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[–] thehowlingnorth@lemmy.ca 82 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It's like fucking Putin and the Superbowl ring.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What…? Didn’t know about this. Need to search web

Holy shit. What a piece of work…

[–] ryokimball@infosec.pub 13 points 4 days ago

... I had forgotten about that.

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 63 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I honestly don't know how the Onion is going to beat this.

Heck, I don't know if future students of history are actually going to be able to believe the history books about this decade, should they be written with any sort of accuracy... Reality's jumped the shark.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Of course they will. Political leaders in the past have done many many bizarre things.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some 30-35 years ago there was a commando of (mostly child) soldiers running around naked because it makes them invulnerable, or so their leader claimed. Then he went on forcibly apologizing to people whose family members he'd killed and/or eaten. Oh and he's an evangelical street preacher.

Reality has never been not weird.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

You forgot that he is called General Butt Naked.

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 73 points 4 days ago
[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 59 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It means nothing because it can’t be given to anyone other than whose won it. Like you can’t give the medal of freedom to Oscar the Grouch.

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We really should, though. Dude needs a win.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

He helped teach the world to read, if Oscar doesn’t deserve it who does?

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago

I would. Oscar's the freeest muppet, he lives by his own rules. (And his garbage can is bigger on the inside, so that includes the laws of physics)

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Donny, i understand you. I once bought myself a #1 dad mug at the thrift shop. i don’t even have kids.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

JFC, how pathetic this guy is.

That's not how medals work, asshole.

Who would have thought a guy practically in the Silent Generation would have pined for a participation trophy? Such a loser.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not even a participation trophy. I have recieved exactly 1 trophy in my life. It was a 1992 participation trophy for playing 1st grade basketball as mandated by the school.

But I DID play the season of basketball. I DID participste.

Show me where trump has participated in acts that promote peace.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

Trump discovers a new level of loserdom daily.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

C’mon, boomers. Lecture us about participation trophies again.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 32 points 4 days ago

haha oh man what a loser

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Say what you will about participation awards, but at least their recipients actually participated in the activity in question. I don't know what this is.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 16 points 4 days ago

It's a bribe.

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

~~Participation award.~~

Bribe

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 23 points 4 days ago

This is more pathetic than getting sports trophies off of Freecycle and claiming you "won" all of them. What a pedophile loser!

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago

And now he has no use for her. Goodbye.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 19 points 4 days ago

This is not pathetic at all.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

lol. It actually happened?

What the fuck is this timeline?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Well that thing is null and void now

[–] mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I feel like her sacrificial decision to give him this (ultimately meaningless) symbolic token in exchange for the potential of peace for her country is showing why she deserved the Peace Prize in the first place. If handing it over makes Trump chill the hell out about working with Venezuela's succession, it will have been worth it.

(This situation is obviously batshit insane and it's pathetic that he's extorting her, but at least she's trying to use all her resources available to manipulate this mad king and sue for peace - if this Nobel Prize was driving his hatred, it's best to sacrifice it I guess. Especially since the actual honor is non-transferrable LMAO)

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Or she's just selling out and kissing ass in hopes that the invaders will install her as a puppet and grant her money and power.

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Should have made a fake one with a little radioactive bit inside.

I mean who would check ?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Airport security would detect that. Radio-isotope poisoning is a favorite of the Russians, I'm sure the White house has multiple layers of detection set up for exactly that kind of thing.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought right-wingers hated participation trophies for all kids, even the dregs. Hypocrite.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The Nobel organization should rescind her award and give it to someone else. Now he just has a gold necklace and not an official Nobel Prize.

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I'm sure this was a difficult choice.

It's basically this, and hope that it buys enough goodwill with Trump to let you take over the government there, or you keep it and let the US operate the government as a puppet state.

Ultimately, if this pays off, the medal is a pretty cheap price to pay all things considered

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The medal doesn't even mean anything. It's like buying a purple heart at an auction; doesn't make you a veteran. Of course, Trump would never understand that.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

It's a gold trinket. Everyone has clued in this is what you do with Trump.

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

A plastic existence

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just crapped in my pants! Now give me an award!

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago
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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Donnie wins the biggest boy prize.

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