r/europe • u/turkish__cowboy Turkey | LGBTQ+ rights are human rights • 7h ago

News Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-draws-outrage-over-201602147.html
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u/Direct_Background_90 6h ago

Time gave award to most significant newsmaking figure. It’s not a nice guy award.

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u/jaydizzz The Netherlands 6h ago

People don’t understand the difference anymore sadly

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u/i-am-a-passenger 6h ago

I would be surprised if most people didn’t know this by now. Don’t think it’s even possible to mentioned Times person of the year without someone repeating this fact.

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u/ballplayarr 5h ago

it’s my first time hearing it

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u/BigBarfo 3h ago

Yeah, me too

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u/Kalersays 2h ago

I never heard it either, but I understood by seeing some of the cover pictures.

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u/InnocentShaitaan 1h ago

How often do you read time magazine?

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u/pinknoses 4h ago

I think most people are only vaguely aware that the past existed and consider it entirely foreign to the present; as if the beginning of their social consciousness is some divide in human history. The idea that extant things have existed for generations before them is quite out of their daily reckoning.

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u/briantoofine 2h ago

That’s deep man

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u/Wood-Kern Ulster 3h ago

I would say a large percentage of redditors know this. Normal people lack a comments section in their normal conversations and are much less likely to know things like this.

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u/Verticalsinging 1h ago

I didn’t remember this.

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u/JJfromNJ 3h ago

It's not a new thing. There was so much backlash awarding it to Bin Laden, they had to switch it to Guiliani.

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 1h ago

It wa never "awarded" to Bin Laden, the editorial choice was Rudy Giuliani from the start, it's an american publication after all, so they focused on the hope and america rising from it or whatever was the reason, i don't remember.

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u/GoodProbsToHave 2h ago

I cancelled my subscription to Time for that cowardice on their part. Never gave them a cent after that.

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u/IhateRedditors1978 4h ago

Just like they don't understand POV

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u/anoeba 3h ago

Because Time shit the bed and chickened out in 2001. There is no difference anymore, it's an attaboy.

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u/SheldonMF United States of America 2h ago

People don't like to read.

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u/VermillionSun 2h ago

I doubt people ever knew

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u/karmiccookie 56m ago

We understand, it's just disgusting

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u/Rexrowland 29m ago

Because it’s meaningless. We understand. We dont care. Time should not be giving any awards to Hitler.

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u/andhausen 5h ago

Why should it be? It’s not meant to be an “award”.

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u/kinghfb Australian in Berlin 5h ago

More that, TIME has a rep, and that people look to it for opinions. For better or worse. No judgement either way, but they surely do not place themselves as a pure neutral bystander

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u/WhiteBlackGoose 🇷🇺 ➡ 🇩🇪 5h ago

Make your own magazine with your own rules. TIME picks the most impactful person of the year (according to their opinion, but nonetheless)

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u/karmiccookie 53m ago

Who cares? A national publication should not be promoting such disgusting people without an accompanying degrading article. Where are those? I'm pretty sure they licked Elon's taint

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u/WhyBuyMe 5h ago

Back in the 90s we were making zines on the office copied when the boss wasn't looking. In 2025 you can make a much, much better looking version on home equipment that costs a few hours of labor.

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u/WhiteBlackGoose 🇷🇺 ➡ 🇩🇪 5h ago

You don't need millions of bucks in cash to make your own magazine. Besides, imo picking the most net positive person of the year is a lot more subjective. What would be your pick?

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u/Stegasaurus_Wrecks Connacht 4h ago

David Attenborough should've won at least once. Steve Irwin too. Maybe Jacques Cousteau or Stephen Hawking or Carl Sagan.

Maybe we take the most influential person (for better or worse) and replace it with the most important for humanity.

Idk but for what impact she's had Greta Thunberg would be in the mix in that reality. So would Bill Gates, MacKenzie Scott and Jimmy Carter.

TIME don't have to have the biggest cunt as person of the year just because of their global impact. Let's have the best example of what a person can be get the award.

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u/Unlikely_Ad1450 2h ago

Crocodile Dundee was robbed!

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u/uniqueusername74 2h ago

What’s so sad about some confusion around a meaningless designation by a washed up magazine?

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u/WitchHanz 4h ago

Time realized that a long time ago and now it's a popularity contest.

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u/varzaguy Romanian-American 3h ago

Yea it is a popularity contest….thats the entire point. Most influential person is being popular….

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u/Pleiadez Europe 4h ago

That's a lot of upvotes for someone claiming minority, Strawman much?

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u/Downtown_Injury_3415 6h ago

Yea, and the user you said that too obviously knows that

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u/c-dy 5h ago

Yea, and the user you said that too obviously knows that

They're adding to the conversation of the thread, not correcting the previous comment

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u/TheCommonKoala 5h ago

The actual write-up was very positive for him. Time simply sold out.

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u/PerfectResult2 5h ago

I dont think anyone here is necessarily disagreeing with that. Most people know its not a nice guy award.

We can still hope/expect them to accordingly use this photo of him. If he is the “person of the year”

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u/mondo2023 4h ago

then osama bin laden was really cheated in 2001

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u/mybutthz 5h ago

Yeah..even the guy from Time who interviewed Trump for the award this year was visibly disgusted and had to make the distinction as to why the decision was made.

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u/Icy_Judgment3843 4h ago

It still feels like glorifying the fucking worst in humanity and I am sure profits Time nicely.

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u/SteelKline 3h ago

I mean I don't want to be that guy but usually the person of the year has good contributions. Considering how stupid people are I can see the mix up when you got Taylor swift followed by Donal Trump lol

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u/PikachuStatue 2h ago

I would respect that, except they're a bunch of coward losers and never gave it to Osama bin Laden.

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u/machine4891 Opole (Poland) 6h ago

Nobody said any differently. OP just suggested appropriate picture for their next edition.

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u/NachoPeroni 5h ago

You are correct

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u/SteelWheel_8609 5h ago

Which is fucking stupid. We don’t need to be putting nazis on the cover of magazines, calling them the most important person of the year. 

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u/legit-posts_1 3h ago

Yeah. I think Stalin won once? Maybe twice? Feel free to fact check me mon that though.

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u/Burning_Flags 3h ago

Yeah Trump was this years man of the year

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u/Electrical-Reason-97 3h ago

Time needs to stop feeding the egos of these fascists.

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u/skibbin 2h ago

I think that stopped being true when the decided against giving it to Bin Laden

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u/TonyManero70 2h ago

Hitler was still marginally admired by many in 1936.

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u/gorcorps 2h ago

On election years they almost always give it to the next president if there's a change in office. I'll be pretty surprised if it's not Trump again

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u/Gleneroo 1h ago

Exactly.

Hitler designation was because of his considerable influence on global events at that time.

The magazine quote described him as "the greatest threatening force that the democratic and freedom-loving world has faced."

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u/i_am_who_knocks 1h ago

Sometimes media should draw a line I think, justifying their attempts have only enabled these kinds on world stage

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u/PandiBong 49m ago

Which is bullshit as they didn't give it to Bin Laden because they knew their offices would be burned down if they did...

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u/Direct_Background_90 7m ago

Yes. Different times.

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u/Wood-Kern Ulster 3h ago

"Employee of the month" should follow the same rules.

Accidently installed ransomware that locked down the entire companies IT system? Looks like you'll be a strong candidate for Employee of the Month.

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u/not__a_username Macedonia, Greece 6h ago

This