• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    They gave it to Kissinger after a decade of firebombing South East Asia, murdering a million peasants who only wanted a plot of land to grow rice after a century of French colonial dictatorship, denying the Vietnamese people their basic human right to democracy the entire god damn time.

    That was over 5 decades ago. The prize is a joke, decided by oligarchs who are not like us, and do not stand for peace… always has been.

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      3 days ago

      Not to mention that the prize itself was meant to whitewash the reputation of a war profiteer.