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person of the year

tritium · 2014-11-16 09:36:49

Since the year is rapidly running down I thought it might be useful to, in the spirit of Time magazine, have a TGC Person of the Year from a male perspective (hopefully we can avoid some of Times more unfortunate winners) So with that in mind, who is the person (or group) who has had the greatest impact on humanity this…

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#32 24-11-2014 3:13pm
Saipanne

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Fate Amenable To Change wrote: »

Apparently they've got some serious funding behind them from oil countries.

The Wikipedia areicle is quite detailed

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#33 24-11-2014 3:18pm
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Starokan wrote: »

I'm still trying to figure out how they actually managed to gain so much territory.

It seems that the Iraqi defence forces are completely incompetent and have given up without even trying to put up any resistance in many cases. Also, there is little or no cohesive government, not to mention a strong leader who the nation can unite behind. Just goes to show that sometimes you need to be careful what you wish for, it might be better in the mid to long term to deal with the devil you know ...

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