Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel's genocide & Trump's war on Venezuela
https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/maria-corina-machado-israel-genocide-trump-war-venezuela
https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/maria-corina-machado-israel-genocide-trump-war-venezuela
15 Comments
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 49 pts · 322d
Daily reminder that the Nobel Prize was (still is) purely a marketing move to scrub the reputation of the Merchant of Death, Alfred Nobel. Because he got butthurt that the newspapers had the audacity to shed light on the truth about his horrible legacy.
The first Nobel Peace Prize went to the woman he had a crush on and never got over even decades after she dumped his explosive peddling ass.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 35 pts · 322d
She also donated the award to Trump and asked him to invade to overthrow the democratically elected socialist leadership.
logi@piefed.world · -8 pts · 322d
That's not great. But. However. Those were not democratic elections in Venezuela. That was a farce.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 322d
Maduro won the election, and the US tried to manufacture consent to overturn it.
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 322d
Given the state of Venezuela's economy I find is highly implausible that Maduro could've actually won. This isn't to support invasion or Machado, just realistically speaking there's no way the voters agreed to more Maduro.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 322d
Why not? He's fairly popular.
Pherenike@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 320d
I don't think even 5% of Venezuela's economic issues derive from Maduro's government. Not that I like him particularly. We severely underestimate -or pretty much ignore- the actual implications of being subjected to the sanctions and isolation Venezuela has been. And the huge social fracture derived primarily from the middle to upper class being annoyed at having to redistribute wealth for decades ain't helping. I know this first-hand and the insolidarity, entitlement and neoliberal kool-aid drinking from that part of Venezuelan society is a fucking bleak reality.
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 320d
I'm not saying Maduro is to blame, but regardless when people feel less well-off it'd take a miracle (or fraud) to win an election.
Pherenike@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 320d
Well, the public knows about those issues because Maduro talks about them all the time. Why wouldn't they vote for him if they know it?
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 320d
People don't vote based on words, they vote based on their subjective experience and vibes.
aliteral@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 322d
I dunno man, Maduro seems pretty openly anti-left to me. So much so he disavows parties that are left of him. It doesn't scream socialist...
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 322d
Can you give an example?
Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 322d
they should've given the piss prize to satanyahu
Pherenike@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 322d
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