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[–] woodgen@lemm.ee 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk and Trump are chaotic evil.

[–] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NAM@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Chaotic feels more appropriate, since they're only really predictable if you try and think of the absolute dumbest possible thing they could say or do at any given moment.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey. Trump probably isn't really a billionaire and has managed to get charged for crimes even though his former job made him legally above the law. I don't think lawful evil is the correct alignment.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

More like chaotic moron

[–] wombatula@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely Chaotic Evil, have you ever read his 3am rage tweets?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Nah, he's textbook neutral evil. He'll sometimes break the law to his advantage and sometimes exploit the law to his advantage. He doesn't give a fuck either way.

[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You think these folks are lawful evil? Trump has 90 some indictments against him.

[–] paholg@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

He's definitely not lawful, but I'm also not sure he belongs on a billionaire chart.

[–] Sporrik@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lawful != Following the law of the land Lawful means your justification for your actions is within the bounds of a strict personal code or creed.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, and Trump doesn’t seem to have one of those either. But I chalk that up to the brain worms more than anything else.

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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Obligatory: 'lawful' alignment doesn't necessarily entail not committing crimes, only adherence to some sort of code.

But yes, Trump doesn't do that, either.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 60 points 1 year ago

Yea gonna go ahead and say at least 6 of these scumbags are unlawful evils.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lawful implies that they respect the laws...

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe in this case Lawful implies that they buy the laws?

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Actually, I'm pretty sure Trump, being the eternal narcissist who thinks of himself being above the rules as a given, would be Neutral Evil. He wants to assert his selfish will on society IN SPITE OF the law as often as by USING the law.

The others are accurate, though.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon is definitely Chaotic Evil now.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, I'm pretty sure that he's still lawful evil. Just because the rules are getting more nonsensical and arbitrary doesn't mean that he's no longer committing evil using rules and regulations like a true lawful evil villain.

I don't know if you're one of them, but a lot of people think that chaotic evil is inherently more evil than neutral or lawful evil. It's not. It's just a different flavor of malevolence 🤷

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

Trumpy is only is a billionaire in his dreams

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

If you only use his own words as a source, yes.

[–] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does "Lawful" apply here when they're buying politicians to change those laws for them?

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lawful doesn't necessarily mean following the laws of a state, but adherence to order and hierarchy. Buying politicians to bureaucratically stack the deck in one's favor is compatible with lawful evil, for someone upholding a hierarchy in which they're (supposed to be) on top.

If it's more driven by greed than ideology, it's probably more neutral evil.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. Some of those rat fucks are straight chaotic evil. Lawful usually means they have a consistent set of ideals they follow. Rules they won't break and such. Some, like Trump and musk, would gladly break any rule they've previously set to get just a bit further ahead than others.

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[–] ipha@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

They're lawful only because they write the laws.

[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Musk was bald but too vain to wear it well.

[–] giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Awful* Evil

[–] RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno, I think Elon leans Chaotic.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Chaotic stupid. Definitely a murderhobo if I ever saw one

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

Might be switching Trump to unlawful evil in a few months here.also might be dropping him from the list entirely

[–] rsaeshalm 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Are you still a billionaire if there's a minus sign in front of your net worth?

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