While spez is a musk worshipping bootlicker now, back then he and most of the site were categorically against t_d. Your understanding of that time is pretty off.
If Spez wasn't taking the Trump Coin to do ideological warfare on his behalf, he'd either be out on his ass or six feet under like Aaron Swartz. Then you'd have another Millennial corporate shit to hate in his stead.
At some point, you can't hate the player, just the game.