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Time’s 2020 Person Of The Year Has Just Been Announced

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have become Time magazine’s 2020 person – or persons – of the year.

“Together, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket,” The magazine said. “And America bought what they were selling: after the highest turnout in a century, they racked up 81 million votes and counting, the most in presidential history, topping Trump by some 7 million votes and flipping five battleground states.”

The magazine has been choosing the year’s most influential person since 1927.

Donald Trump also won the award as president-elect in 2016. His predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush were each named person of the year twice after their election victories. Last year, the winner was climate activist Greta Thunberg.

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78-year-old Biden will be the oldest person ever to assume the presidency and he is also the oldest ever to be named Person of the Year by the magazine.

Harris is the country’s first female, first Black, and first South Asian vice president-elect.

“If Donald Trump was a force for disruption and division over the past four years, Biden and Harris show where the nation is heading: a blend of ethnicities, lived experiences, and worldviews that must find a way forward together if the American experiment is to survive,” the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal said.

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The Person of the Year title hasn’t always been an “honour”. In 1938, it was given to Adolf Hitler.

Even though the magazine admired him for stealing Austria “before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world”. It is the final line of its announcement that’s the most chilling: “To those who watched the closing events of the year it seemed more than probable that the Man of 1938 may make 1939 a year to be remembered.”

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Along with its Person of the Year honor, Time magazine named its Guardians of the Year

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I'm a visual editor at Bored Panda. I kickstart my day with a mug of coffee bigger than my head, ready to tackle Photoshop. I navigate through the digital jungle with finesse, fueled by bamboo breaks and caffeine kicks. When the workday winds down, you might catch me devouring bamboo snacks while binging on the latest TV show, gaming or I could be out in nature, soaking up the tranquility and communing with my inner panda.

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

What do you think ?

Bowtechie 3 years ago

I honestly feel Fauci should have gotten the title. His fight against rampant willful ignorance in the face of the pandemic should hold more weight than the election.

19points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

If there was a vote, I’d have absolutely voted for Fauci too. But it makes sense to have Jomala, especially since it’s a historic moment for women and minorities.

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Jack Holt 3 years ago

This seems very american-centric. Especially when the country has tragically completely failed to control the virus. I am glad that Biden and Harris inspire hope, as hope is desperately needed. However, I think the whistleblower Chinese doctor Li Wenliang who paid for his life trying to alert the world to tgis deadly virus would've been more deserving.

8points

lisa_feuer 3 years ago

Jack Holt what

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H Edwards 3 years ago

Are all the butt-hurt Trumpers forgetting that their guy won it in 2016?

4points

TheSneakyNinja 3 years ago (edited)

Yeah, that's true. Putin was also their person of the year once. But I do think they favor Biden and Harris more than Trump. There is a huge difference in what they wrote about them. Maybe that's what people are mad about? Or that it's on Bored Panda? I suppose people can say what they want though about this though.

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Bowtechie 3 years ago

I honestly feel Fauci should have gotten the title. His fight against rampant willful ignorance in the face of the pandemic should hold more weight than the election.

19points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

If there was a vote, I’d have absolutely voted for Fauci too. But it makes sense to have Jomala, especially since it’s a historic moment for women and minorities.

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Jack Holt 3 years ago

This seems very american-centric. Especially when the country has tragically completely failed to control the virus. I am glad that Biden and Harris inspire hope, as hope is desperately needed. However, I think the whistleblower Chinese doctor Li Wenliang who paid for his life trying to alert the world to tgis deadly virus would've been more deserving.

8points

lisa_feuer 3 years ago

Jack Holt what

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H Edwards 3 years ago

Are all the butt-hurt Trumpers forgetting that their guy won it in 2016?

4points

TheSneakyNinja 3 years ago (edited)

Yeah, that's true. Putin was also their person of the year once. But I do think they favor Biden and Harris more than Trump. There is a huge difference in what they wrote about them. Maybe that's what people are mad about? Or that it's on Bored Panda? I suppose people can say what they want though about this though.

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