Board 8 > Time Person of the Year 2017 announced: "The Silence Breakers"

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/silence-breakers-metoo-movement-named-time-magazines-2017/story?id=51611010

Women who have come out against sexual harassment.
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Fucking stupid....

Given that this award is NOT supposed to be a positive but just (for better or worse)the most important person in the news it either needed to be

trump
Mueller
Trump/Mueller
Or Kaep.

That's it.
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that's people of the year not person of the year
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This award has become a joke.

- Person elected President of the United States
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Person elected President of the United States
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ninkendo posted...

that's people of the year not person of the year

That happens sometimes, last time 2014 with the Ebola Fighters.
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Nice
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Why just the women and not the men who came out against being sexually abused?

swordz9 posted...

Why just the women and not the men who came out against being sexually abused?

This is dumb to have to ask but yes it is the voices, not just women.

"The women and men who have broken their silence span all races, all income classes, all occupations and virtually all corners of the globe."

But the overwhelming majority who go through this ARE women so there is more representation for that.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

This award has become a joke.

- Person elected President of the United States
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Person elected President of the United States

I'm not sure that predictable is the same as a joke.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

This award has become a joke.

- Person elected President of the United States
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Abstract group of people representing a major news story
- Person elected President of the United States

I don't know enough about the history of the award but it seems like they have tried too hard to subvert what is expected with the selection of the groups of people
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I thought this was the obvious choice, but IIRC I predicted "The Victims."
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Whatever, I was person of the year in 2006 and you don't see me bragging all the time
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MrGreenonion posted...

Whatever, I was person of the year in 2006 and you don't see me bragging all the time

Has @Metal_DK commented on the 2006 POTY and whether it helped to kick off the Revolution?
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

MrGreenonion posted...

Whatever, I was person of the year in 2006 and you don't see me bragging all the time

Has @Metal_DK commented on the 2006 POTY and whether it helped to kick off the Revolution?

This should be Time's Post of the Year.
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It would honestly be a joke if #MeToo or something related to sexual harassment didn't win. It's been covered all throughout the year, even if it's really exploding within the last few months.
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fedorafreak posted...

It would honestly be a joke if #MeToo or something related to sexual harassment didn't win. It's been covered all throughout the year, even if it's really exploding within the last few months.

Not even CLOSE to Kaep or Mueller Trump.... literally not the same fucking ball park.
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Haha that penisface trump didn't get it. Good.
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FigureOfSpeech posted...

Haha that penisface trump didn't get it. Good.

It's not a POSITIVE award. It just means you were most talked about.
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Yep, impossible to think otherwise given just how much has exploded from people coming out with such major stories. Nobody else comes close to being as significant this year.
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CelesMyUserName posted...

Yep, impossible to think otherwise given just how much has exploded from people coming out with such major stories. Nobody else comes close to being as significant this year.

The NFL advertisers have lost FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR, and ratings are down an atonishijg 17% 1 out of every 6 people who watched the NFL last year are not this year. Even if it's not ALL Kaep's fault, unquestionably a ton of it is. Kaep has had my miles a bigger impact in the world. (For better or worse mind you [ie worse]

And unlike #Metoo which has been a thing for like a month and a half, Kaep has been the story the entire year.

I
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ninkendo posted...

that's people of the year not person of the year

meh it was a group as early as like 1950

I don't get why people care about "Person of the Year" anyway
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The NFL is a US thing and while the US is important, Time considers the impact around the world.
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This was the obvious choice. Putting Trump there would have been poison. A majority of people who are invested in politics wouldn't even be able to pick Mueller out of a lineup. Nobody outside of the US cares about American Football or generally think it's super dumb.
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charmander6000 posted...

The NFL is a US thing and while the US is important, Time considers the impact around the world.

1: That's fucking stupid. Time is a US magazine to US consumers....
2 What has Metoo caused across the world? Every name we've had come out so far was either a US athlete, movie/tv star, politician, reporter, or invoked with them in some way. All the important names have been American
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LapisLazuli posted...

This was the obvious choice. Putting Trump there would have been poison. A majority of people who are invested in politics wouldn't even be able to pick Mueller out of a lineup. Nobody outside of the US cares about American Football or generally think it's super dumb.

They gave it to Hitler. It doesn't matter if it's poison.
They gave it to the Watergate prosecutor as well so being able to be seen in a lineup doesn't matter.
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LapisLazuli posted...

A majority of people who are invested in politics wouldn't even be able to pick Mueller out of a lineup.

Mueller POTY 2018
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SSJBKK20Vegito posted...

CelesMyUserName posted...

Yep, impossible to think otherwise given just how much has exploded from people coming out with such major stories. Nobody else comes close to being as significant this year.

The NFL advertisers have lost FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR, and ratings are down an atonishijg 17% 1 out of every 6 people who watched the NFL last year are not this year. Even if it's not ALL Kaep's fault, unquestionably a ton of it is. Kaep has had my miles a bigger impact in the world. (For better or worse mind you [ie worse]

this is incredibly small time compared to all the people that've been outed for sexual misconduct this year

hell, Kevin Spacey alone is a bigger hit, "500 million dollars" nfl stuff lol
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We never had to deal with Hitler's Twitter.
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CelesMyUserName posted...

SSJBKK20Vegito posted...

CelesMyUserName posted...

Yep, impossible to think otherwise given just how much has exploded from people coming out with such major stories. Nobody else comes close to being as significant this year.

