this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
261 points (98.9% liked)

The Onion and other satire w/ layers

2394 readers
1 users here now

For posting satire from The Onion and other similar sources.

redundancy, but not for its own sake

Be nice. All instance rules apply.

Rules:

  • Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  • No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  • No Ads / Spamming.
  • No pornography.

Règles :

  • Soyez respectueux. Tout le monde doit se sentir le bienvenu ici.
  • Pas de bigoterie - y compris le racisme, le sexisme, le capacitisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie ou la xénophobie.
  • Pas de publicités / Pas de spam.
  • Pas de pornographie.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
can@sh.itjust.works
261
Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize (newsthump.com)
submitted 4 months ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/theonion@sh.itjust.works
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Donald Trump has once again been cruelly snubbed by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, despite what he insists was an “incredible” year of personal achievements in the field of “peace, which is very strong right now, the strongest peace anyone’s ever seen.”

The committee shocked the world by awarding the prize to someone who had not, in fact, threatened to annex Greenland after mistaking it for a golf resort, nor suggested using the US military to disperse protesters exercising their constitutional right to free speech.

“We had to draw a line somewhere,” explained one weary member of the Nobel committee. “Traditionally, the Peace Prize goes to people who promote peace, not to people who deploy tear gas so they can wave at a Bible.” [...]

Archived: Wayback Machine

top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean is this even satire?

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 10 points 4 months ago

I keep seeing these types of comments implying, in various different ways, that satire is only satire if it's fictional. Satire does not have to be fictional.

(Although this post probably isn't the best place to bring this up, given that this article is largely fiction-based-on-reality rather than straight factual)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The winner's first Twitter post after receiving the prize was "Mr. President Trump I love you. My people yearn for freedom! Please begin bombing Caracas immediately!"

This, a week after a flotilla of baby food was turned back and its participants tortured for days, just off the coast of Gaza.

The Peace Prize is a fucking joke.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 8 points 4 months ago

The winner's first Twitter post after receiving the prize was "Mr. President Trump I love you. My people yearn for freedom! Please begin bombing Caracas immediately!"

I can appreciate the irony of this being a comment on satire, but if you're not more clear about how you phrase or contextualize it, then even the people who look at where this is being posted will actually think the first half of your comment is true.

https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/maria-corina-machado-makes-first-x-post-after-winning-nobel-peace-prize-dedicates-award-to-donald-trump-and-suffering-people-of-venezuela-7153322.html

Maria Corina Machado, who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, made her first post on X after the announcement, dedicating the honour to US President Donald Trump and the people of Venezuela. "This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom," she wrote. "We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy." Machado added, "I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!"

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, Kissinger got a Nobel Peace Prize, so I wouldn't have been surprised if Trump won.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Considering the ridiculous reality we are living in, I'll be surprised if he doesn't get it.

[–] Taokan@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The fact he was even considered in the running has emptied any admiration I have for Nobel peace prize winners.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Really? I think he should get nominated every year so he gets his hopes up before they are brutally quashed in front of his very eyes. Then he throws a tantrum and he gets brutally mocked.

You know he wants it. He desperately wants it. Obama got one. It makes him seethe with rage that he doesn’t get one.