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American presidents do not deserve a nobel peace prize.
He absolutely didn't deserve it, but since he got it, the least we can do, is to make jokes with it
But you could have stopped 2017, don't drag it out so much! It's far over being funny by now.
I agree with this one hundred percent. Obama drone strikes took out a lot of civies
I'd wager the majority were civilians.
I'll never understand how you can justify classifying every male about 16 as a combatant. The US was literally invading other nations and killing their kids. Like specifically targeting them in precision strikes.
Yeah I'm not sure how they do that either. I can somewhat understand the fact that the other countries were arming the kids and thus everyone is a threat but there are specific operational guidelines that make it so this is not the case so I agree I don't understand how that is a thing either besides the operational parameters were not correctly articulated.
were arming the kids
No no you misunderstand and male that appeared over 16 based on drone footage was considered a target. They didn't have to be armed. The only crime these kids committed was being outside.
Now how often do you think other people like women and younger children were killed in cold blood and written off as "appeared to be a male over 16"?
No I'm saying that was probably their justification for doing so. I don't think it was right at all.
I think the problem is in the value you're attributing to a reward that is the function of a terrible dead rich guys will.
I smell AI
Ya but oh well, doesn't take away from the message
Fuck AI
Isn't the only thing here AI generated the image? The text is probably not?
Sure, but that text (the joke) has already been done to death like a decade ago. "Black humour is like food, not everybody gets it" and so on...
It should, because the Message would be the Same, even with Stick Figures but it would be human made. So why use AI for that?
What message would that be?
The literal text
Yes. Go on. The literal text is conveying what message?
Blue war crimes good, red war crimes bad
I must be out of touch with reality. I don't get what everyone hates about the joke
Barack Obama, the first Nobel Peace Prize recipient to instate global mass surveillance and bombard 6 countries.
Ol double tap civvies Obama getting peace price...
All presidents are war criminals 😒
Seems to be AI generated
I love that we’re just AI boomerposting now
Yeah, we’re becoming Facebook.
“How many Nobel peace prizes does it take to keep a president from extrajudicially killing Americans?” Obama: “At least 2”
Oh come on now. Obama would never. Obama would say it like this "uhhh.... Well, as, a nobel, uhh, prize winner. I can, with confidence, say that, uhhh, it will take uh TWO, at a minimum, hahaha. And remember to sign up for ACA coverage"
there are some valid examples to justify calling the Nobel peace prize a joke
Diaper Donnie still wouldn’t get it.
...Nobel invented dynamite?..just asking...
I don't think most world leaders even deserve a "peace prize"
Hell, why not nominate me. I literally have 0 kills. I qualify more than literally any US president lmfao.
Gimme the fucking prize.
Obama approved a program of drone strikes all over the Middle East. Entire weddings were blown up because one terrorist was in attendance. Some drone'pilot' at an air force base in Nevada would just target the whole wedding venue.
Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.
He's certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.
You may not agree that this was condescending, but it's hard to argue that Obama's legacy is of the peacemaker domestically or internationally.
Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.
This, of all the things to be critrical of, isnt it (the drone part).
Less invasive, less troops on the ground, more precise strikes than traditional bombings. Things don't exisr in a vacuums. Drones were a W.
He’s certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.
This hints something about you that you think it was him being black and not him not being bush after bush, and being charming.
To be so unwilling to see nuance, that you morphed my opinion into something completely different than what I said, and assumed I fit in your favourite political punching bag box is a problem.
assumed I fit in your favourite political punching bag box is a problem.
Drones were a W.
you kind of walked in to it
No. No I did not.
To use only that excerpt and ignore that the primary point was that this was harm reduction vs prior actions is to completely misrepresent the point.
I was clear in that the point was solely about the criticism being in the technology choice, not the foreign policy.
...the prize is named after a man who caused more destruction than creation, figure this shit out, the whole politic thing is a joke....
I mean that’s why he established it.
This would be more humorous if Obama hadn’t made the same joke about Trump being president at the White House Press Corps dinner in 2011.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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