Commenters: if you won't resist the temptation to rehash stale political controversy out of respect for a human person, then please resist because it's dreadfully tedious and obviously against the guidelines.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html