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Home Front: Culture Wars
Guess who's TIME's person of the year
2019-12-11
[RedState] TIME decided to go with the underage environmental activist Greta Thunberg. According to the TIME Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal, the choice was easy to make since we’re all going to die soon and Thunberg was the one who rallied people around the globe to take the concern for environmental disaster to a new level.
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Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#14  

And Stalin.
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365   2019-12-11 22:46  

#13  

Time also named Hitler.
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365   2019-12-11 22:44  

#12  Merry Christmas you stinkin white polluters.
Posted by: Jack Salami    2019-12-11 21:19  

#11  Lex, I think it sounds better in the original Swedish "en stygg brat"
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2019-12-11 20:51  

#10  Greta = uma pirralha impertinente
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-11 19:34  

#9  And no irony lost on the immense amount of resources necessary to manufacture and distribute these magazines to have 99% of them thrown away to make room for the next print.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-12-11 17:12  

#8  But then, who reads Timeâ„¢ magazine in the Internet Age?

Doctor offices too lazy to cancel the subscription? Soy Boi collector's item?

Anymore it is subliminal messaging via cover to those at checkout lanes or going trough airports, but even that is changing. Only thing left is to auto load ads like pop-ups on peoples' PEDs as they walk within blue tooth range, but I don't think they are desperate or/and stupid enough to do that. Yet.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-12-11 17:10  

#7  
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-11 16:27  

#6  TIME is worth about US$1– now, right? Clearly this is a bid for attention in the hope that those not disgusted will fork over the price of a subscription in solidarity.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-12-11 16:02  

#5  * clownification
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-11 15:53  

#4  Yet another chapter in the decline / fall / utter cliwnifucation of the US media.

Since it's inception TIME's Man Person of the Year was selected according to a clear, simple, universally-understood criterion: the individual who for better or worse dominated the news cycle and thus, in media-world and with the perspective of the last twelve months, most significantly influenced the world.

By this simple criterion TIME chose and defended its choice of world-historical personages such as Adolf Hitler and the Ayatollah Khomeini.

The blindingly obvious choice - if TIME had any integrity left - for 2019 would be Donald J. Trump.

A Eurocentric choice could arguably be Boris Johnson or even Erdogan.

But not the spoiled brat who not only has had no influence on anything whatsoever but has not even influenced more than a couple of media cycles out of hundreds.

TIME = complete joke
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-11 15:53  

#3  *Barf* Expected from them, but *barf*. But then, who reads Timeâ„¢ magazine in the Internet Age?
Posted by: magpie   2019-12-11 15:44  

#2  Naturally, big money being poured into making her a Joan of Arc type figurehead/mascot for the more violent and aggressive Antifa 2:Extinction Revolution.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-12-11 15:15  

#1  Pirralha
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-12-11 14:21  

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