Time's Person of the Year

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The Fucking PROTESTER.

Way to go America - are you kidding me?

This whole country is fucked.

I know it includes other protesters around the world - but it's mostly this "occupy" shit.
 
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Good choice. Person of the year is meant not to praise but to recognize newsworthyness, and this year has been characterized by protest. Osama Bin Laden should have been person of the year in 2001.
 
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SML said:
Good choice. Person of the year is meant not to praise but to recognize newsworthyness, and this year has been characterized by protest. Osama Bin Laden should have been person of the year in 2001.
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I'm not going to start an argument.

There are so many other people that could have made it.

Giffords, Jobs, Obama, Elizabeth Taylor, Regis Philbin... So many other choices.

Fuck the protesters - nothing is being accomplished.
 
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Like you said in the OP, this is not confined to Occupy. Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Egypt? In comparison the alternatives you put forward (Regis? What the fuck?) are inconsequential.
 
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SML said:
Like you said in the OP, this is not confined to Occupy. Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Egypt? In comparison the alternatives you put forward (Regis? What the fuck?) are inconsequential.
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Bottom line. I think it's a poor choice.

Thought you would have skimmed over Regis, lol.

But the other people I suggested are just as influential as people protesting.
 
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should the person of the year be the media for marginalizing the protesters I guess?
 
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Scuz39 said:
should the person of the year be the media for marginalizing the protesters I guess?
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That's an interesting idea. But the media would be hesitant to draw the spotlight on itself for obvious reasons.
 
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OMG FUCK THE PROTESTOR

Time magazine means fucking nothing, who gives a shit who's person of the year.
 
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The 3 ladies that jointly hold the Nobel Peace Prize this year rates higher than 'Protestor'.

While protesting was part of the actions they took, there is more to their work than that.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work."

Karman is only 32! She's my person of the year by a country mile.
 
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TonK said:
Giffords, Jobs, Obama, Elizabeth Taylor, Regis Philbin... So many other choices.
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:spock:

Gabrielle Giffords? Thats a decent choice. but at the end of the day an attempted murder doesnt really vault you to person of the yearness

But Obama? lol.

Elizabeth Taylor and Steve Jobs did nothing special this year except die. May they RIP, but person of the year? Why?

Regis? lolwut?
 
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman
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Who? Who? Who?

Again, it's not about merit, it's about newsworthiness and impact on the global conversation.
 
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Who? Who? Who?

Again, it's not about merit, it's about newsworthiness and impact on the global conversation.
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Does NPR not broadcast where you live? ;^)

In all seriousness tho, I see your point. It's a sad commentary on the state of reporting that these three haven't made the mainstream news more.

Many of my friends/ former coworkers are Liberians, so Mdm Sirleaf is definitely apart of the 'conversation' in Upper Darby PA.
 
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Take a survey of your coworkers. Without explaining who she is, ask how they feel about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Record your results. Now ask how they feel about the protests.

Edit: Now this conversation looks like it's occuring sideways in time.
 
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Take a survey of your coworkers. Without explaining who she is, ask how they feel about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Record your results. Now ask how they feel about the protests.
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I'll have to bow out of your survey. I work from home w/ a two & a three year old. Their vote for person of the year is Elmo.

Your point is taken, however.
 
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Person of the fucking year, SNKP for doing something right for once in a decade
 
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Person of the fucking year, SNKP for doing something right for once in a decade
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Much as I am behind that sentiment, a corporation is not a person. SCOTUS ruling was specious.
 
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