Posted on 04/06/2019 7:07:00 AM PDT by Twotone
Have you ever wondered who the evilest people to ever walk this earth are? Adolf Hitler always seems to be the go-to reference in such conversations. It is a difficult thing to quantify. Do we do it statistically — that is, according to who killed the most people — or should it be based on their evil influence on history? My list relies on both. Of course, it’s totally subjective, but those making the Top Ten might surprise you. So, starting in reverse order, I give you a list of people who will make you feel better about yourself:
10. (tie) The Kims: Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong-un
This is quite possibly history’s worst political dynasty. In addition to starting the Korean War that killed 3 million people and their refusal to officially end that conflict, this grandfather-son-grandson trio has created one of the most repressive regimes in the world. Without the protection of a meaningful constitution and the Rule of Law, citizens are frequently starved, beaten, imprisoned, murdered, indoctrinated, and forced to worship the Supreme Leader. At least North Korea serves as a nice answer for millennials who ask, “Dad, what was the Soviet Union like?”
9. The Sanhedrin of Jesus’ Day
Somebody from the Bible should make this list, and while there are a number of fine nominees, I decided it should be the majority of those who were members of the Sanhedrin in Jesus’ day. Why? Many who reject Jesus as the Son of God do so because they didn’t see his miracles or hear his teaching. By contrast, the Sanhedrin saw and heard both. Rather than believing in Jesus when they saw him perform miracles, their hatred for him grew.
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I agree in that I would certainly put him on the list.
But I will leave it to the Lord to make these final judgments. Being famous and being evil are not synonymous.
And for those who like to portray JFK as some sort of functional conservative:
George Soros became an American citizen during his administration - when the USA still had a moratorium on immigration.
JFK also created public unions by EO - thus enabling and empowering the Deep State to become what it is today: virtually invulnerable to eradication.
That drug-and-sex-soaked adulterer and reprobate - the exemplar for Bill Clinton - was no kind of conservative.
Instead, the administration of the evil JFK made the more evil Soros an American citizen - while we had a moratorium on immigration.
Without the enormous protection of American citizenship, might Soros have been incarcerated long before now?
“Maybe Andrew Jackson?> Hitler said he was inspired by the genocide of native americans.”
except that Andrew Jackson forced the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws to the far side of the Mississippi River, he didn’t try to slaughter them. Jackson in fact raised an orphaned Indian boy, Lyncoya, at his farm.
If you want to find an example of people who wanted to kill all of the Indians you might try Philip Sheridan or John Pope.
Apparently Louis isn’t familiar with Karl Marx’s enthusiasm for Abe Lincoln and the Radical Republicans.
Marx closely followed the American Civil War as a correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. And as the secretary for the First International he drafted their letter of support to Lincoln.
Marxists, including the original one, saw Lincoln as being ‘on the right side of history’ unlike the hated reactionaries of the Old South. A number of Marx’s exiled ‘48er comrades were involved in the founding of the Republican Party and even held government and army positions.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2012/08/lincoln-and-marx
Ghengis Khan and Tamerlane didn’t even make the cut.
It is not a matter of expanding one’s vocabulary; it is a matter of communicating effectively.
Standard English is a combination of grammar rules and common usage. There are many exceptions to the various rules, and these often result from common usage.
Whether or not one can proclaim the word, evilest, as legitimate, its usage conveys the impression of a lack of eloquence, if not actually a lack of literacy (such as, by a non-native speaker/writer).
The nominal rule is that multi-syllabic words use the modifiers more (comparative) or most (superlative); two-syllable words are mixed: The word, happiest, is common usage; the word, evilest, is not.
I consistently scored in the top half of the top one percentile of college-bound students; Standard English is something I know well.
As it happened, I read this thread in the company of a friend who has a degree in English, and who taught English and Literature (especially Shakespeare) for nearly twenty years. She also once, by the bye, coached low-income students, including ESL ones, to a first-place Academic Decathlon upset over the specially-tutored students of favored Palo Alto High School (across the street from Stanford University). She is the most literate person I know.
I asked her if she would ever endorse the use of the word, evilest. She laughed out loud. When I pressed her for her justification, she said it was not a matter of a grammar rule, per se, but one of common usage.
As an author, the only time I would use such a word would be as an element of dialogue, given to an untutored bumpkin.
Then research him before presuming to opine, as a self-appointed contrarian. He was a despicable wastral. He was too petty himself to attain the stature of this kind of evil, but he was a manifestly immoral person.
You sound like my brother when he starts ‘instructing’ why you need to listen to him.
The Sanhedrin is not one person, and thus should be in no list on any subject dealing with individual persons.
...Marx, in a leaflet supporting Polish independence, contrasted the German bourgeois liberals’ betrayal of Poland with the English workers’ support of the Northern war effort. Marx proclaimed: “The English working class has won immortal historical honor for itself by thwarting the repeated attempts of the ruling classes to intervene on behalf of the American slaveholders by its enthusiastic mass meetings, even though the prolongation of the American Civil War subjects a million English workers to the most fearful suffering and privations.”
Unfortunately, Marx’s career with the Republican Party was cut short by another economist, who might also claim some credit as the first environmental economist. Henry Charles Carey was the son of Matthew Carey, a rather anti-British bookseller and printer until his criticism of the government made him flee to Paris to avoid prosecution in England. There he met Benjamin Franklin and the Marquis De Lafayette, who gave him $400 to begin a new publishing company after he arrived in the United States. Matthew Carey was the first American political economist and the first major publisher in the country.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/25/how-karl-marx-helped-shape-the-republican-party/
Lincoln, for his part, steered his own ship, notwithstanding the blandishments of European intellectuals.
He was too petty himself to attain the stature of this kind of evil,
You declared Lincoln would be the top of the list for “marxists”, and Obama for “patriots”. Thus it was stated as fact and I disagree completely. BTW, leftists love Lincoln.
Our difference of opinion is a matter of perspective, not facts. I agree to disagree.
If the list was about the past 50 years, I'd agree, and add Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry.
But it is extremely rare, because it is very awkward; most people wanting to convey that idea use "vilest".
It is an irregular usage, however; because two-syllable adverbs are regularly made comparative by the use of "er" and "est."
And PS:
if you want to pontificate about language, you’ll have to do better than dictionary.com/.
So many options here, but in Biblical times I believe Judas Iscariot is a main contender. As it pertains to the world since then, I would agree with any of the dictators on that list. I would also add all 7 Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of Roe vs Wade, not just Harry Blackmun. And I will also add the following names as well, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Aleister Crowley and even Anton Szandor LaVey for good measure. And yes, Marx, Darwin, and Sanger all deserved their previous mentions as well.
Mo-ham-head was indwelt by Satan to vomit out the koran, making him directly and indirectly responsible for more deaths than any of them. He should be #1.
I usually leave alone the grammar failures on this forum. However, these persons were going back and forth on this issue, and I know the truth of it.
If I sounded that way - which I assume is a negative thing in your view - it is because, if I simply post a succinct reply, I am typically subjected to snarky derision in return.
I am tired of the incivility by many on this board. I was therefore establishing my bona fides before the fact, instead of after, in hope of forestalling such abuse.
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