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Who is the worst human alive right now in the world?

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Shmoigel · 06/09/2026 10:16

My husband and I were having a discussion and there were a lot of candidates!!

Who is the most despicable human in the world right now?

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HRTQueen · 07/09/2026 01:24

I’m also adding Taliban leaders the cruelty of this regime is off the scale it’s tragic they came back in power

Calendulaaria · 07/09/2026 01:30

Greenwoodmac · 06/09/2026 23:14

erm ok…let’s not be so tunnel vision focussed…
some examples
Trump has denied women access to abortion care not only in US but abroad too
Women and girls have died because of it
Look at the genocide he’s supported in Gaza - all the women and children who have died and suffered during this barbaric cleansing
As I said, this shit manifests in different ways

I have answered the original question and then defended it when you didn't agree with it. You want to think Trump is the worst human being alive, go ahead. I think it's the leader of Afghanistan where women can't get medical care, speak or sing in public, uncover their bodies or have any safety from rape or beatings and then men there just go along with it. Women have no rights there at all. We don't agree, that doesn't make tunnel vision focused.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 04:50

Toomuchtoooften · 06/09/2026 17:04

I wouldn’t claim superiority in the west when we have Western ‘leaders’ like Trump and Netanyahu

What country do you think Netanyahu is Prime Minister of? Because you obviously don’t realise he is Prime Minister of the Middle Eastern country of Israel.

Netanyahu isn’t Western.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 04:52

Toomuchtoooften · 06/09/2026 17:05

There isn’t a genocide in Gaza and if you were curious enough to look into this, you’d realise this too.

Nah. There definitely is. Not to say that October 7th wasn’t an appalling abomination. Nevertheless…

maxslice · 07/09/2026 04:53

Greenwoodmac · 06/09/2026 17:08

Erm The United Nations, World Health Organization etc all have confirmed a genocide. No idea what you’re talking about

This.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 04:57

Toomuchtoooften · 06/09/2026 17:37

How can these bodies have confirmed this, when genocide is a legal issue determined by a court. A UN mandate has made accusations that is all. It is in no position to confirm anything. The UN is a highly political body, not a neutral onbe. It’s mandate has no legal standing. The WHO is a public health body and has no ‘confirmed ‘ this as this is completely out of their remit. If you are going to throw around accusations of ‘genocide being confirmed’, ypu should fact check what that phrase actually means. It’s a legal term, with legal meanings that is ruled on by a court.

For there to be a legal ruling of genocide the INTENT is crucial. A group who wants to kill an entire ethnic group/ nation of people etc but does not have capacity to kill them all can still be guilty of genocide. Under this, the Hamas attack of Oct 7th arguably are genocidal as it seems clear they would have killed all Israelis if they had the capacity ( they don’t hide their intent to Israelis). However, Israel very clearly does have the ability to kill all Gazans and yet the official death rate from Hamas’s own figures, (which includes all deaths not those who have died as a result of war, so around a fifth are accounted for by causes other than war, and includes combatants) is under 80k of a population of 2.1million. The war, thanks entirely to Israel, has the lowest civilian to combatant death rate of any urban war - how is that genocide? Israel took huge steps to warn civilians of upcoming attacks ( unlike Hamas attacks on Israel) so they could flee and live, enabled food to get to the population, created a humanitarian corridor for people to return home, and undertook polio vaccination of Gazan children. None of that is consistent with genocide.

Demonising Jews with false accusations of grotesque crimes of genocide or ‘child/ baby killers’ is however consistent with anti/-Semitism. You may not be aware that accusing Jews of killing children is an anti-Semitic libel thar has existed since at least the Middle Ages.

Intent is quite clear in the attacks on Gaza, as to be fair, are the attacks on Israel. To pretend otherwise is silly and disingenuous. Possibly, dangerous. Some things aren’t either/or, they’re yes/and.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:01

SevenYellowHammers · 06/09/2026 18:23

How does “virtue singing” go then? Can you hum it for us?

The song “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better” from, I think, the musical “Annie Get Your Gun” comes to mind.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:04

CatBusStop · 06/09/2026 18:45

Stephen Miller

He is so creepy and sinister. He gives me the heebie jeebies.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:10

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 07/09/2026 00:25

Meghan Markle, apparently.

She’s not smart or interesting enough to be a
full on villain. She’s just a boring, vain, not too bright attention seeker who says what she really wants is privacy. She’s not evil, just tedious.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:13

Pineneedlesincarpet · 06/09/2026 12:08

Whats the score with Jimmy Carr?

He’s not evil; he’s simply an opportunist.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:15

spottybelly · 06/09/2026 12:26

I refused to give my cats more dreamies this morning so apparently it's me.

Oh,YOU’RE the one! I heard my kitties gossiping about someone…

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:19

MaggieBsBoat · 06/09/2026 10:32

I bet you’re fun at parties.

