• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    Time magazine “Person of the year” doesn’t necessarily mean “good” it means “pivotal to change”. The “change” may not be a good change.

    Hitler, Stalin, Khrushchev, Kissinger, Ted Turner, Newt Gingrich, Putin, Zuckerberg, and Turmp have all been Person of the Year.

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    Every time I see these posts “dunking” on Elon on Twitter…

    I just can’t help but think if everyone who disagreed with him just left, him and his supporters would just turn on each other.

    The only reason they’re there is to argue, no matter who else is there, they’re gonna argue.

    Reasonable people being there just give them someone to unite against.

    Don’t give them the common enemy, and they’ll fight each other, and be less unified for the next election.

    Anyone still spending time on twitter (regardless of their personal politics) is just helping trump.

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    Stalin was 1939 & 1942

    Putin in 2007

    Trump in 2016

    And Musk was 2021, not a year ago. I guess the screenshot could be a couple years old.

    The award is about people who have impact, not whether that impact is positive or negative.

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      See that’s the beauty of cropping out the timestamp. You can get mad no matter what year it is!