• DaMummy@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Maybe it’s time to see Eurovision for what it really is. I think Americans are starting to see what the Nobel Peace Prize is all about as well.

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        15 hours ago

        I’m not exactly sure what they’re getting at, but I did see someone from the Nobel Peace Prize committee call for Maduro’s removal just as the US has been ramping up its “anti-narcotics” operations in around the oil and lithium rich country, complete with extra judicial killings of Venezuelans, telling other nations to avoid their airspace and very recently seizing an oil tanker ship…

        So it kinda feels like the Nobel Peace Prize committee is trying to add justification to the cause for war that the US is trying to drum up, which is wantonly egregious, so maybe they’re implying that both the Nobel committee and Eurovision are tacit supporters and backers of imperialism.

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          I mean Maduro is pretty bad. If that statement was just about him, I don’t see the issue. They seemed to quite dislike everything Trump was doing.

          The most confusing part about that statement was Americans seeing what the Nobel prize is. They especially should stfu after electing that shit-show XD

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            The peace prize did seem pretty pointless since Obama won it for doing nothing. Like don’t get me wrong I voted for the guy and wanted him to win, but it was pretty dang empty to give him the peace prize, especially since he then went on to be in charge while some really ugly stuff went down.

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        9 hours ago

        Reading about the “Cultural Cold War” will very quickly explain it to you. They’re both a propaganda arm of the MIC.

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    5 hours ago

    The ESC winner of 2024…

    The attack on Israel was 2023…

    Israel has been in Gaza since 2023… This was already brutal in 2024…

    Israel was part of ESC in 2023 and 2024…

    Looks like a publicity stunt…

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    11 hours ago

    I kind of find it funny all these countries with genocidal history getting on their high horse through a music competition, y’all a disaster.

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      Fun fact: 100% of countries have done fucked up shit.

      I’m not pointing that out because I think that excuses any of the fucked up shit. It doesn’t.

      I’m pointing it out because by the standards of “shut up if your country was ever genocidal”, only people from countries with very little power and influence are allowed to try to do or say anything to make the world a better place for those of us not in favor of genocide.

      TL;DR: STFU with that ultra reductionist edgelord bullshit. You’re not helping and you’re not being clever.

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        7 hours ago

        Perspective, you are being very reductionist. Not that i disagree necessarily. Creating a country rarely came from lets all get together and sing happy songs, but there are vast differences among formation of countries, colonialism, and genocide.