Beyond parody. And so many western libs just, completely unaware and "celebrating" this. Brainwashed

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Courage is contagious

    And that's why every man between 18 and 40 was conscripted right?

    • buh [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Didn’t they draft men up to age 60?

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Yes, and trans women as well because Ukraine is a queerphobic shithole that doesn't allow changing your legal gender without bottom surgery, which is in turn also medically gatekept and paywalled.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Up to 60 or something and they even had to let criminals join as well because they were desperate.

      Also you know this is all about bravery when there are constant reports of families looking for missing soldiers(read: dead and the government wont tell them) and even entire brigades on Ukrainian telegram.

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    2 years ago

    Real magazine heads knew Time was bullshit when they didn't give Person of the Year to Osama bin Laden.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Would have been a :chad: move.

      But it would have put me in really strange company come 2006.

      • edge [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        You're already in company with Hitler in that case.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          2 years ago

          And Chiang Kai-shek, Kissinger, Pierre Laval, the Ayatollah, Reagan, Bush, John Paul II, Churchill, Westmoreland . . . it's already a rogue's gallery.

  • SickleRick [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Time-Life was always a CIA cutout. They used to issue press passes to agents as cover.

    No surprise.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Correction - Volodomyr Zelenskyyyyy is quote: "The Spirit of Ukraine and TIME’s 2022 Person of the Year"

    Also look at the "Eastern Europe" filter they have on all of the photos, the borderline-luminescant blue and yellow of the Ukr flag looks so fucking drab in every one.

  • Phish [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    God what a strange thing. The weird gif montage at the start, the melodramatic thriller tone, that cover image. It's honestly just bizarre to me how much different my reaction to seeing that stuff is from the general public's.

  • TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    This'll look great in about six year's time when it comes out in the wash that Green T-Shirt Guy and his cohorts made off with a few billion of Uncle USA's birthday money.

  • Koi [any]
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    2 years ago

    eh whatever

    it’s meant for the most newsworthy person of the year, not the “best”. i don’t really disagree with this even.

  • MendingBenjamin [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    From here:

    Hitler appeared on the cover of TIME on multiple occasions — most famously perhaps on Jan. 2, 1939, when he was named Man of the Year. That choice abided by the dictum of TIME founder Henry Luce, who decreed that the Man of the Year — now Person of the Year — was not an honor but instead should be a distinction applied to the newsmaker who most influenced world events for better or worse. In case that second criterion was lost on readers, the issue that named Hitler dispensed with the portrait treatment that cover subjects typically got. Instead he was depicted as a tiny figure with his back to the viewer, playing a massive organ with his murdered victims spinning on a St. Catherine’s wheel. Underneath the stark, black-and-white illustration was the caption, “From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate.”

    Does Zelensky get the death organ treatment? I’m guessing not

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Well, TIME better hope he's not still in power when the US decides a bunch of occult/pagan groups, recently flush with cash & weapons from the Western support of ultranationalist/Nazi groups in UA, across the post-energy crisis, less-stable European continent need a stern lesson in :freedom-and-democracy:

    Cuz if he is, he's gonna be the next :saddam-hussein:

    We'll see what happens, but I'd not be the least bit surprised if this ends up just being a rerun of the Soviet-Afghan War and all the fallout from that but against the backdrop of Eastern continental Europe instead of the Middle East. New avenues for destabilization, occupation, and never-ending security crises demanding US taxpayer money be laundered to PMCs and defense contractors.

    We might have gotten a tiny preview of it when they accidentally blew up 2 people in Poland. Imagine what the post Russo-Ukraine War landscape of Ukraine looks like... Surveillance equipment, weapons, and JSOC training for Azov going on right now... Even the current generation of CIA flunkies could probably pull off Slavic Nazi ISIS.