cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53694096

Niels Bohr famously dissolved the medal he got for his Nobel Price for chemistry in acid when the Nazis invaded his home country of Denmark, to prevent it from falling into the Nazis’ hands.

Unlike him, the most recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of all things, who shall not be named here, because she doesn’t deserve being named, handed her medal to a deranged megalomaniac and fascist wannabe dictator.

  • PugJesus@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    Yep, keeping him from humiliating himself with a token was definitely worth endangering herself and her country’s people.

    What danger to her country has been reduced by giving (or attempting to give) Trump the medal?

    That medal means nothing in his hands and everyone knows it. I can’t believe we’re pretending she wasn’t coerced publicly and that a “mind control machine” is needed

    Fuck, man, she’s a politician and a grown-ass woman. She makes decisions, and she’s fucking responsible for them. She started her bootlicking for Trump upon receiving the award. I don’t know why this is controversial.

    Regardless of whether you think it was a good move or a bad move, it was her fucking choice, and people are right to ascribe agency to her in judging it.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      18 hours ago

      And I don’t know how it’s controversial that a piece of metal is worth the risk of a dictator doing whatever he wants in retaliation. You ask what danger there is… this is like asking what a mob boss threat is worth. Giving him that literally changes nothing except it makes Trump look pathetic and desperate on the world stage. No one thinks he earned the award except the people who already think he’s God regardless of what he does.