would be kinda amusing if we had similar ceremonies here on Lemmy.
The current institution just uses it to whitewash war criminals like Kissinger or to manufacture consent, such as this current year with trying to justify regime change in Venezuela against a popularly elected leader while the US Empire slaughters Venezuelans.
An actual peace prize? Give it to those who risked their lives or sacrificed them in trying to deliver aid to Palestine. The journalists that Israel murdered, the doctors working in Gaza trying to save as many people as possible from genocide.
You argue for the martyrs to receive these prizes ?
Yes, absolutely. They’ve done far more for peace than the vast majority of the prize’s actual recipients.
Nobel prizes cannot be given to the dead.
Doesn’t mean we can’t change the rules, plus many of the doctors and aid workers are still alive.
Should have given it to Greta, just to really piss TACO
I agree on this choice. Hilariously enough, it would’ve been controversial !
I think it’s dumb how much cultural weight the Nobel Peace Prize is still given. It’s a popularity contest judged by 5 Norwegian politicians.
Obama getting the prize less than a year into his presidential term, only to airstrike Libya two years later. And the entire EU winning the prize in 2012 for existing.
I’m similarly unimpressed with prestige awards elsewhere, like the Oscars for film.
Didn’t Trump get nominated for it at some point while actively building an allegator prison?
Greta Thunberg
Ms Rachel.
I wonder how many millennials’ parenting career she saved
greta or the flotilla crew but they definitely wouldn’t accept it; i honestly don’t know of many people who are truely working for peace in the world.
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No, not since Obama got one. I’m sure some were given to other monsters before him, but he was the one that made me stop taking it seriously in any capacity.
Much worse people have received it than him. Kissinger most notably.
It really doesn’t make any sense. The candidates and winners are chosen by a committee appointed by the Norwegian goverment, there is 0 objectivity there. The notion that it is a legit award gets more ridiculous the more you read into it.
It has always been hit or miss and has been given to warmongers who happen to negotiate for peace at one point.
I think it’s dumb the most peaceful people aren’t people who are recognized nearly enough to be a candidate for the “Nobel peace prize”. Also out of billions of humans giving it to one person (sometimes organization) is foolish
Obama. Mostly because the orange one would have a stroke if that happened.
Benjamin Netanyahu
I’m upvoting this because it made me laugh and I’m 90% sure you’re joking, but I think other people may be less sure and you might wanna add a /s lol
I sure as shit hope you’re joking. I reckon you probs are, but poes law strikes again
