Keeping this simple. Here is the dictionary definition of evil. Judge for yourself based on the definition. Some people will call this silly but IMO Trump fits 90% of these descriptors.
adjective
adjective: evil
- 1.
profoundly immoral and wicked.
"his evil deeds"
synonyms:wicked, bad, wrong, morally wrong, wrongful, immoral, sinful, ungodly, unholy, foul, vile, base, ignoble, dishonorable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, degenerate, villainous, nefarious, sinister, vicious, malicious, malevolent, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, dark, black-hearted; More
monstrous, shocking, despicable, atrocious, heinous, odious, contemptible, horrible, execrable;
informallowdown, stinking, dirty, shady, warped, bent, crooked;
archaicdastardly, black;
rareegregious, flagitious, peccable
"an evil deed"
antonyms:good, virtuous
- (of a force or spirit) embodying or associated with the forces of the devil.
"we were driven out of the house by an evil spirit"- harmful or tending to harm.
"stories about the evil effects of television on children make good copy"
synonyms:harmful, hurtful, injurious, detrimental, deleterious, inimical, bad, mischievous, pernicious, malignant, malign, baleful, venomous, noxious, poisonous; More
corrupting, subversive;
calamitous, disastrous, destructive, ruinous;
literarymalefic, maleficent;
rareprejudicious
"the evil influence of society"
unlucky, unfortunate, unfavorable, adverse, unhappy, disastrous, catastrophic, ruinous, calamitous, unpropitious, inauspicious, dire, woeful
"she helped those who had fallen on evil times"
“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.
The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
“True goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. ... What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”
“The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.”
“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”
"It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface.
It [evil] is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth that can be radical."
Another "tell me what I want to hear" thread.
Do you really think there is going to be any surprise here? We both know what the result will be, why bother?
He's not smart enough to be evil.
Cunning != intelligentOP, keep this shit to a single thread. Its bad enough we get the conservative dipshits mucking up shit with their concern trolling. We really don't need 100 of your non-specific Turmp threads.
I'm really baffled as you went out of your way to aggregate the stories about non-white people being harassed and treated differently into a single thread, but now you're making a new "Is Turmp ____?" thread like every day.
I could not disagree more. I think he's evil multiple ways. He's very conscious of a healthy amount of stuff he does being considered evil, but he's also subconsciously evil (basically he does things he doesn't even notice are evil, because they're just his nature, like how his go to response to anything that isn't praise is basically to lash out and insult or bully people), and also is naively evil (he does evil things because he isn't aware of the evil they do, stuff like the tax cuts - although I think that is a mix of all 3, he knows they hurt some people and doesn't care, but he doesn't understand how damaging they actually are, but its his nature to do what would benefit him and his friends the most).
There's been plenty of serial killers that were not very intelligent but knew what they were doing and knew it was wrong. And there's a lot of hateful stupid people, that hate the world because they're stupid, and have used that as justification to commit evil acts.
It’s their woobie. I like where @glenn1 is going, we should do it by D&D alignment and class.Another "tell me what I want to hear" thread.
Do you really think there is going to be any surprise here? We both know what the result will be, why bother?
This is a chance not just to spout off an opinion but show your work. Anyone with an opinion should be able to justify it.Another "tell me what I want to hear" thread.
Do you really think there is going to be any surprise here? We both know what the result will be, why bother?
Go to the top of the page, find the button that says "view results", click on it. There is the justification for my opinion.This is a chance not just to spout off an opinion but show your work. Anyone with an opinion should be able to justify it.
It’s their woobie. I like where @glenn1 is going, we should do it by D&D alignment and class.
Trump is a chaotic evil rogue
Hanna Arendt, who coined the term "the banality of evil" had a lot to say on the subject of "evil" and totalitarianism.
Decades before Trump, she captured the phenomenon of the success of Trump's constant lying and why his followers happily accept them quite perfectly:
Who Trump is, per Arendt:
Our dilemma in trying to confront him:
Cliffs:
Trump is banal.
Trump is a nobody.
So, in this sense, yes, Trump is evil.
A bard is a jack of all trades and has intimate knowledge that gives his party a buff against certain enemies.Trump would be a Bard. A one eyed Bard. A one eyed retarded Bard.. in the land of the retarded blind.
Perpetually spinning russian folk song out of tune.