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[–] 12 points 1 week ago (9 children)

They frequently give them to gusanos who advocate for bombing their own countries, and they gave one to Kissinger, so I don't think that matters much to them.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    The thoughts of the only Chinese national to win a nobel peace prize. It's a truly vile institution that spends the majority of its time laundering the horrific histories of some of histories most vile people and institutions.

    Interviewer: “Then what conditions would allow a true historic transformation in China?”

    Liu Xiaobo: “Three hundred years of colonization. Hong Kong took a hundred years of colonizing to get where it is today, so the mainland, huge as it is, would need three hundred to reach Hong Kong’s level. I don’t even know if three hundred would be enough."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    weren't there a guy who got the prize and then did 180 and committed a bunch of war crimes?

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    nah, there is another one - Abiy Ahmed.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)