The evilest person who committed the most horrendous deeds, propagated the worst ideas, or was responsible for other moustache-twirling affairs.
Anyone who is currently alive does not count.
Billionaires.
Trump and Netanyahu
Trump (yes, hoping he’s dead)
Paul the Apostle or Abraham.
At this point, putin.
God, and probably even dont exists, that makes it more impresive.
Narratively, Julius Caesar
From an aristocratic family that had just suffered a major defeat/humiliation
Floated around the Mediterranean as a bottom to powerful men
The whole, got captured by pirates, had them raise his ransom, and then returned to kill them story
Formed a shadow council to control the world
Genococided the gauls
Had a love affair with Cleopatra
Became dictator for life
Got stabbed in the back by everyone close to him
Shirō Ishii
What did they do?
Surgeon General Shirō Ishii (Japanese: 石井 四郎, Hepburn: Ishii Shirō; [iɕiː ɕiɾoː]; 25 June 1892 – 9 October 1959) was a Japanese biological weapons specialist, microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, the largest biological warfare and chemical warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 731 in the puppet state of Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945. This included the Battle of Changde, the Kaimingjie germ weapon attack, and the planned Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night biological attack against the United States, which intended to spread a weaponized bubonic plague. Ishii and his colleagues also engaged in human experimentation, resulting in the deaths of thousands of subjects, most of them civilians or prisoners of war.
Ishii was later granted immunity in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East by the United States government in exchange for information and research for the U.S. biological warfare program.
Ah yeah, that’s a pretty good contender.
Commander of Unit 731, the Imperial Japanese Army’s biological and chemical weapons “research” unit.
If you don’t know the details of their crimes, I strongly urge you not to do any research into them. Suffice to say they committed the most brutal and callous forms of torture imaginable on many thousands of people, including babies.
While Hitler, Pol Pot, Beria, and Kissinger are all good and obvious contenders, I think these will be surpassed by someone who is alive right now.
But who? Well, it’s most likely someone who already has significant resources at their disposal. For all their flaws, I don’t think the lizards of Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and Facebook have much of an agenda beyond growing their fortunes. But I am convinced we haven’t seen the final form of Peter Thiel.
Idk if Powell is alive. Ayn Rand, but she is just a fool with a strange philosophy, she can’t be responsible for what the morons did with it.
Idk if whoever founded Mossad is still alive, but they sure sabotaged and sent backwards the entire world.
Whoever took advantage of Jesus delusions, and convinced him he is the messiah, leading to a religion that would be used to stop people from taking on science.
I don’t think it’s fair to make Jesus responsible for the modern pick-and-chose followers of his religion, and I doubt modern Christianity would even be recognizable to him - the late Roman state religion is pretty different from his reformed Judaism. Plus IIRC early Christendom had some doomsday cult elements.
Couldn’t the same be said of Marx?
Look at the great leap forward, that killed millions of people due to idiotic central planning.
It’s not Jesus that caused people to not listen to science. Humans are just naturally superstitious. Religion has existed in every human civilisation since the beginning of history. Even if Christianity never arose, humans would just be following some other religions.
There will always be a story we tell about anything, whether its accurate or not. In my opinion, both science and religion are a form of storytelling.
I sorta don’t want to go down the rabbit hole. To find the answer you would literally need to compare attrocities. Im aware of quite a few but watching the actual footage of the aftermath and such is literally sickening. I’ve heard pol pot.
Cain singlehandedly killed 25% of world’s human population.
And fucked his mother.
I would like to nominate Diego de Landa, burner of the Mayan books. And a lot of Mayan people. The Mayans had books, like normal paper booms filled with Mayan writing. Histories, religion, presumably everything a society would write down. There are only four Mayan books left now. It’s all gone. It’s a tragedy that particularly boils my blood and I’m making him the final boss of a Mesoamerican-themed Pathfinder campaign I’m about to run, because I want to live out a fantasy where he gets fireballed to death or something.
Ronald Reagan
Great choice
Josef Mengele, Himmler and Hitler. Some of the heinous trio of history for doing numerous unspeakable acts of their time.
Chairman Mao Zedong.
DuPont de Nemours, Inc. or the DuPont Family rather. These guys are a huge contributing factor as to why humans could unknowingly wind up having cancers and other health-related issues directly affected by chemicals that the company has designed. They’ve had their hands in many things including wars, like napalm during Vietnam. They’ve made forever chemicals and have pumped that shit irresponsibly into hundreds of things we use everyday.
