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Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

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Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

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Post by opinali »

martincmartin wrote: post #89
user24 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hitler was TIME's "Man of the Year" in 1938. - after the Munich Agreement wherein Hitler agreed peace with Chamberlain. Ok he reneged, but that's not the point.

> Ok he reneged, but that's not the point. The article isn't celebrating peace, it's very negative about Hitler. The cover for that issue shows people being tortured. Edit: you can read it here. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,...

Yeah, old times when the press had balls. Good luck hoping Time will pick Snowden these days.

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

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Post by looser »

PixelPusher wrote: post #22
orik wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah because how dare any citizen question it's government, right? /s

Are you serious? You can question everything you want as an ordinary citizen. The moment you sign a contract, specially for the military, you agree to keep your word. So, right, how dare the government hold someone to their word? You're basically advocating lying and not honoring your promises. BTW - I basically make a living honoring promises and contracts, otherwise we wouldn't have customers ;)

Well, the moment you become part of the state (government), you agree to FOLLOW the constitution. The question here is not who broke "promises", but who acted against the constitution.

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

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Post by TillE »

pmorici wrote: post #97
kolbe wrote: post #91

This is one of the more disheartening polls I've seen. It speaks to a new, disturbing dynamic in our social order where people do not defend their beliefs with any sort of force or passion. I had no clue so many people shared in my belief that Snowden has done something great. I figured the media had corrupted most of the people into thinking he'd done something deplorable, because no one has been taking to the stree…

If you rely on Internet polls to deduce what the sentiment of the country is then Snowden is an American hero, Ron Paul should be president, and there would be no more software patents. That is to say that Internet polls grossly over represent certain minority beliefs.

Actual polls show a slight majority in favor of Snowden, despite the barrage of whining and accusations from politicians and cable news.

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

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Post by Hovertruck »

Thanks for the helpful error message, Time.

   Error (api.go:209) forerunner/api.getPollById: exception: can't connect to new replica set master [ec2-54-225-59-0.compute-1.amazonaws.com:27017], err: couldn't connect to server ec2-54-225-59-0.compute-1.amazonaws.com:27017

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

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Post by egeozcan »

beaker52 wrote: post #57
lignuist wrote: post #19

Poll 2010: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288... And then it became: http://content.time.com/time/person-of-the-year/2010/ So probably this year it will be Miley Cyrus...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan got a lot of positive votes. I imagine he doesn't have same support after Gezi.

He has a fan base which acts just like Justin Bieber fans.

Disclaimer: I can't be objective on this issue because I disagree with Erdoğan on nearly every subject. I also keep hearing that he actually hires people to lead a social media army but I can't prove it. I really don't like him.

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