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[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure being able to get away with breaking laws much more easily than most really makes one "lawful"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know how in Skyrim if a guard catches you breaking the law, you can just give him gold and he’ll fuck off and let you keep stealing?

It’s lawful like that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So in other words, neutral evil. He'll exploit the law to further his selfish goals like the rest of them, but he also has zero hesitation to ignore the law when that suits him better, which precludes any "lawful" alignment.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Musk and Trump are chaotic evil.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

More like chaotic moron

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lawful implies that they respect the laws...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Elon is definitely Chaotic Evil now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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 33 points 2 years ago

Trumpy is only is a billionaire in his dreams

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

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

[–] chellewalker 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

They're lawful only because they write the laws.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Musk was bald but too vain to wear it well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Awful* Evil

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dunno, I think Elon leans Chaotic.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Chaotic stupid. Definitely a murderhobo if I ever saw one

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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

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