I'm Time's person of the year of 2006. Do you think that gives me a pass or something? /s
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Time magazine "Person of the year" doesn't necessarily mean "good" it means "pivotal to change". The "change" may not be a good change.
Hitler, Stalin, Khrushchev, Kissinger, Ted Turner, Newt Gingrich, Putin, Zuckerberg, and Turmp have all been Person of the Year.
Bin Laden was supposed to be person of the year in 2001 but there was backlash from idiots that didn't know what it meant.
Can we stop giving idiots powerful voices please?
I'll be honest, this is the first I'm hearing that Time's person of the year isn't a celebration of a given year's most positively-influential person. Granted, I don't read Time, but I don't think it's all that common knowledge that "person of the year" isn't always a compliment. I mean, I've seen several of "___ of the year" awards, and most ended with applauding and rewarding the winner; if Time wants people who don't read it to know that its award doesn't follow common conventions, it should probably title it something to obviously differentiate itself.
Every time I see these posts "dunking" on Elon on Twitter...
I just can't help but think if everyone who disagreed with him just left, him and his supporters would just turn on each other.
The only reason they're there is to argue, no matter who else is there, they're gonna argue.
Reasonable people being there just give them someone to unite against.
Don't give them the common enemy, and they'll fight each other, and be less unified for the next election.
Anyone still spending time on twitter (regardless of their personal politics) is just helping trump.
They won't even fight each other, they'll get bored and leave. We saw it with the donald subreddit when it got quarantined.
If you want to dunk on him, just tweet to Elon "later loser" and delete your fucking account.
I prefer "bye, poop face".
I'd have to have created a Twitter account at some point for that...
But if someone did have one, they should just delete it.
A steady stream of farewells would give them something to unite over and talk about.
Just fucking delete the account.
I don't know why everyone has the obsession with "winning" by getting a last word in like that.
If you want to piss people like this off, just ignore them. They're literally throwing tantrums for attention, and people really think giving them attention is a positive.
You think "later loser" would piss Elmo off, but that's what he wants.
Elon would fade into obscurity if the media stopped covering his attention whoring.
TImes described Hitler as "the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today." They didn't think he was a good person
Stalin was 1939 & 1942
Putin in 2007
Trump in 2016
And Musk was 2021, not a year ago. I guess the screenshot could be a couple years old.
The award is about people who have impact, not whether that impact is positive or negative.
See that's the beauty of cropping out the timestamp. You can get mad no matter what year it is!
"Person of the Year" should be renamed "Most Chaotic Person of the Year"
I mean that's literally what the award is for.
a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year"
It could be...but it's supposed to be the most newsworthy/discussed person. Doesn't necessarily have to be for negative reasons. Greta Thunberg was Times POTY in 2019. Last year was Taylor Swift and before that was Zelensky.
I knew