[grosswait]

Because anti-Elon thinking is a thing that really seems to impact the judgement of some people and this kind of news really gets them to engage

[root_axis]

The "anti-Elon thinking" comes from the things Elon says and does.

[mparramon]

Like?

[root_axis]

Inflammatory partisan and identity politics activism.

Directly interfering in the u.s. government

A consistent pattern of grandiose over-promising and under-delivering in his products (FSD, robotaxis, electric-semi, boring company etc)

and plenty more

[rootusrootus]

It is nearly a perfect analog to TDS. All the way down to the uncritical supporters accusing everyone else of being the deranged ones. It would be hilarious if it did not have such a negative impact on bystanders.

[small_model]

Bingo, hacker news has this tendency hence this is on the front page.