You think people invite them to parties?

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:20

Coconutter24 · 06/09/2026 10:35

Why?

Erm… because he’s a raging anal aperture?

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:20

RedToothBrush · 06/09/2026 10:40

Surprisingly so.

Shame you didn't get the invite.

Not everyone likes to attend a hanging.

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:25

Theotheron · 06/09/2026 11:04

I hope it’s not me.

Nah, you’re good.

PleaseDontAsk · 07/09/2026 05:26

Shmoigel · 06/09/2026 10:16

My husband and I were having a discussion and there were a lot of candidates!!

Who is the most despicable human in the world right now?

It can't be known.

You probably think of people like world leaders, but quite honestly, there are some people in the world you know, nothing about m committing the most extreme violent crimes, treating women appallingly, abusing people running drug rings, who are in organised crime, get clean away with it and you wouldn't know anything about it.

Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere's largest, most sophisticated and violent organised criminal groups. A two-year war between rival Cartel factions is driving a surge in killings and disappearances targeting women. Just one example on a global scale.

Never understood the point of these questions how can you possibly know. World leaders is lame: Everybody knows trump and putin are bad. It's the people you don't know about that are contenders.

Crissy81 · 07/09/2026 05:40

Any Human whose only purpose is to control others and destroy them if necessary, that person is simply set out to destroy Human life for their own gratification. They are the worst. These individuals are often known, religious, hardline ideological leaders, they can also be regular people and they can also be the hidden advisers behind the likes of popular figures that often get cited as the worst in the world.

Is a battered housewife going to think any politician is worse than her bastard husband?

Its impossible to say who the worst is, its not about who the worst is but just how widespread the worst of Human behaviour is spreading. Im sure none of us have to look far to find a person who exists in their own sociopathic or psychopathic mind simply for their own gratification.

That person is causing endless havoc to someones world.

spottybelly · 07/09/2026 06:08

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:15

Oh,YOU’RE the one! I heard my kitties gossiping about someone…

😄

JustAboutMuddlingThrough · 07/09/2026 06:24

Ratherhaveacupofteaandabiscuit · 06/09/2026 10:17

A toss up between Putin, Trump, Farage and my ex husband.

same

CatBusStop · 07/09/2026 06:35

maxslice · 07/09/2026 05:04

He is so creepy and sinister. He gives me the heebie jeebies.

We just realised he looks like Voldemort

Thesearenotthedroids · 07/09/2026 06:36

It's whoever serves trump his morning coffee. Just use the poison FFS!

Septembersunrays · 07/09/2026 06:44

5MinuteArgument · 06/09/2026 19:00

I think Putin is the worst having directly caused the death and maiming of hundreds of thousands of people in a land grab to expand his country's borders.

I would say Xi Jingping of China comes in second having oppressed and killed thousands of his own people and ethnic minorities within China, largely without much protest from the rest of the world.

Is also add kim Jon ung and leaders of any countries like Iran, saudi most Arab nations where medieval cultures are embedded causing a lack of real freedoms ,no standards on prisoners and so on and of course the Taliban ,vicious evil wicked people. ..

2017SoFarSoGood · 07/09/2026 07:31

Trump

Toomuchtoooften · 07/09/2026 10:34

maxslice · 07/09/2026 04:57

Intent is quite clear in the attacks on Gaza, as to be fair, are the attacks on Israel. To pretend otherwise is silly and disingenuous. Possibly, dangerous. Some things aren’t either/or, they’re yes/and.

I agree that it quite clear from the way Israel conducted its defensive war against Gaza to deduce its intent. The extremely low civilian casualities for an urban war ( the lowest in any urban war compared to combatant deaths), the warnings of attacks so civilians could move to safety, ensuring food convoys to civilians and humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to return home, vaccinating children against polio. I agree that all that makes its clear that the intent of Israel was to preserve civilian life in the state who attacked it.

Its also clear, from Hamas's own footage of their own terrorist attack, as they murdered civilian babies, children, women and men, face to face, mutilated bodies (the testimony of the women who prepared the female victims for burial was that none were in a state where they could be showed to their families, they were repeatedly shot in the groin and face to disfigure them), filmed themselves going around the civilian towns shouting ' where are the Jews? Where are the Jewish dogs', and filmed themselves laughing and enjoying themselves on their deliberately sadistic killing spree, that they their intent was to murder as many civilians of all ages as possible and to rejoice in it.

The difference in intent is discernable. There is no equivalence when you actually look at what has happened in reality.

Toomuchtoooften · 07/09/2026 10:35

maxslice · 07/09/2026 04:52

Nah. There definitely is. Not to say that October 7th wasn’t an appalling abomination. Nevertheless…

Oh look. Yet another person on the thread who states there is a genocide yet provides no evidence for this. Look over my posts and come back if you can refute the claims made.

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