A 20-year-old man was arrested by SFPD after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The suspect was also reportedly linked to threats made at OpenAI's headquarters, and police identified him from a photo showing him with a bottle in hand. The arrest came just hours after the incident.

Let's be clear about something: you don't have to like Sam Altman. You don't have to like OpenAI, or AI in general, or the fact that San Francisco's tech elite live in multi-million-dollar homes while the city can't keep its sidewalks clean. All of that can be true, and it's still completely unacceptable to firebomb someone's house.

This should be an easy consensus. It is not.

Scroll through the online discourse and you'll find a genuinely disturbing amount of shrugging — or worse, cheerleading. As one local on Reddit quipped, "If you can't serve up a Molotov cocktail on Russian Hill, where can you?" Another joked about feeling "safer if the suspect was released immediately" because San Francisco has "too many rogue CEOs on the streets, peddling addictive technology." Funny? Maybe. But the jokes mask something darker — a growing normalization of political violence against individuals people have decided deserve it.

We've seen this pattern accelerating. The Luigi Mangione saga turned an alleged murderer into a folk hero. Now we're lobbing incendiary devices at homes in residential neighborhoods where families live, where neighbors sleep. This isn't protest. This isn't accountability. It's terrorism, and dressing it up in anti-capitalist aesthetics doesn't change that.

Credit where it's due: SFPD moved fast on this one, identifying and arresting the suspect within hours. That's the kind of swift law enforcement response this city needs more of — not just when the victim is a billionaire, but every time someone's safety is threatened.

And that's the real test. If we only care about arson when it happens on Russian Hill, we've missed the point entirely. Every San Franciscan deserves to feel safe in their home, regardless of net worth. The rule of law isn't optional just because you disagree with someone's business model.