In all seriousness I feel like the common answers I saw of Diogenes (because that was like, his entire shtick) or Socrates (because they killed him for being annoying) are probably better answers but saying its Trotsky on a leftist forum is way funnier.
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I may be biased because computer science and engineering are some of my deepest passions, and this Dunning Kruger dipshit has managed to gain an entirely unwarranted degree of trust to speak about the subjects. I also personally know people who got suckered into his cult.
How has no one said Ayn Rand
I mentioned her to a communist friend as a possibility, and he said “her movement is obviously annoying, but if you watch her in interviews you might be suprised”. I said I hadnt, so he sent me one with Mike Wallace that she did.
Kinda interesting. She was surprisingly charismatic in a way. The words she was saying annoyed me obviously, but on pure personality I could see what my friend meant. If anything, the more annoying person on screen was Mike Wallace lol. He pressed her pretty hard (which to be clear is a good thing) and it was offputting in a way even though I sided him him doing so.
Russel Brand takes the top spot easily
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Trotsky himself COULD be sophisticated, and I think he wrote somewhere that had he been in power instead of Stalin those 5 year plans wouldn’t have been that much less painful, but the political movement he left behind produced some of the more simplistic narratives about socialism ever, on par with “muh human nature” shit
He did some genuinely intelligent things during the revolution. It’s a shame the power struggle and his theories turned out the way it did, the movement he left behind, as you say, is incredibly annoying.
Ptolemy that little shit
Martin Luther reminds me of Destiny
Read this if you want to find out how much of a craven bootlicker Martin Luther was
Nailing 95 theses against tankies to my ex-wife’s door in the hopes she’ll call me to complain.
It never ceases to amaze me that he went off half cocked with a bad translation and became a bigot instead of engaging in self crit. Like this is the guy who started a movement? Bruh embraced hatred before admitting he fucked up bad and is somehow the most influential figure of his time.
And we’re all still paying for it in blood.
My hate for Elon Musk is pure. Every time he opens his yap it’s the stupidest shit, like so on the nose obvious bullshit.
Trotsky is the worst even more so for the legacy he left behind. Empowering these fucking nerds to create orgs that gotcha AES countries and fall in line with the imperialist core talking points all the while claiming the banner of Socialists.
Which orgs are you referring to? There’s been a few splits lol
Trotsky is a good answer and funny for leftists to say.
Cicero also works.
Charles De Gaulle is also a possibility.
But without Charles De Gaulle we lose one of my favorite quotes!
not super evil
De Gaulle is responsible for thousands of deaths in Africa
my b I guess I only registered the “annoying” part of the question
I guess… but he’s also responsible for this… from Lightiggy’s post in reddit…
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Silly, but he did it because they’re Arabs/amazighs, not because they were traitors.
I know this is a shitpost, but the real reason Socrates was executed was his real or perceived ties with the dictatorship of the 30, which took power after they lost Peloponesian war, and killed a bunch of athenians.
I.F. Stone Breaks the Socrates Story: An old muckraker sheds fresh light on the 2,500-year-old mystery and reveals some Athenian political realities that Plato did his best to hide.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/ifstoneinterview.html
Huh, but also I’m sure him being insufferable did not help.
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I vote for my older sister circa when we were teenagers
Socrates seems in the running for this
Dude was so annoying he was forced to choose between social or literal suicide and chose to become a martyr for debate bros everywhere.
Matthew Yglesias
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