It's not a borderline call—I'd post exactly the same thing regardless of who or what such a comment was about.
Not even close.
This guy is actively ruining society while enriching himself in the process, but we somehow can't call a spade a spade?
Pathetic.
HN's stated mandate is intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
Do you feel that your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866108 was curious (in that sense)? or was it rather that you feel something else is more important?
It's not a borderline call—I'd post exactly the same thing regardless of who or what such a comment was about.