TIME's Person of the Year (2020)
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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.
wrote on 10 Dec 2020, 22:00 last edited by@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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wrote on 10 Dec 2020, 22:57 last edited by Loki 12 Oct 2020, 22:58
The vaccine makers unfathomable warp speed. Duh.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 03:52 last edited by
Biden/Harris.
Ugh.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 03:59 last edited by
To be honest with you, Diane, I'm surprised.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 04:07 last edited by
It should have been the health care frontline workers.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 05:46 last edited by
@jodi said in TIME's Person of the Year (2020):
It should have been the health care frontline workers.
+1
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 07:32 last edited by
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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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To be honest with you, Diane, I'm surprised.
wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 07:32 last edited by@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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To be honest with you, Diane, I'm surprised.
wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 09:23 last edited by@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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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 12:09 last edited by
@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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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 13:09 last edited by
This ranks almost as ridiculous as Obama's Nobel Prize. Their big accomplishments are, the way I see it:
- Oldest man to become president
- First
Indian,Jamacain,African-American, Woman of Color as VEEP - Their color is not orange
- First person to drop out of the race before any primary as VEEP
- They're not orange
- They're not Trump
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 13:16 last edited by
TIME lost relevance years ago. Time for the trash heap of history.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 13:21 last edited by
What Jolly said. We only pay attention to them one day a year.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 13:22 last edited by Doctor Phibes 12 Nov 2020, 13:22
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.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 14:13 last edited by
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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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."
wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 14:18 last edited by@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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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 17:25 last edited by
So half the people in the country hate Time a little more.
But the other half might buy the magazine.
Time is probably ahead on the transaction.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 17:58 last edited by
If you look at the list of past winners of the Time Man of the Year award, the winning presidential candidate has been the winner every election year since 2000 and often before that. President Trump was 2016, President Obama was for 2008 and 2012, President Bush 2000 and 2004 - a lot of imagination there at Time.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2020, 18:06 last edited by
TIME is out of new ideas!