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highplainsdem

(63,087 posts) Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:06 PM Mar 2018

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Hashtag from Laurence Tribe: #NobelPeacePrizeParklandKids

Tribe was responding to this tweet from Roland Scahill:

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The kids from Parkland should seriously get the Nobel Peace Prize for this movement

Tribe's tweet:

Link to tweet

YES! Start a hashtag #NobelPeacePrizeParklandKids!

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Hashtag from Laurence Tribe: #NobelPeacePrizeParklandKids (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2018 OP

Definitely. democratisphere Mar 2018 #1

#NobelPeacePrizeParklandKids! Achilleaze Mar 2018 #2

Hear! Hear! Peace, not guns blake2012 Mar 2018 #3

K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Mar 2018 #4

President Obama, as a Noble Peace Prize Winner, has the avebury Mar 2018 #5

I hope he will. highplainsdem Mar 2018 #8

K&R CelticWinter Mar 2018 #6

I don't think they would particularly want it. And that is not a bad thing. dameatball Mar 2018 #7

I'd guess that most if not all who've won the prize didn't particularly want it, but did deserve it. highplainsdem Mar 2018 #9

I never thought of that, but probably true. dameatball Mar 2018 #10

All well and good. But our world is not at Peace and hasn't been for decades. WAR WAR WAR YOHABLO Mar 2018 #11

It never has been 'at peace' and never will be. pangaia Mar 2018 #16

Yes!!! RightiswrongTn Mar 2018 #12

Fuck yes! SunSeeker Mar 2018 #13

If only... Fritz Walter Mar 2018 #14

Absolutely Ferrets are Cool Mar 2018 #15

Sure works for me. They've earned it the hard way. calimary Mar 2018 #17

They certainly should. They are the conscience of America right now... CTyankee Mar 2018 #18

Yes! God I hope someone nominates them! nt kydo Mar 2018 #19

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

1. Definitely.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:08 PM

Mar 2018

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

2. #NobelPeacePrizeParklandKids!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:09 PM

Mar 2018

blake2012

(1,294 posts)

3. Hear! Hear! Peace, not guns

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:10 PM

Mar 2018

tblue37

(68,449 posts)

4. K&R for visibility. nt

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:11 PM

Mar 2018

avebury

(11,201 posts)

5. President Obama, as a Noble Peace Prize Winner, has the

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:13 PM

Mar 2018

ability to nominate them for next award.

highplainsdem

(63,087 posts)

8. I hope he will.

Reply to avebury (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:28 PM

Mar 2018

CelticWinter

(1,399 posts)

6. K&R

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:16 PM

Mar 2018

dameatball

(7,671 posts)

7. I don't think they would particularly want it. And that is not a bad thing.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:17 PM

Mar 2018

Bigger fish to fry.

highplainsdem

(63,087 posts)

9. I'd guess that most if not all who've won the prize didn't particularly want it, but did deserve it.

Reply to dameatball (Reply #7)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:48 PM

Mar 2018

They wouldn't deserve it unless they had bigger fish to fry.

dameatball

(7,671 posts)

10. I never thought of that, but probably true.

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #9)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:50 PM

Mar 2018

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)

11. All well and good. But our world is not at Peace and hasn't been for decades. WAR WAR WAR

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 04:20 PM

Mar 2018

pangaia

(24,324 posts)

16. It never has been 'at peace' and never will be.

Reply to YOHABLO (Reply #11)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:05 PM

Mar 2018

All a person can do is try to find his/her own 'peace,' and then try to spread it.

RightiswrongTn

(92 posts)

12. Yes!!!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 04:26 PM

Mar 2018

Yes yes yes yes yes yes

SunSeeker

(58,374 posts)

13. Fuck yes!

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Sat Mar 24, 2018, 05:10 PM

Mar 2018

Fritz Walter

(4,373 posts)

14. If only...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 05:17 PM

Mar 2018

• because it would make Cadet Bone Spur’s BP skyrocket, perhaps leading to a massive MI, to which the Secret Service agents would respond... pensively, reluctantly, half-heartedly, and — in light of recent news — with chest-compressions only (no mouth-to-mouth). Seriously, would you?
• because it would send an international condemnation to the NRA and everyone on its payroll. As if that would matter here, but in other nations it would speak volumes.
So I say “do it!”
Fuck Drumpf and fuck the NRA, with the tools they use to ream out the barrels of their favorite killing tools, unlubricated!

Ferrets are Cool

(23,047 posts)

15. Absolutely

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Sat Mar 24, 2018, 05:55 PM

Mar 2018

calimary

(90,775 posts)

17. Sure works for me. They've earned it the hard way.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:07 PM

Mar 2018

CTyankee

(68,471 posts)

18. They certainly should. They are the conscience of America right now...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 09:21 PM

Mar 2018

I find them lovely and wonderful...

kydo

(2,679 posts)

19. Yes! God I hope someone nominates them! nt

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 09:27 PM

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