I think it's probably got more to do with the "every accusation is a confession" principle that modern conservatism seems to operate under.

How would it occur to you that a guy rescuing kids trapped in a cave is a pedophile? Who knows, but Elon did anyway.

Its shit heel behavior, but there was the Jerry Sandusky revelations at Penn state, the same university where Mann worked at the time.

These shit heads just used an actually evil bastard that was in the news to drum up clicks and vilify Mann in the worst way possible at the same time.

They actually like child molestation, but only when their side is doing it, otherwise they use it as an insult.

When I was a kid everything my family didn't like was satanic. Boy getting a piercing, wearing a sweatband, non-baby boomer music.

Conservatives really do build up this whole terrible world in which they are the only heroes and anything they do is ok. They don't think he is a child molester, they said it for shock value alone and are now giving us the shocked Pikachu face.

Wackos used to call everything they hated, "communist" but switch names because their beloved Putin is pretty communist.

Accusations like that are often confessions.

Was Bobby Barnes not available? I hear he has experience defending defamation lawsuits

Kinda like all the work Joe Biden has been doing for 11 years in the executive?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration

On his first day in office, Biden began to make policy changes to protect the environment. He began revising and strengthening the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and ordered a number of executive orders aimed at reviewing or undoing the environmental policies of the former administration, including removal of some wildlife protections,[8] the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline,[9] and drilling for oil and gas on federal lands.[10] He promised to end and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030.[11] As a first step in recognizing the impact of climate change on less developed nations—an impact which is largely the result of years of environmental damage caused by nations which have prospered—Biden signed an executive order to study the effects of climate change's impact on migration, including "options for protection and resettlement."[12] Biden appointed Pete Buttigieg as the Secretary of Transportation, and he is expected to work with the administration to reduce carbon emissions with plans such as improved public transportation, building a national network of electric vehicle chargers, and other strategies to reduce emissions.[13]

The Biden administration delivered a tax plan to congress that aims to start winding back fossil fuel subsidies, replacing the subsidies with incentives to start producing green energy.[14] His proposed budget includes a 30% increase in clean energy research and development, $2 billion to be invested in green energy projects and $6.5 billion to lend to rural communities in support of additional green energy, power storage, and transmission projects.[15] Biden has ordered the amount of energy produced from offshore wind turbines to be doubled by 2030.[16][17]

In August 2022, Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes the largest federal climate change investment in American history ($391 billion).[18][19] With this law and additional federal and state measures, the USA can fulfill its pledge in Paris agreement: 50% greenhouse gas emissions reduction by the year 2030.[20][21]

If we are still in the "someday, when we take it serious" timeline, then it's probably too late anyway.

Notice how the judgement is always against flunkies like simberg and not the Exxons paying them. What would the jury have awarded if they had the whole story and the proper defendant? Probably more than 1M.