[llamaimperative]

Some people don’t like elevating leaders who openly flout and degrade our culture’s expectations of how leaders behave. Some of those are silly, of course, but some of them are not. For example, a leader should be knocked down a few notches if they’re calling rescue workers pedophiles for no reason. They should be knocked down a few more for impregnating their employees. They should be knocked down for throwing childish insults at their business associates.

Nothing to do with politics and everything to do with not wanting to live in a world where all of these things become the norm.

[hn2017]

How Musk has tumbled so quickly will go down in history books. Now he's spouting conspiracy theories.

[incahoots]

Grifting pays big money and gains you attention.

[docmars]

I feel the same about Hillary. She shared a conspiracy theory this last week that Paul Pelosi's attacker was a right-wing extremist.

It was found later that the alleged "blog" David created wasn't created long ago and was taken down pretty swiftly after the attack, showing that this was created as a prop for a political stunt before midterms.

The residence for the attacker, David, was found to be a hippie commune with a gay pride marijuana flag in their front yard. Does anyone really think this guy was a far righty? Give me a break.

[llamaimperative]

For readers, AFAICT the evidence that his blogs were created immediately before and deleted immediately after the attack is that the Wayback Machine hadn't indexed them prior to being linked to by major media outlets.

[mechanical_bear]

All of my conservative friends live in Berkeley, attend nudist weddings, and live in Communes. Don’t yours?

[rat87]

The attacker is a far right extremist. That's fact. He might have once been fairly left wing but has been on the far right for a while.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/10/29/fea...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/What-we-know-about...

> He published multiple blogs laced with statements about the QAnon mass delusion, whose adherents believe former President Donald Trump stands against an alliance of Satan-worshipping Democratic pedophiles. The blog also included bigoted commentary directed at people of color, women, Jewish people, Muslims, members of the LGBTQ community and immigrants.

[hn2017]

I'm afraid it's too late, HN has become an right-wing echo-chamber