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Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead (time.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader cstacy noticed Saturday that Julian Assange hadn't made any communications or public appearances in six weeks. But today an anonymous reader writes:
Julian Assange is still not dead, reports The Inquisitr, noting "the WikiLeaks founder made his first appearance in weeks, speaking with an interviewer for a conference in Beirut" including comments about the recent death of Fidel Castro.
Assange is also in the running to be chosen as "Person of the Year" in Time magazine's annual online reader's poll, and last Monday even moved briefly into first place, inching past Donald Trump. "It's worth noting that the poll presents people alphabetically," Time reported, "so Assange is the first option participants consider and Trump comes near the end of the poll."
I think the poll's being hacked by state actors, since Vladimir Putin now leads with 38%, followed by Theresa May (16%) and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un (13%), and Donald Trump is locked in a tie for fourth place with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 9%. Time worked with Opentopic and IBM's Watson to assemble the initial list for reader's votes, which also included Apple CEO Tim Cook and FBI director James Comey. Surprisingly, a few celebrities also turned up on the list too, including comedian Samantha Bee, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles.
Assange is also in the running to be chosen as "Person of the Year" in Time magazine's annual online reader's poll, and last Monday even moved briefly into first place, inching past Donald Trump. "It's worth noting that the poll presents people alphabetically," Time reported, "so Assange is the first option participants consider and Trump comes near the end of the poll."
I think the poll's being hacked by state actors, since Vladimir Putin now leads with 38%, followed by Theresa May (16%) and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un (13%), and Donald Trump is locked in a tie for fourth place with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 9%. Time worked with Opentopic and IBM's Watson to assemble the initial list for reader's votes, which also included Apple CEO Tim Cook and FBI director James Comey. Surprisingly, a few celebrities also turned up on the list too, including comedian Samantha Bee, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles.
Not by an online poll at the very least.
This is a reader poll. It's a different thing and like any other internet poll it means very little.
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Trump is always in the news either because of his own scandalous mouthing (or thumbing) off or because of his haters' constant hate and prejudices. He basically won the highest position on Earth by being in the news all the time.
With his "influence", he already killed the TPP as a side-effect of not yet taking office and he moved the powerful USD up and down for the past 6 months.
Maybe undisclosed "Russian hackers" can be runner up..
Nigel Farage
TIME, aside from the usual Lib bias, has a bizarre sense of newsmakers. Last year, they made it Angela Merkel. In 2001, they made it Osama. They'll give it to anyone unless he happens to be a Republican achiever that year. From what I recall, President Bush never got it.
If the poll is being hacked, good for them! Ideally, it should be Trump, since he had been firing on all cylinders throughout the year, not just since the Dem convention. Wikileaks came into the picture only at the DNC convention, when they exposed the shenanigans of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and subsequently on the Clinton emails. Putin did nothing this year that stood out from any other year - intervention in Syria, while important, doesn't count. (That is an achievement Putin could have claimed in 2013, when the Assad regime stood alone amongst Arab regimes in not collapsing, unlike Egypt, Libya and Tunisia). Teresa May would get it somewhat by fluke, since the real hero of Brexit was Nigel Farage. Kim Jong Un's fireworks displays don't earn it either. And Narendra Modi would have deserved it 2 years ago, when he got elected by the largest ever landslide. He really didn't do much to earn that this year.
They'll give it to anyone unless he happens to be a Republican achiever that year.
Achiever? I'm not sure you quite get what the "award" is for. Past "winners" include Hitler, Stalin, and even Henry Kissinger.
From what I recall, President Bush never got it.
HW got it, and W twice. You mean Jeb?
yet oddly, that is exactly what people like you focused on. Not the story itself, but the source.
I'd prefer it if you didn't put political leanings in my mouth. I didn't vote for Trump (or Clinton for that matter) but once again you attack the messenger rather than the message. Also, if you're going to complain about the other side doing something (rightly or not) you probably shouldn't also do that thing yourself.
Also for what it's worth, you probably posted stories that confirm to your biases. It doesn't make you a bad person, actually it just makes you an ordinary person. You probably ignored factual stories that didn't support your preconceived notions or tried to find some reason to ignore them (like wrong messenger) so that your brain didn't have to consider information that conflicts with its existing choice.
Pretty much everyone (my own self included) does this, but it's not really helpful. It's the same reason why there are some people who wouldn't be convinced of climate change if their dear lord Jeebus himself descended from heaven and told them it was all true. I suspect you'd agree with me that those people are acting rather silly, so wouldn't it be better if we tried not to act like them?
If you get modded down its probably for going off-topic while essentially trying to rationalize why it's okay for you to attack the messenger, but not those other silly people. You even ended by creating a scenario in which you expect to use any perceived victimization as further proof that you're correct and everyone else is just out to get you. As far as that line of reasoning is concerned both a +5 and -1 moderation support your idea that you're correct. Seems like a rather flawed test does it not?
And what did Manning do to earn any respect from the US military and civil agencies? He should have tried to introduce his fragile mental health to bolster his defense.
And Assange has voluntarily put himself in prison for the last 4 years with no end in sight. If he ever enters a court room in Europe or the US he should definitely use his mental health as part of his defense. Assange and Manning are both the victims of their own stupidity. I guess this also applies to Snowden. Can anyone tell me why he did not go public until he was living in a country willing to shelter him? Nobody was chasing him before he went public? He is probably getting a little nervous about Russia turning him over to US as a good will gesture for the incoming government. Russia didn't give him asylum because they agreed with his actions they gave him asylum to annoy the US authorities. But now Putin really needs some of the sanctions imposed on his government and handing over Snowden may trigger some sanctions relief.