'Worst choice ever': Intense backlash after Elon Musk named Time's 'Person of the Year'

[Charlemagne]

‘Worst choice ever’: Intense backlash after Elon Musk named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

“The selection of Musk this year may be the worst choice ever.”

thehill.com

 

[shack]

Maybe listing the criteria for Time choosing their Person of the Year would be in order.

 

[unassuming]

Person of Year can be good or bad, Hitler was named Man of Year in 1938.

From wiki: Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999)[1] is an annual issue of the United States news magazine and website Time featuring a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year".[

 

[y2kmark]

Everybody's a friggin' critic!!!

 

[Insidious Von]

What does time have against Jeff Bezos?

Person of the Year: Xi Jinping.

 

[Spunky1]

Kim Jung Un

 

[Mr.Know-It-All]

Who cares... Time Magazine is as relevant as Playboy Magazine.

 

[shack]

Who cares... Time Magazine is as relevant as Playboy Magazine.

We're having a discussion, and so are other publications, so evidently quite a few people care.

Seeing as you don't, feel free to not comment.

 

[rhuarc29]

I think he's a pretty good choice. Love him or hate him, he's doing incredible things. We need more people like him if we're going to stave off a global human catastrophe in the near future.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Well until I come up with something like Pay Pal. Then build a high end electric car from scratch, build solar panel mega structures and then build rockets that can return to earth and land to be re used thus breathing life into the dead US space program. And become the richest man in the world. ( except for Putin) while still in my 40's , I will defer to him being on the cover and not me.

 

[Valcazar]

Time abandoned any pretense of their choice being a serious one back in 2001 when they didn't pick Osama Bin Laden.

 

[jalimon]

I wonder why he sold billions in stocks recently.

He knows something we do not?

p.s. I admire the guy and what he has done. Still I would love that he shut the fuck up about health.

 

[richaceg]

their judgement isn't the best....

 

[poker]

Remember the good old days when we all agreed…

 

[poker]

What does time have against Jeff Bezos?

Person of the Year: Xi Jinping.

what has Bezos invented? He hawks other peoples shit online and takes a cut. Not exactly revolutionary

 

[poker]

I wonder why he sold billions in stocks recently.

He knows something we do not?

p.s. I admire the guy and what he has done. Still I would love that he shut the fuck up about health.

probably math. Their is no way Tesla can sell enough cars to match its valuation.

 

[Scholar]

I wonder why he sold billions in stocks recently.

He knows something we do not?

p.s. I admire the guy and what he has done. Still I would love that he shut the fuck up about health.

Pretty sure I read something about him needing to liquidate some of his holdings to pay a tax bill.

 

[jalimon]

probably math. Their is no way Tesla can sell enough cars to match its valuation.

Tesla is on to something else. They will make money controlling your car and all data they will collect from you. Not sure how it will shape.

 

[y2kmark]

What does time have against Jeff Bezos?

Person of the Year: Xi Jinping.

NEXT year, grasshopper...

 

[Brill]

I’d say Trump garnered more stories and headlines even though he got turfed out.