Time magazine is expected to crown Donald Trump the 2024 “Person of the Year.”
      • djsoren19@yiffit.net
        22·
        3 days ago

        A rapist was picked as the person of the year? You seriously draw the line at murder but not rape?

        • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
          17·
          3 days ago

          Yeah, because if I’m saying that a murdered shouldn’t be picked as the person of the year, the logical conclusion there is that the pick should be Trump instead. Can you be more disingenuine?

          • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            While you didn’t explicitly say that Trump was chosen. Since the conversation is about “it shouldn’t be Trump, it should be Luigi”. The natural flow of conversation is that if you say “it shouldn’t be Luigi” then it, by default, should be Trump.

            • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
              13·
              2 days ago

              I didn’t say it shouldn’t be Luigi, I said it shouldn’t be a murderer. Anyone with even a hint of intellectual honesty can then reason that if I’m against a murderer being picked then I’m probably against a rapist, racist, compulsive liar and an aspiring dictator as well.

              • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
                2·
                2 days ago

                Then your reply should have been along the lines of “Picking a murderer instead of a rapist isn’t better”.

                FYI, they have picked a mass murderer more than once in the past. Being person of the year isn’t necessarily an honor.

      • n_emoo@lemmy.ca
        361·
        3 days ago

        No youre right lets have a convicted felon, rapist, etc etc. who everyone already knows about and won’t change a thing for the better instead.

      • Alteon@lemmy.world
        131·
        3 days ago

        Mate, we live in a world where it is socially acceptable to refuse life-saving treatment and medication if it’s deemed as not being worth it for their bottom line - it’s essentially legal murder. We live in a world where billionaires get to decide whether our lives are worth it to them. A world where billionaires are systematically taking away your rights, your freedoms, your comfort, your money…but because it’s done slow enough no one freaks out too much.

        The guy that finally decided to fight back should be heralded as a fucking hero.

        • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
          220·
          3 days ago

          Of all the issues we’re facing right now, this is one of the most clear-cut: he’s a murderer, and he will be convicted as one. There’s no room for ifs or buts. Even if one believes his motives were pure, there should be no doubt that this is not how political issues are solved. Violence has never been, nor should it ever be, the answer.

          A world where political disagreements are resolved through assassinations is not one anyone wants to live in. It’s dangerously naive to think future acts of violence like this will only target people you consider villains. No, they’ll eventually target your heroes too - because your heroes are someone else’s villains.

          • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
            9·
            3 days ago

            Trump is guilty of a whole laundry list of crimes, some actually worse than murder. There was plenty of room for ifs or buts, and his motives weren’t pure at all.

            Selective justice isn’t justice. American oligarchs are not subject to the law, so they should also not be protected by it. That’s what it means to be an outlaw.

          • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
            8·
            3 days ago

            He is indeed a murder, but he hasn’t been treated like one. Most murders get a brief investigation or a few dedicated officers - this murderer received millions of dollars in police time to track them down. Most murderers receive minimal press coverage (i.e. the mass shooting shortly after this killing) this murder’s trial will be publicized and politicized, he will be “made an example of” because someone committed economic vigilantism and that is unacceptable to our wealthy class.

            Murder is a bad and I’d much prefer peaceful means. But we are where we are and it’s going to be a fucking circus.

  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    4 days ago

    Become a rapist, fraudster, openly dickish and racist fuckwad and YOU TOO can get your name as the person of the year. Hell, you might even become president of the United States.

  • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    3 days ago

    When was the last time anyone under about 65 read Time magazine?

    Also, what is a “magazine”?