world

I hope he lives just long enough for them to give a Nobel prize to whoever fixes the humanitarian nightmares he's creating. He deserves to see all his bullshit unravel in front of him.

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Capt. Wolfreply
lemmy.world

Well, I didn't say that I also hope he spends the rest of his days locked up in a cell, Hannibal Lecter style. Which I do.

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Demented rapist says he deserves five Nobel prizes. 34% of the country cheers.

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lemmy.world

Remember.

Trump is obsessed with Nobel prizes, because Obama got one.. and Trump is a small, tiny, jealous, insecure little man with an YUGE inferiority complex.

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Red89reply
lemm.ee

Obama made a joke at Trumps expense once and now Trump will do anything to one up him and erase Obama's accomplishments as president

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No matter how much spray tan he uses, he could never take away Obama's achievement of being the FIRST president of color.

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mcvreply

The only thing he's accomplishing is that people fondly remember Obama and want him back.

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lemmy.ca

the only way that fucking idiot should get one is if he jumped into a wood chipper and amid the global celebration, a sustainable peace broke out.

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if he jumped into a wood chipper

After pushing Vance and Johnson in

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Unfortunately, they don't hand them out for being the biggest dipshit around. He would have won way more than five by now if that was the case.

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lemm.ee

He should win the opposite of a Nobel Prize. Like how the razzies (which he has won a few of) are the opposite of oscars.

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You still have to put in some real work to win one of those. They don't just hand them out for whining in the media.

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"I deserve all the Nobel prizes in a most bigly way! Literature, Art Of The Deal is a masterpiece! Very good. Math and economics, I knew exactly how much to borrow from the Saudis! Frankly I'm very smart. Physics, medicine, who needs that woke crap? Bleach cures everything! I'm pretty sure I'm the greatest man who ever lived. All real Americans think the Nobel Prize should just be called the Trump Prize, believe me."

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4am
lemm.ee

Maybe he should become more liberal then. Be better than whatever the fuck he is now

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He's the physical embodiment of the seven deadly sins wrapped in fat and toxic chemicals.

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....in the same news cycle that he is bombing Iran he's bitching like a little bitch about not having won the Nobel Peace Prize?

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In some situations, it's hard to tell if correlation indicates causation. Why the right wing doesn't win Nobel peace prizes is not one of them.

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I would like a Nobel Prize awarded to AOC...for sending the backers of Project 2025 to Nuremberg, a second one for a Great New Deal, a third for a Renewed Bill of Rights, a 4th for funding a Neo-NHS that implements universal healthcare, and a fifth Nobel for killing capitalism as we know it. Maybe a sixth, for destroying the Klan and dismantling existing American Police with a wholely new institution without any members from their ICE predecessors.

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