• sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub
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    3 hours ago

    we will not consider any leader as a candidate who imposes or utilises martial law to rule their country.

    Anwar Sadat got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.

    We will not consider any candidate who orders international killings of civilians.

    Henry Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.

    We will not consider any candidate that ignores their own countries constitutional protections when it comes to foreign nationals living in its territories

    Yitzhak Rabin got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, and Menachem Begin got it jointly with Sadat in 1978.

    Any requirement that the Nobel Peace Prize, the most prestigious act of virtue signaling in the world, be limited only to good people, would collapse under the weight of its own hypocrisy.

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      27 minutes ago

      I mean it always has been a bit hypocritical. It was Noble’s attempt to whitewash his memory as the creator of dynamite, which was almost immediately used as a weapon in the Franco Prussian war.