Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Obama got it before the drone bombings. It was more of a hope kinda thing but the hope didn’t turn out that great. And really just indirectly led us to vaguely gesture around

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  • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Obama not fighting for his Supreme Court appointment is a lot more than indirectly responsible for all of this. He abdicated his duty to execute the office and fucked us all in doing so.

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    • calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, we’re to “blame Obama for this” instead of blaming the senators who outright refused to look at Supreme Court Justices for a year.

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      • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lots of people share blame but Obama did not fight for it at all, which amounts to appeasement. There should have been a Supreme Court case about it.

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    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could he have done more than “encourage” RBG?

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look, I’m not going to say Obama is blameless, but come on man. You’re kind of victim blaming here.

      Mitch McConnell and the GOP are responsible.

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They can and do take prizes off laureates if they go bad later.

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