Am I surprised that he would intentionally choose to use a method like this, that guarantees a search? Absolutely not.
In the 2020 WA state governor election he ran on a very hard right platform. My personal opinion is that he knew he didn't have much chance of winning, due to population balance on the west side of the state, so he decided to double down on all the things his hard-core supporters loved most.
"highly problematic individual" is as lazy as saying someone's "bad" or "evil" just in more modern wording. Be more specific please.
And that link doesn't help either: it's just a picture of the guy and a bunch of links to his twitter and some bland news headlines about his political run. No smoking gun that I can see.
If you want specifics, he's given credence to qanon conspiracy theories, antivaccine and covid19 conspiracy theories, and parroted the same rhetoric as alt-right racist ideologues.
And then, after he lost the election by a very wide margin, followed the example of Trump by spouting baseless conspiracy theories that the election was a giant fraud and stolen from him, despite no evidence of such appearing.
I don't think this snarkyness is warranted. Your parent poster didn't argue against your claim, they simply asked you to present a coherent claim with references.
People tend to react in a less that perfectly polite manner when being called "lazy" by random persons on the internet (for reference: in the top 20 google results at the link I originally provided are many instances of Culp taking "problematic" positions, such as denying that he lost the election and crying fraud for months after November, which is a sign of being detached from reality).
>> "highly problematic individual" is as lazy as saying someone's "bad" or "evil" just in more modern wording.
> People tend to react in a less that perfectly polite manner when being called "lazy"
Parent poster didn't call you (as a person) lazy. They called the wording you chose as lazy. FWIW, I agree with that characterization. It's lazy to just call people "problematic" without bothering to specify what is problematic about them (which you have since done in a subsequent post).
I didn't flag or downvote the post. I just asked for some civility. If you feel like it doesn't add to the discussion, that's your opinion and you are free to express it. (And I didn't downvote you either.)
OP is not the HN police, but every HN user is an HN moderator. It doesn't say so anywhere, but in practice that's what the up/downvote controls and flag links do.
Or did you really believe dang is the only HN moderator? :)
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Am I surprised that he would intentionally choose to use a method like this, that guarantees a search? Absolutely not.
In the 2020 WA state governor election he ran on a very hard right platform. My personal opinion is that he knew he didn't have much chance of winning, due to population balance on the west side of the state, so he decided to double down on all the things his hard-core supporters loved most.