Definitely deplorable. If he is as many claim him to be, and the info about pushing hard to control the narrative recently is accurate, the timing certainly is suspect. But part of the point of a false flag is to make it hard to discuss whether it is a false flag, and ideally to see that it is never determined one way or another.

You think Sam bombed himself? Is this what Hacker News has come to?

This is perhaps one of the stupidest things I’ve read this week.