This is meaningless, pretty much anyone can be nominated. All it takes is a letter sent by any professor of history, social science, law, philosophy, or religion.
A Nobel Prize nomination is the academic equivalent of “Here, have an upvote”.
Is it the Norwegian guy?
Edit: Yes it’s the Norwegian guy. He does this every year. Also his nominations are invalid. You’re not allowed to publicise that you’ve nominated someone. Nominations are secret, they never announce that someone who was nominated “didn’t win”. I wish people would stop feeding this troll every year.
So what your saying is if I was a professor I could make bank nominating people for a fee?
Anybody can win the award as well. These awards are meaningless.
Downvoters, explain Obama, please.
Why was this award ever actually considered prestigious
A nomination is meaningless, it’s not at all the same thing as receiving the award. There are 351 nominees this year, and the requirements for being nominated are almost non-existent. Even an associate professor at any college can nominate whoever they want. The one and only criteria for nomination is that a person with recognized credentials submitted the nomination. That’s literally it.
Stalin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_nominated_for_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize
Apparently Czar Nicholas II also got nominated.
Ooh, and Emperor Wilhelm II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor
Despite strengthening Germany’s position as a great power by building a powerful navy and promoting scientific innovation, Wilhelm’s tactless public statements and erratic foreign policy greatly antagonized the international community and are considered by many to have substantially contributed to the fall of the German Empire. In 1914, his diplomatic brinksmanship culminated in Germany’s guarantee of military support to Austria-Hungary during the July Crisis which plunged all of Europe into World War I.
I nominate Elmo.
And fettuccine alfredo.
If I had enough wealth/power I would definitely nominate a bunch of random people just to show how easy it is
You don’t need wealth or power to nominate someone. Quite the opposite. You can submit a nomination if you’re a university professor.
Yeah, being a professor gives you that power. I should have said authority.
I nominate Uncle Phil and Cesar Salad
Gee, biased headline much?
Wat.
The only one who even remotely deserves the peace prize is Assange.
The rest have all been sowing more division among lines than bringing people together. At least Wikileaks was invented to inform the public about shady shit going on in government.
That said it’s not necessarily been a good thing as wars can easily happen directly as a result of leaked documents. Every government has secrets. And sometimes rooting out corruption can be pretty damned violent.
However Assange never meant to sow discord, only to inform people of problems and issues that were kept under wraps - the people deserved to know this information, even if it resulted in violent rioting.
I’ve read that Assange’s WikiLeaks blocked any leaks which would weaken Russia for at-least a decade.
Which makes WikiLeaks part of the Russian global-cyberwarfare operation.
Beware one’s “allies”.
Check everything for integrity, before truly-trusting it/them.
It is possible what I’d read was itself disinformation, but WikiLeaks sure as hell was systematically helping the Kremlin’s puppy Trump when election-time came around, back when it was Clinton/Trump, and that, itself, is evidence of helping Russia’s design…
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Maybe I remember wrong, but wasn’t he coordinating releases of leaked dnc data with Roger Stone? I’m gonna assume anyone dealing with Roger Stone is not on the up and up…
While that is possible. Assange definitely was all for sewing discord. His assist of trump in 2016. Wasn’t necessarily strictly tied to Russia. More a personal axe he was grinding against Obama and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. He personally went after her and the DNC. It was purely Petty, selfish and in no way to expose or bring corruption to light. It was all in service of his ego.
Huh, I didn’t know that. Well that’s fucked.
I guess it makes some sense though - you’d want some form of backing if you’re going against the establishment, so why not the enemy of the one you’re going against?
I already thought that none of them really deserved the prize, but I guess I probably shouldn’t have been ranking them.
