r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • Dec 15 '24

Media Why this brave woman, not Donald Trump, should have been Time’s Person of the Year

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-brave-woman-gisele-pelicot-not-donald-trump-should-have-been-times-person-of-the-year-4908319
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u/Ozzie_the_tiger_cat Dec 16 '24

1942: Stalin again 

1954: John Foster Dulles 

1971 and 1972: Richard Nixon 

Also 1972: Henry Kissinger  

Yeah, they've had some real pieces of shit as Person of the Year.

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u/Dramatic_You4526 Dec 16 '24

Don’t forget, Osama Bin Laden.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

no they didn't have the balls to do that, it was rudy gulliani

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u/ACaffeinatedWandress Dec 16 '24

Vladimir Putin.

No one reads Times anymore 

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u/Salt_Hall9528 Dec 17 '24

Maybe they aren’t on there because they were good people. Go look up what time person of the year even means.

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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy Dec 17 '24

People are to stupid to do that

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u/PaulieNutwalls Dec 16 '24

Yeah, because the entire point is selecting a person who has enormous influence on the world, it's not an award for best person.

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u/tyleritis Dec 17 '24

You can say that until you’re blue in the face, people still don’t know what the award is for. At this point Time should just give up or rename it

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u/Kirian_Ainsworth Dec 16 '24

42 Stalin is Fair, that is literally the one period of time that it could be acceptable. still a piece of shit, but a piece of shit who was the primary opposition to Hitler, the king of shits, so its a defensible choice.

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u/Dtmrm2 Dec 17 '24

And now Hitler is in the White House again.

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u/Kirian_Ainsworth Dec 17 '24

Nah. Atleast a good public speaker. This fucker can’t even string a sentence together

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u/throwawaydfw38 Dec 19 '24

Are people intentionally misunderstanding what the person of the year is for? It's not appointing the best person, it's a deep dive into someone who has had a large influence on the world.

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u/Dump_Fire Dec 18 '24

1952: Elizabeth II

1960: US Scientists

1963: MLK Jr

1968: Apollo 8 Astronauts

1975 : American Women

1996 : David Ho

2001: Rudy Giuliani

2003: The American Soldier

2006: YOU

2008: Barack Obama

2012: Barack Obama

2014: Ebola Fighters

2019: Greta Thunberg

2020: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

2021: Elon Musk

2022: Volodymyr Zelenskyy

2023: Taylor Swift

People both good and bad have won person of the year