The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
Posted this in the mega immediately after losing my mind at this, then realized I should search for a NPP thread.
Haven’t been here in a bit but I needed to vent about seeing the reaction online to María Corina Machado getting the Nobel Peace Prize. So many people are posting “lmao won by a woman, and a Venezuelan woman too, Trump totally owned.”
Then doing 15 minutes of looking into this person to find out she supported Trump’s terrorist attack on 11 of her own countrymen, called for US military intervention in Venezuela, called for israeli military intervention in Venezuela, supports privatizing the oil industry, was involved in a 2002 coup attempt that tried to dissolve the entire government down to city level positions (mayors!), has literally been on DJT Jr’s podcast, has supported the current israeli genocide and states that when she takes control of the government she’s putting the Venezuelan embassy in israel into Jerusalem.
Then hours after winning she tweeted, in English, that she was dedicating her prize to Trump anyways!
Absolute freak shit. Constantly seesawing between whether I hate libs or conservatives more. Also, in-between all the “Tankie this Tankie that” that anyone trying to call attention to this gets, I’ve seen “campist” used as a pejorative for people criticizing this. Fuck anyone who calls people campist, they’re just American running dogs with extra steps.
I’ve had multiple reddit libs call me a Trump supporter today for telling them she’s a Trump supporter and a zionist and generally just sucks. Like how do these people’s minds even work lol
No class consciousness and no understanding of class conflict whatsoever. All politics are identity politics conflicts motivated by apparently nothing in particular.
I think the Nobel’s decision to reward her but “snub” Trump, as well as the Blue Dogs (like fucking Obama) congratulating her beforehand right before she dedicated her prize to Trump anyway, is yet another case of “social” liberals trying and failing to get back the reins of the ship to return to “sensible normalcy”, while still earning the majority favor of the cappies and maintaining the international regime of imperial violence. Between everything that went on from Biden’s presidency onward (arguably earlier), the cat isn’t going back into the bag. The impotency of the mainstream political “left” in Europe and America (save for running incredibly unpopular policies among their own bases) has run its course, and while the right wing dipshits taking over are far from popular, their opponents aren’t seizing the moment when it presents itself, and are hardly putting the effort to lie anymore (compare the first Obama term to the Dems now). If there were a well-funded progressive or social democratic movement not tied to the hip to neoliberalis, it could easily roll over the opposition but the bourgeoisie who facilitate that funding in the first place are by and large supporting one of two camps, not including them.
In a sense, Trump’s victory and his support for like-minded right-wing figures like Machado more or less rang the death knell of social liberalism as a project in the West which the Nobel commission would very much like to see revived. He represents the domineering section of the political and capitalist class which wants to see a transition from sissy things like soft-power status quo, humanism and faux-internationalism into a more aggressive and unabashed form of liberal imperialism and repression, as was standard in the 19th century before labor movements and “soft-hearts” (pragmatists) ruined everything.
Of course, the shitlibs will pout and would much like things going back to their way, but they would prefer to be in perpetual “opposition” in dominant-party right wing states rather than allow the actual Left to grow, at any costs.
Posted this in the mega immediately after losing my mind at this, then realized I should search for a NPP thread.
Haven’t been here in a bit but I needed to vent about seeing the reaction online to María Corina Machado getting the Nobel Peace Prize. So many people are posting “lmao won by a woman, and a Venezuelan woman too, Trump totally owned.”
Then doing 15 minutes of looking into this person to find out she supported Trump’s terrorist attack on 11 of her own countrymen, called for US military intervention in Venezuela, called for israeli military intervention in Venezuela, supports privatizing the oil industry, was involved in a 2002 coup attempt that tried to dissolve the entire government down to city level positions (mayors!), has literally been on DJT Jr’s podcast, has supported the current israeli genocide and states that when she takes control of the government she’s putting the Venezuelan embassy in israel into Jerusalem.
Then hours after winning she tweeted, in English, that she was dedicating her prize to Trump anyways!
Absolute freak shit. Constantly seesawing between whether I hate libs or conservatives more. Also, in-between all the “Tankie this Tankie that” that anyone trying to call attention to this gets, I’ve seen “campist” used as a pejorative for people criticizing this. Fuck anyone who calls people campist, they’re just American running dogs with extra steps.
I’ve had multiple reddit libs call me a Trump supporter today for telling them she’s a Trump supporter and a zionist and generally just sucks. Like how do these people’s minds even work lol
No class consciousness and no understanding of class conflict whatsoever. All politics are identity politics conflicts motivated by apparently nothing in particular.
I think the Nobel’s decision to reward her but “snub” Trump, as well as the Blue Dogs (like fucking Obama) congratulating her beforehand right before she dedicated her prize to Trump anyway, is yet another case of “social” liberals trying and failing to get back the reins of the ship to return to “sensible normalcy”, while still earning the majority favor of the cappies and maintaining the international regime of imperial violence. Between everything that went on from Biden’s presidency onward (arguably earlier), the cat isn’t going back into the bag. The impotency of the mainstream political “left” in Europe and America (save for running incredibly unpopular policies among their own bases) has run its course, and while the right wing dipshits taking over are far from popular, their opponents aren’t seizing the moment when it presents itself, and are hardly putting the effort to lie anymore (compare the first Obama term to the Dems now). If there were a well-funded progressive or social democratic movement not tied to the hip to neoliberalis, it could easily roll over the opposition but the bourgeoisie who facilitate that funding in the first place are by and large supporting one of two camps, not including them.
In a sense, Trump’s victory and his support for like-minded right-wing figures like Machado more or less rang the death knell of social liberalism as a project in the West which the Nobel commission would very much like to see revived. He represents the domineering section of the political and capitalist class which wants to see a transition from sissy things like soft-power status quo, humanism and faux-internationalism into a more aggressive and unabashed form of liberal imperialism and repression, as was standard in the 19th century before labor movements and “soft-hearts” (pragmatists) ruined everything.
Of course, the shitlibs will pout and would much like things going back to their way, but they would prefer to be in perpetual “opposition” in dominant-party right wing states rather than allow the actual Left to grow, at any costs.
campist is cold war shit. Post-1991, you’re either supporting the imperial hegemon or you are fighting against it