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Merkel’s a good second choice. Should have been Bakr al-Baghdadi. That asshole’s done more to affect "the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.” But Time’s afraid to pick the real winner after getting so much grief for bin Laden in 2001.
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Mam, you deserve to be person of the decade for the way in which you have received hundreds of thousands fleeing conflict.
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Out of all the people in the world who are affecting our lives in significant ways, they put Caitlyn Jenner on the list?
No wonder TIME has shrunk to a thin, utterly useless magazine that’s only read by bored dental patients waiting for their appointment.
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A great choice. Her actions in taking in refugees in recent months showed both her toughness and compassion. Germany has come a long way since Trump’s model led that country. Perhaps Chancellor Merkel will send Trump a mustache…a la Der Fuehrer.
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When was the last time a famous German leader was on the cover? What a magazine!
Whew! Could have been Donald Dump.
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As a reflection of the extreme dumbing down of magazines, one only need look at Popular Science Monthly. Compare the early years–or those of the start of the 20th century–to the modern. Once it was written to stretch the adult reader knowledge and perspective, now it’s written for the attention deficit eight year old–and that’s being charitable.
“Merkel, who has led Germany since 2005, beat out a diverse short list of finalists: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the movement Black Lives Matter, Iran President Hassan Rouhani and Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick.”
I’m sorry, but did someone think it was “worst person of the year”? That list is terrible.
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Screw Germany (Merkel) for its hypocritical approach to Greece. And the person whom Time jilted was not Trump but Bernie Sanders, who was the readers’ choice going away.
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I was going to say something rather snide and utterly impolite and impolitic in German, but I don’t think this is worth the milligram of effort it would require of me in trying to type it on an English keyboard. So I’ll just come right out and ask in English (the gutter language for modern times)
This is the best they could do?
Time is just about as sad as Merkel. The only difference is that the world ignores Time, and it listens to Merkel.
The world ought to ignore them both. It would be a small step in making the globe we share a better place to live.
Graciousness. Thy name is Trump. What a buffoon!
Time’s criteria is for the most influential Person of the Year, not the best contribution. That list certainly includes influential people, even if many are sociopaths and other negative descriptors.
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Glad to see a strong woman leader chosen as person of the year. May other would-be leaders observe and take the lesson: a leader has to invoke moral authority for her/his positions, and then stand her ground.
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I’m good with Ms. Merkel. At least it’s not Kim Davia.
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Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” and how that selection is chosen is more hype (read: sales promotion) than anything else and akin to “The Gong Show.” It’s basically the same as People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” except it has an odd mix of celebrities, politicians, business people, world leaders, and terrorists. I mean, what is the point? Journalism: May it rest in peace…
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Just thought I’d throw out how awful the actual art is - Clearly a digitaly-painted photograph and a really poor job of that. They should have used the monkey-poo filter.
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Thoughtful choice by TIME. Next headline: “Donald Trump sues TIME for $500 million”.
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Thank goodness it wasn’t Trump!
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Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves praised Mrs. Merkel’s leadership a few days ago:
“When I talk about absence of leadership, she’s one of the few people in European politics who’s doing more than sticking her finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing,” he said.
“Clearly, she’s taken a risk on the refugees issue. But why do you have elected politicians? If you just do politics by poll numbers, then a priori you’re not going to get leadership.”
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