• MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 hours ago

    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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      16 hours ago

      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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          13 minutes ago

          They have him the peace prize way before that though. Almost like a prize for winning the election

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        16 hours ago

        Yeah in hindsight it was a silly award that felt like a “thanks for not being Bush and Cheney” prize.

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          16 hours ago

          Now look into how many bombs were dropped under Bush/Chaney, and then how many were dropped under Obama. You’ll quickly understand what the Nobel Peace Prize was for.

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              15 hours ago

              You’re saying that there was no Afghan war for the first 10 months of Bush’s admin and no Iraq war for the first two I take it?

              Even with that factored in, from what I can tell the Bush admin dropped nearly double (100k for Obama vs 200k for Bush), although I’m not sure where they’re sourcing their information from.

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                13 hours ago

                It’s a weird argument, because he got the peace prize really early into his presidency; before he could have an impact to get America to drop 100k bombs vs 200k, but also dropping a hundred thousand bombs seems like a hundred thousand more bombs than one would have to drop to be called a paragon of peace…

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                  12 hours ago

                  Oh for sure, I just don’t think it makes sense to imply he was worse than the people that created the mess in the first place who also happened to drop more bombs.

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                    1 hour ago

                    Where are you getting your numbers from, cause what I’m seeing is that America dropped way more bombs under Obama than under Bush.