Angela Merkel, German chancellor, is Time 'Person of the Year - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Time Magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its "Person of the Year". The magazine cited her role in Europe's crises over migration and Greek debt. Mrs Merkel had provided "steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply", editor Nancy Gibbs wrote. Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named runner-up and third place went to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Ms Gibbs wrote of Mrs Merkel: "For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply, Angela Merkel is 'Time's Person of the Year'." Citing the refugee and Greek economic crises, along with the Paris terror attacks, Ms Gibbs said: "Each time Merkel stepped in. Germany would bail Greece out, on her strict terms. It would welcome refugees as casualties of radical Islamist savagery, not carriers of it. [B]Time Person of the Year 2015 1. Angela Merkel - German chancellor since the 2005 election, leader of the CDU 2. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - head of the Islamic State militant group 3. Donald Trump - business magnate seeking Republican nomination as US presidential candidate 4. Black Lives Matter - activist group campaigning against violence towards black people, notably in the US 5. Hassan Rouhani - president of Iran since 2013 6. Travis Kalanick - US entrepreneur, founder of the Uber transportation network firm 7. Caitlyn Jenner - born Bruce Jenner, became 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, officially changed name and gender in 2015[/B] [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35048796[/url]

Are you serious. And for that matter, how is 'Black Lives Matter' a person?

"A presedential candidate has never been person of the year" ~ TIME on Bernie Sanders Then they give Trump third place [i]hah[/i]

[QUOTE=Lord Xenoyia;49281167]Are you serious. And for that matter, how is 'Black Lives Matter' a person?[/QUOTE]They've given it to groups before, I think Protester won a few years back? edit: yeah [t]http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2011/1101111226_400.jpg[/t]

A woman who screwed over Europe and her country..

And yet according to some of the European posters, she screwed over Europe by allowing the initial wave of immigrants not be screen and overwhelming the European nations with the immigrants. Edit: fucking ninjas

[QUOTE=EdvardSchnitz;49281216]A woman who screwed over Europe and her country..[/QUOTE] Fuck me it's like I'm actually reading the BBC comments section again. [editline]9th December 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=OmniConsUme;49281221]And yet according to some of the European posters, she screwed over Europe by allowing the initial wave of immigrants not be screen and overwhelming the European nations with the immigrants. Edit: fucking ninjas[/QUOTE] And according to others she hasn't done anything wrong. What's you point here? People have different opinions on her and her policy. TIME pick whoever the fuck TIME want to pick. They probably have a reasonable justification for picking her.

[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;49281221]And yet according to some of the European posters, she screwed over Europe by allowing the initial wave of immigrants not be screen and overwhelming the European nations with the immigrants. Edit: fucking ninjas[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=EdvardSchnitz;49281216]A woman who screwed over Europe and her country..[/QUOTE] Considering there is Donald Trump and IS leader in the follow ups, I guess they measure person of the year by how many fucked up stuff can one produce. Im surprised Putin is not there somewhere as well.

why is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi #2

[QUOTE=EdvardSchnitz;49281216]A woman who screwed over Europe and her country..[/QUOTE] American conservative thinking he can talk about politics. Aside from the arguably poor handling of immigration and pension age shift what has she done wrong?

Is it april first? perhaps i am misunderstanding how the article structured it, but seems like a leader of ISIS and donald trump were potential nominees for the award. Someone please tell me i am misunderstanding this. edit: yeah, I misunderstood. this is the list of the most influential person of the year, not the best. so you dont have to be good to get on here.

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49281244]why is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi #2[/QUOTE] "Person of the year" isn't "the bestster persons ever!!", it's an award to whoever they think had a big impact, good or bad, that year. Even concepts have won the award due to this ("You", "The Protester", etc.)

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49281244]why is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi #2[/QUOTE] For bad or for good he has been VERY influential.

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49281244]why is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi #2[/QUOTE] Because while he's a despicable human being, he's made a lot of impact on the world, none of it good, but still.

[QUOTE=da space core;49281254]Is it april first? perhaps i am misunderstanding how the article structured it, but seems like a leader of ISIS and donald trump were potential nominees for the award. Someone please tell me i am misunderstanding this[/QUOTE] Tump is a moron but he's got a lot of people around the world talking (and worrying) about his insane ideals. The leader of ISIS has influenced people around the world to come fight for their cause and generally changed the world in that it's made a lot of leaders paranoid wrecks.

can't hurdle the merkel on ruining europe

God damn you, you old fat piece of crap.

Well you do have to admit her actions left a much bigger impact on international relations, foreign policies, internal security, economical interventionism, political sanctions, and paradigm shifts in 2015. Even if it wasn't positive in every aspect. That's not what TIME's Person of The Year is about even. And when you compare her with The Arabic Lunatic, Brain-dead Businessman, Black Lives Matter(less than our agendas), The guy which somehow made people forget about Iran being a fundamentalist shithole, the CEO of a legally-not-taxi taxi co, and a popular woman which used to be a man, yeah, I'd say Merkel left a bigger impact on things.

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49281244]why is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi #2[/QUOTE] It's bullshit, he should have won it. Greece wouldn't have turned into a crater-pocked wasteland like syria if Merkel didn't intervene and her policies on bringing in migrants are caused by migrants arriving in the first place, because of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;49281248]American conservative thinking he can talk about politics. Aside from the arguably poor handling of immigration and pension age shift what has she done wrong?[/QUOTE] That is what she did wrong, I wasn't saying anything else she has done was terrible but her immigration policies where a big fuckup

eh if I can be time person of the year I think anyone can be.

Reminds me of when they picked reptilian Mark Zuckerberg several years after facebook blew up

[QUOTE=RichyZ;49281313]wasn't greece basically already fucked before any of this happened?[/QUOTE] It's like if you had a huge volcano about to erupt but everyone was distracted with typhoons. They get a free pass, though; They joined the EU when political transparency and policy control weren't particularly practiced.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;49281313]wasn't greece basically already fucked before any of this happened?[/QUOTE] Greece was fucked long before this due to the [I]fucking massive recession that ruined a shitload of borderline useless European countries[/I]. It hasn't had a stable economy for fucking ages due to the government(s) of Greece just outright refusing to play nicely with the rest of the EU when it comes to debt repayment. Other countries that were hit hard managed to pull themselves back a reasonable amount, but Greece just fucking went with it and keeps shifting the blame around instead. The failings of Greece have little to do with refugees or migration issues.

[QUOTE=EdvardSchnitz;49281311]That is what she did wrong, I wasn't saying anything else she has done was terrible but her immigration policies where a big fuckup[/QUOTE] Hardly europe and country ruining then. Those refugees were coming from syria, afghanistan and iraq anyway.

She won the award for fighting against tyranny, but Daesh's leader is #2 on the list, and past awardwinners have been Hitler and Stalin. Quite frankly this award is worthless and ridiculous.

Not sure if I'd want to be the top of a list that has the head of ISIS and Donald Trump as runner ups. :v:

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;49281355]Hardly europe and country ruining then. Those refugees were coming from syria, afghanistan and iraq anyway.[/QUOTE] It is when she pretty much completely unregulated the influx of refugees/immigrants without a single care about the general security of Europa and the well-being of its citizens. Not to mention the massive rift this is causing in Europa since a refugee/immigrant in Germany was promised more money than that a person in one of the Baltic States averagely earns on a full week of work. I can totally see why predominantly the Eastern European countries are against this.

[QUOTE=EdvardSchnitz;49281216]A woman who screwed over Europe and her country..[/QUOTE] Germany helped us a lot, so I don't know what you're talking about.

time is and has always been a fucking joke