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Person of the Year 2011; Time Megazine
Topic Started: Dec 14 2011, 09:16 AM (252 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Time megazine's Person of the Year for 2011 is ...

"The Protestor."

Source: http://www.time.com/time/person-of-the-year/2011/

I think it's a great choice, considering the "Arab Spring" and its ramifications.
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jon-nyc
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I thought it a weak attempt to include everyone.

It should have been Mohomad Bouazizi.

Or Seal Team 6.
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jon-nyc
Dec 14 2011, 09:19 AM
Or Seal Team 6.
Seal Team 6 (and all those who enabled them to do what they did) did the Unites States great service, but for impact on the trajectory of world history, "Arab Spring" still takes the cake.
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Hence my first choice. Trying to inclde the Occupy Sesame Street crowd and the Teabaggers was pathetic.


I understand they have to sell magazines, and Bouazizi wouldn't do that in the US. So they could at least have chosen Seal Team 6, that would have sold magazines.

Oh - and Bin Laden dramatically changed affected the course of history - certainly taking him out was important too.
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jon-nyc
Dec 14 2011, 09:28 AM
Trying to inclde the Occupy Sesame Street crowd and the Teabaggers was pathetic.
That I agree.
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jon-nyc
Dec 14 2011, 09:28 AM
Bin Laden dramatically changed affected the course of history
But Time didn't have the balls to name him Person of the Year then.
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Being "Man of the Year" is not always a good thing:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html
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George K
Dec 14 2011, 09:48 AM
Being "Man of the Year" is not always a good thing:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html
Exactly. Time had the balls to name Hitler "Man of the Year" then, but appear castrated when it's Bin Laden's turn.
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I think it's a good pick, although I disagree with Time's habit of choosing a group of people (or a website, like YouTube) for their "person".
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If you protest the choice, aren't you adding yourself to the group: "Man of the Year".
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Dec 14 2011, 01:18 PM
If you protest the choice, aren't you adding yourself to the group: "Man of the Year".
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It's getting to be like those Who's Who books that make all their money selling the books to the people in the books.
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