Obama did not deserve that one. Henry fucking Kissinger got one. The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke at best, and a bastardization of the idea mixed with horrific propaganda at worst.
Obama's got jokes
Submitted 10 months ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Cruxifux@feddit.nl 10 months ago
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If I remember correctly Obama got it like a couple of weeks into his presidency before having done anything. While continuing a war. So yeah it’s meaningless.
To give a peace price to any president is laughable
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
He essentially got it for not being Bush.
Not saying Donnie deserves it but we need to stop pretending that Obama getting the prize is some sort of achievement.
Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if the next elected Democrat president got it either.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite lol
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
And was horrified that people used it to make bombs. That’s why he started the prize.
Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 10 months ago
I smell AI
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Ya but oh well, doesn’t take away from the message
Callypo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It should, because the Message wolle be the Same, even with Stick Figures but it would be human made. So why use AI for that?
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Barack Obama, the first Nobel Peace Prize recipient to instate global mass surveillance and bombard 6 countries.
silentjohn@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Ol double tap civvies Obama getting peace price…
All presidents are war criminals 😒
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Seems to be AI generated
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I love that we’re just AI boomerposting now
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yeah, we’re becoming Facebook.
expatriado@lemmy.world 10 months ago
there are some valid examples to justify calling the Nobel peace prize a joke
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Diaper Donnie still wouldn’t get it.
notsure@fedia.io 10 months ago
...Nobel invented dynamite?..just asking...
yesman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.
He’s certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.
You may not agree that this was condescending, but it’s hard to argue that Obama’s legacy is of the peacemaker.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.
This, of all the things to be critrical of, isnt it (the drone part).
Less invasive, less troops on the ground, more precise strikes than traditional bombings. Things don’t exisr in a vacuums. Drones were a W.
He’s certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.
This hints something about you that you think it was him being black and not him not being bush after bush, and being charming.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t think most world leaders even deserve a “peace prize”
Hell, why not nominate me. I literally have 0 kills. I qualify more than literally any US president lmfao.
Gimme the fucking prize.
Dive_Bar_Dave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Obama approved a program of drone strikes all over the Middle East. Entire weddings were blown up because one terrorist was in attendance. Some drone’pilot’ at an air force base in Nevada would just target the whole wedding venue.
handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
“How many Nobel peace prizes does it take to keep a president from extrajudicially killing Americans?” Obama: “At least 2”
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Oh come on now. Obama would never. Obama would say it like this “uhhh… Well, as, a nobel, uhh, prize winner. I can, with confidence, say that, uhhh, it will take uh TWO, at a minimum, hahaha. And remember to sign up for ACA coverage”
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unrealistic reaction from donnie. Psychopaths/ sociopaths never feel regret or sadness or remorse.
Dive_Bar_Dave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Anger would be his reaction.
notsure@fedia.io 10 months ago
...the prize is named after a man who caused more destruction than creation, figure this shit out, the whole politic thing is a joke....
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I mean that’s why he established it.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
This would be more humorous if Obama hadn’t made the same joke about Trump being president at the White House Press Corps dinner in 2011.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Yeah that shit annoyed the fuck out of me when he said it. I knew in that moment that Trump was going to get all the power he was seeking.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
American presidents do not deserve a nobel peace prize.
Korne127@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He absolutely didn’t deserve it, but since he got it, the least we can do, is to make jokes with it
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
But you could have stopped 2017, don’t drag it out so much! It’s far over being funny by now.
Redkid1324@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree with this one hundred percent. Obama drone strikes took out a lot of civies
arrow74@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I’d wager the majority were civilians.
I’ll never understand how you can justify classifying every male about 16 as a combatant. The US was literally invading other nations and killing their kids. Like specifically targeting them in precision strikes.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think the problem is in the value you’re attributing to a reward that is the function of a terrible dead rich guys will.