The NFL advertisers have lost FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR, and ratings are down an atonishijg 17% 1 out of every 6 people who watched the NFL last year are not this year. Even if it's not ALL Kaep's fault, unquestionably a ton of it is. Kaep has had my miles a bigger impact in the world. (For better or worse mind you [ie worse]

this is incredibly small time compared to all the people that've been outed for sexual misconduct this year

hell, Kevin Spacey alone is a bigger hit, "500 million dollars" nfl stuff lol

Always funny to see how much some people are disillusioned into thinking football is important.
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LapisLazuli posted...

We never had to deal with Hitler's Twitter.

Thars actually pretty damn funny.
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also awarding Mueller before he finishes his investigation would be completely stupid
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POTY should have gone to Tom Brady
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SSJBKK20Vegito posted...

2 What has Metoo caused across the world? Every name we've had come out so far was either a US athlete, movie/tv star, politician, reporter, or invoked with them in some way. All the important names have been American

uh, #metoo is very much a global thing. just because you haven't heard of the non-american celebrities involved in the movement doesn't mean they don't exist.
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LapisLazuli posted...

CelesMyUserName posted...

SSJBKK20Vegito posted...

CelesMyUserName posted...

Yep, impossible to think otherwise given just how much has exploded from people coming out with such major stories. Nobody else comes close to being as significant this year.

The NFL advertisers have lost FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR, and ratings are down an atonishijg 17% 1 out of every 6 people who watched the NFL last year are not this year. Even if it's not ALL Kaep's fault, unquestionably a ton of it is. Kaep has had my miles a bigger impact in the world. (For better or worse mind you [ie worse]

this is incredibly small time compared to all the people that've been outed for sexual misconduct this year

hell, Kevin Spacey alone is a bigger hit, "500 million dollars" nfl stuff lol

Always funny to see how much some people are disillusioned into thinking football is important.

Remind me next time 120 million people watch a #Metoo rally....

Even if you want to say "The Super Bowl
Is different" as a cop out, virtually every year the AFC and NFC Championship games are #2 and 3 in the world. And the divisional weekend games take up 4 of the rest of the top 10 spots...
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CelesMyUserName posted...

also awarding Mueller before he finishes his investigation would be completely stupid

Why?

Say it takes him 5 years and every year he is the biggest story of the year... he should win it every year.
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Me and you have different definitions of important.
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CelesMyUserName posted...

SSJBKK20Vegito posted...

CelesMyUserName posted...

Yep, impossible to think otherwise given just how much has exploded from people coming out with such major stories. Nobody else comes close to being as significant this year.

The NFL advertisers have lost FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR, and ratings are down an atonishijg 17% 1 out of every 6 people who watched the NFL last year are not this year. Even if it's not ALL Kaep's fault, unquestionably a ton of it is. Kaep has had my miles a bigger impact in the world. (For better or worse mind you [ie worse]

this is incredibly small time compared to all the people that've been outed for sexual misconduct this year

hell, Kevin Spacey alone is a bigger hit, "500 million dollars" nfl stuff lol

ITT Kevin Spacey is a bigger deal than the NFL....

The Rock, the biggest current star in Hollywood is not a bigger deal than the NFL. Let alone fucking Kevin Spacey...
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again you're talking about NFL versus people's entire lives and consequences going back for decades and with lasting impact on the future
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LapisLazuli posted...

Me and you have different definitions of important.

Things that effect the most Money.
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I'd be pissed if I won person of the year but had to share it with like thousands of other people
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pjbasis posted...

I'd be pissed if I won person of the year but had to share it with like thousands of other people

you won in 2006 and had to share with billions of people
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pjbasis posted...

I'd be pissed if I won person of the year but had to share it with like thousands of other people

You already did and had to share it with billions!

Edit: Not even close.
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CelesMyUserName posted...

again you're talking about NFL versus people's entire lives and consequences going back for decades and with lasting impact on the future

From a "micro" standpoint it is obviously more
Important. As that moment irrevocably changed that one life forever. But someone could go shoot your mother on the head right now and do the same to you, and I doubt you would claim you should be person of the year because of it. Because yes on your micro level there will probbaly be nothing you ever go through that changes so much. But on a macro level it's not even close.

And on a macro level a couple Hollywood guys becoming pariahs, a reporter fired, a guy who might now lose his Senate chance and and a couple Senators/people in the house leaving or should leave isn't even close, to the level of the razing of the NFL.
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I think the NFL equivalent would be like, if there was new research on brain damage which prompted a bunch of prominent players to suddenly quit. That would be a big deal.
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Good for them, they deserve it
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SSJBKK20Vegito posted...

LapisLazuli posted...

Me and you have different definitions of important.

Things that effect the most Money.

Hahaha.

Yeah, very different.
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

I think the NFL equivalent would be like, if there was new research on brain damage which prompted a bunch of prominent players to suddenly quit. That would be a big deal.

That's coming soon.

And at that time the person should either be Roger Goodell for destroying the unkillable, or Christopher Nowistki (sp) and all the other CTE doctors that are famous.
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LapisLazuli posted...

SSJBKK20Vegito posted...

LapisLazuli posted...

Me and you have different definitions of important.

Things that effect the most Money.

Hahaha.

Yeah, very different.

I apologize that you don't live in the real world...
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"Live in the real world like me, the man who believes we should nuke the cities of sports stars I don't like and kill thousands."
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At least I know the things that affect the most money are what matter the most in the overall grand scheme anytime you speak macro, unless genocide is involved (genocide is not involved in any of the top 3 this year)
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