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26th November 2017, 08:56 AM | #1 |
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Predict Time's "Person of the Year"!
On December 6th, Time will announce 2017's "Person of the Year". Trump tweeted the other day that they told him he'll be it a second year in a row, and that he declined. Time informed him that he is mistaken.
So who will it be? Remember that this is not the Nobel Prize for greatness, nor a polularity contest. Here is a list of all past PotY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_P...ns_of_the_Year You will see that often the US President-elect is chosen - this happened with Trump in 2016, but also Obama (2008 and 2012), Bush II (2000 and 2004), Clinton (1992), Reagan (1980), Carter (1976) - obviously not in response to great achievements as President but merely for having won the election. You will also see that it isn't always the nicest person who wins - Hitler (1938), Stalin (1939 and 1942) and Khomeini (1979) all were PotY, as well as dictators such as Haile Selassie, Nikita Khrushchev, Anwar Sadat, Deng Xiaoping, Yuri Andropov or Vladimir Putin. Also three Popes. Sometimes, they elect groups, some of them rather unspecific/unnamed, such as "The Peacemakers" (1993), "The Whistleblowers" (2002), "You" (i.e. everybody who contributes content to the internet, 2006), "The Protester" (2011), "The Ebola Fighters" (2014). |
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26th November 2017, 09:08 AM | #2 |
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And here are my favourites:
1. Xi Jinping, President of China He has consolidated power over China during the last 5 years like no one else has since Deng Xiaoping, is young enough at 53 years to see a long reign, and with the voluntary decline of the USA into irrelevance has emerged in 2017 as the de-facto leader of the World. 2. "The Fact-Checkers" In the age of Web 3.0, social media bots, fake news, this new type of journalism may be saving us from totalitarianism 3. Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia While clearly inferior in power to both Xi Jinping and DJT, he is nonetheless the person in the world whose star has risen like none other, having been appointed as Crown Prince only in June 2017, and already having enough power inside the nation with the world's greated oil reserves to stage a sweeping coup and push an aggressive foreign policy. |
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26th November 2017, 09:37 AM | #3 |
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I also declined a second person of the year.
However, like when I won it will be a group award. I think it will be all the women who have come forward and outed publicly the institutional sexual harassment in this country. |
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26th November 2017, 09:46 AM | #4 |
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Yeah I see another "Group" getting Person of the Year, perhaps with a symbolic representative(s).
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26th November 2017, 10:21 AM | #5 |
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Juli Briskman.
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26th November 2017, 10:43 AM | #6 |
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Putin for a second time.
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26th November 2017, 10:48 AM | #7 |
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They picked the three whistleblowers in 2002: Sherron Watkins of Enron, Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom. I'm hoping they choose the women who exposed sexual assault and rape this year. And I hope it has a bigger impact than celebrating the whistleblowers from 2002.
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26th November 2017, 10:53 AM | #8 |
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26th November 2017, 10:54 AM | #9 |
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26th November 2017, 11:52 AM | #10 |
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Either Xi, or some "group", yes.
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26th November 2017, 12:16 PM | #11 |
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Jared Kushner.
Everything else is Fake News. |
26th November 2017, 12:26 PM | #12 |
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Inanimate Carbon Rod!
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26th November 2017, 12:29 PM | #13 |
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I'm sure whoever it is, it will be someone who is as big a P.O.S. as Trump. Or an Inanimate Carbon Rod.
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26th November 2017, 12:35 PM | #14 |
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The people who attended the woman's march.
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26th November 2017, 12:41 PM | #15 |
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"Fake News", both the real and the imagined.
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27th November 2017, 05:32 AM | #17 |
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Why not that CNN apple?
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27th November 2017, 05:35 AM | #18 |
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My sensible suggestion would be Xi Jinping.
But if I was in charge the temptation to choose someone like say Sessions or Hillary Clinton would be almost irresistible! |
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27th November 2017, 05:43 AM | #19 |
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Trump
Xi Jinping Assad Whoever punched Richard Spencer The redhead cashier at my local supermarket |
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27th November 2017, 05:46 AM | #20 |
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27th November 2017, 06:41 AM | #21 |
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I kind of hope that the selection is not directly about Trump - neither Trump himself or his clique, nor an overt Trump opponent. Xi would fit the bill perfectly. So would "The women that spoke out" against sexual harrassment.
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27th November 2017, 08:43 AM | #23 |
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I agree that the women-who-spoke-out would be an excellent choice.
Another influential and news-making "type" in the U.S. this past year: the mass-shooter. I was pretty much convinced it was going to be Trump again. If the decision went solely with the most-reported-on it would clearly have to be. But thinking about it, maybe not. Despite and apart from being constantly reported on, how influential has Trump actually been in 2017? He hasn't led his party in any new or successful direction (the last election results suggest quite the contrary) and he hasn't accomplished much actual change for good or ill. |
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27th November 2017, 08:55 AM | #24 |
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27th November 2017, 09:16 AM | #25 |
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It will be the women who spoke out. No matter what they were planning a few weeks ago, this year has taken a dramatic turn.
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27th November 2017, 09:50 AM | #26 |
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Esteemed sailor, explorer and survivalist Jennifer Appel.
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27th November 2017, 10:27 AM | #27 |
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If I were Time I'd pick Hillary Clinton just for the reaction from Trump.
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27th November 2017, 12:16 PM | #32 |
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I somehow wonder if TIME is frantically getting a new issue put together with a new POTY after having previously selected Trump!
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27th November 2017, 12:19 PM | #33 |
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Robert Mueller perhaps?
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27th November 2017, 12:25 PM | #34 |
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Hell, I'd go along with it just to see Hillary's reaction.
"I came >this close< to being POTUS, and all I got was TIME's POTY instead." But the way people talk about it, you'd think TIME's pick is more important than the Nobel Peace Prize. You get all excited about it, but the best you can come up with is, "hopefully it will annoy Donald Trump." Frankly, I hope that the people who are really doing some good in this world get recognized by someone much more worthwhile than TIME Magazine. |
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27th November 2017, 01:09 PM | #37 |
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Besides not playing much football, and stirring up ineffectual controversy, what has Kaepernick done this year? Like, on a Vladimir Putin / Kim Jong Un level of impact?
What was his cause? BLM? How much have they advanced this year, as a result of his "activism"? Hell, lately even Corey Feldman seems to be getting more traction than Colin Kaepernick. |
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