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by myrmidon 251 days ago
If you wanted to avoid "misnominations", you'd be forced to wait until the career of the nominee is over (meaning in many cases: award it posthumously).

But the Nobel price explicitly tries to avoid that; hindsight is always gonna be better.

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Yeah. I'm just okay special casing "against" heads of state.