• fizzle@quokk.au
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    1 day ago

    It’s just unfathomable to me that she thought it was a good idea to give it to him.

    She won it for her work in promoting democracy, then she uses it to bribe someone to help her subvert democracy.

    I cant help but feel like the Nobel committee really chose the wrong person.

    • 3abas@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      If a “democracy” laureate can turn the Nobel medal into a gift to Donald Trump to secure leverage, it exposes the prize as elite propaganda, not a meaningful moral measure. And it reveals Machado’s “pro-democracy” image as branding for regime-change patronage, where legitimacy comes from foreign powerbrokers rather than Venezuelan popular sovereignty.

      She was never pro democracy, look into her past and support for American coups. She’s a right wing fascist, like the lot of them.

    • Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      She won it by grifting. Just because someone is against an oppressive regime doesnt make them good nor democratic. The same with Navalny or for a less recent example Stauffenberg.