O noes! The theme is gone!

Could care less is my trigger.

I could care less what your trigger is

Irrelegardless of our differences in this thread, I still like you guys.

ApolloAndy:

“Should of” makes we want to stab myself in the eye with a fork.

So, you are saying you should of stabbed yourself in the eye with a fork?

Edit: had to fight the autocorrect on the should have.

Shades:

I could care less what your trigger is

You should of at least given him a trigger warning. I seen it coming, but still, a warning would have been nice irregardless of what you thought you should supposably be posting.

At the end of the day, I could care less, but you be you, bruh.

Thou shouldst have at least bestowed upon him a warning of trigger. I did foresee it, yet still, a warning would have been kind, regardless of what thou didst think thou shouldst be posting.

At the day’s end, I could care less, but be thou thyself, good sir.

GoBucks89:

Much of Europe doesn't add fluoride to its drinking water. So, I don't view it as crazy to think about whether we should add it to ours.

I mean, the stereotype for British dental hygiene didn't come from nowhere.

https://time.com/7201547/pe...mp-choice/

I dunno. I saw this and it feels like this should appropriately blow minds.

I guess the discussion becomes, "What does it mean to be Time's Man of the Year?"

Is the idea that he's just too prominent a figure, or that Time overlooked the moral shortcomings of our President like the voters?

From their website:

"The criterion is 'the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.'"

And that's why people like Hitler, Stalin, and the Ayatollah have been previously selected.

I think every US President has been Time Person of the Year at least once (often in their respective year(s) of election) since FDR.

You're right. I had no idea.

That's just lazy. Esssentially, every fourth year, it's just the newly elected American President.

I had no idea.

Lord Gonchar:

Is the idea that he's just too prominent a figure, or that Time overlooked the moral shortcomings of our President like the voters?

The media is compromised and is just functioning as a propaganda machine at this point. Seeing as the owner of Time magazine is a Trump supporter and cheerleader, why not publish a glowing article about him. Need to sway opinions of the public and whatnot. At the end of the day Trump is still a complete scumbag.

"The media," believe it or not, is not some monolithic cabal of agenda setting whatevers that people like to say.

Yeah, you can't confuse Time's selections as endorsements. They've been pretty clear about intent. The short piece this year is not "glowing."

Jeff:

Yeah, you can't confuse Time's selections as endorsements.

I think a lot of people do. I didn't quite understand it. It's one of those year-end cultural touchpoints that people look at superficially (the cover) and react.

I suspect that in a discussion about the importance of words, perceptions and such that this...

...may empower the wrong people.

Because a certain segment of the other side misinterpreted this in a similar way.

I guess it wasn't so much the choice itself.

It's the perception of the decision.

I mean, I'm a leftist/anti-fascist communist pig, and even I wouldn't paint "the media" with a single broad brush. At least, not in that way. The media's job is to capture attention and monetize it. Sometimes that also includes fact-finding, but I don't view it as the primary purpose. Secondarily, those who own a particular outlet might use it as a bully pulpit.

One of my favorite undergraduate courses was the History of US Journalism, taught by Berkeley's J-School. This might sound surprising given that I'm an engineer. In the first lecture, we read several reviews of Citizen Kane, in particular a few very influential ones that praised the film for using completely new and groundbreaking cinematic techniques.

Our professor then proceeded to show us clips from previous films that, collectively, exhibited every. single. one. of those techniques. Orson Welles is still largely regarded as a genius for this film---arguably incorrectly. At the end of that first lecture, he summed up what we'd be learning in the course: "Just because it's printed in a newspaper, that doesn't make it true."

We had a ball. Bully Pulpits! Yellow Journalism! Muckraking!

“Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news,” is the sentiment expressed in a little framed placard on the desk of L. E. Edwardson, day city editor of the Chicago Herald and Examiner. https://quoteinvestigator.c...-suppress/

Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938.

Trump should probably be Person of the Year for the last ten or so years, because that's all anyone ever talks about anymore. I wish we could just ignore the man, but he really knows how to wedge himself into the minds of everyone.

Thinking about this as I drove through rural central Ohio yesterday and seeing all of the Trump flags being flown. What other president has ever had anything like that before? I certainly don’t remember Obama flags or Bush flags. How did Trump become such a massive figure?

Basket of deplorables?