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TIME's Person of the Year (2020)

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  • MikM Offline
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    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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    • 89th8 Offline
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      Even before opening this thread I presumed it’ll be the frontline workers or Fauci.

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      • George KG Offline
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        Screen Shot 2020-12-10 at 3.54.07 PM.png

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • AxtremusA Axtremus

          The shortlist: https://time.com/5919489/time-person-of-the-year-shortlist-2020/

          • Trump
          • Biden
          • Frontline health care workers and Fauci
          • The movement for racial justice

          The "essential workers" have already won the reader poll, but TIME has not finalize their choice for the Person of the Year for 2020.

          Whom would you pick?

          Not sure if TIME ever considered a microorganism for Person of the Year, but I would have added SARS-CoV-2 to the list. There is nothing that shaped the year 2020 more than SARS-CoV-2.

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          @Axtremus said in TIME's Person of the Year (2020):

          There is nothing that shaped the year 2020 more than SARS-CoV-2.

          The virus didn't shape anything

          Mr. Trump's heroic reaction to it shaped fake news

          And the person of the year is the fake news publisher

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          • L Offline
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            Loki
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            The vaccine makers unfathomable warp speed. Duh.

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            • 89th8 Offline
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              Biden/Harris.

              Ugh.

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                To be honest with you, Diane, I'm surprised.

                Please love yourself.

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                • jodiJ Offline
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                  It should have been the health care frontline workers.

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                  • jodiJ jodi

                    It should have been the health care frontline workers.

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                    @jodi said in TIME's Person of the Year (2020):

                    It should have been the health care frontline workers.

                    +1

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                    • 89th8 Offline
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                      What a wimpy selection. Even BLM, and my disagreements with them, would’ve been more appropriate. But it should’ve been Covid related, like front line workers. 2020 will not be remembered in history books as the “Biden” year.

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                      • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                        To be honest with you, Diane, I'm surprised.

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                        @Aqua-Letifer said in TIME's Person of the Year (2020):

                        To be honest with you, Diane, I'm surprised.

                        Lol nice reference

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                        • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                          To be honest with you, Diane, I'm surprised.

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                          @Aqua-Letifer said in TIME's Person of the Year (2020):

                          To be honest with you, Diane, I'm surprised.

                          lol

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                          • 89th8 89th

                            Biden/Harris.

                            Ugh.

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                            @89th said in TIME's Person of the Year (2020):

                            Biden/Harris.

                            Ugh.

                            It’s called being at the scene of the accident.

                            The participation award makes it to Time.

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                              Bizarre that time did not pick this.

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                                This ranks almost as ridiculous as Obama's Nobel Prize. Their big accomplishments are, the way I see it:

                                1. Oldest man to become president
                                2. First Indian, Jamacain, African-American, Woman of Color as VEEP
                                3. Their color is not orange
                                4. First person to drop out of the race before any primary as VEEP
                                5. They're not orange
                                6. They're not Trump

                                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                  TIME lost relevance years ago. Time for the trash heap of history.

                                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    What Jolly said. We only pay attention to them one day a year.

                                    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                                      As with the Oscars, thousands of man-hours will be spent explaining why nobody cares about this award, by people who care so little that they spend thousands of hours doing so.

                                      And they'll sell magazines.

                                      I was only joking

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                                        Ben Shapiro tweets: "And yet the word "person" is singular. They just can't bear to leave Kamala off. Get a food taster, Joe Biden."

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        • George KG George K

                                          Ben Shapiro tweets: "And yet the word "person" is singular. They just can't bear to leave Kamala off. Get a food taster, Joe Biden."

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                                          @George-K said in TIME's Person of the Year (2020):

                                          Ben Shapiro tweets: "And yet the word "person" is singular. They just can't bear to leave Kamala off. Get a food taster, Joe Biden."

                                          Every time Biden and Kamala talk together watch the dynamic. He clearly signals partnership and defers to her, he knows the playbook is that she is heir apparent right out of the gate.

                                          Biden always wanted to be President, the man in charge. That instinct will reveal itself over time and privately it will eat in to him when it’s clear he has to run everything by her. He may inadvertently smack her down when the voice inside his head leaks out.

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