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minus-squareShrubbery@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoAdolf Hilter was Time’s Person of the Year in 1938. Joseph Stalin was 1939. Source: https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2019712,00.html
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-21 day agoGood catch, I have edited it accordingly. Real “giving the nobel peace prize to Henry Kissinger and the guys he is currently dropping chemical weapons on” vibes. Also: Holy shit, Chiang Kai-Shek is there for 1937.
minus-squaretruthfultemporarily@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoPerson of the year is not a honorific. It just means most important or influential.
minus-squareHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoexcuse me i won person of the year and i’m taking it as an honorific
minus-squareskulblaka@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoTime Magazine Person of the Year is for the most influential person of the year. Not the best, or most admirable. Merely the greatest agent of change.
Adolf Hilter was Time’s Person of the Year in 1938. Joseph Stalin was 1939.
Source: https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2019712,00.html
Good catch, I have edited it accordingly. Real “giving the nobel peace prize to Henry Kissinger and the guys he is currently dropping chemical weapons on” vibes.
Also: Holy shit, Chiang Kai-Shek is there for 1937.
Person of the year is not a honorific. It just means most important or influential.
excuse me i won person of the year and i’m taking it as an honorific
Time Magazine Person of the Year is for the most influential person of the year. Not the best, or most admirable. Merely the greatest agent of change.
Wow