More on who Elias Rodriguez is

Ken Klippenstein, a week after posting the manifesto of alleged Israeli embassy shooter Elias Rodriguez, then getting visited about that by browbeating (and lying) FBI agents, posted a transcript of various online chats of his, along with pulling out highlights of them.

Kudos to Ken for posting this, and showing clearly that Elias Rodriguez was anti-Zionist but certainly not antisemitic.

That said, he WAS thrown off in other ways. His youthful Communist purity rants remind me of a more intense version of a Rainer Shea from the People’s Republic of Humboldt County. Even if China is no longer doing slave labor in Xinjiang, it once was. And, it does have poverty, and other social problems, like homelessness.

And Rodriguez' attitude toward an online friend whose brother has schizophrenia is repulsive. There’s no other way about it.

So, beyond the violence itself, there’s other reasons not to glorify Elias Rodriguez.

Also? Beyond its trying to browbeat Ken, there’s trillions of other reasons not to glorify the FBI, which can in general fuck off.

There's also another reason to hate on Elmo Musk. A full week after the shootings, he is having Shitter censor searches for Rodriguez by name or Shitter handle. The Dissident has details. And, given that Musk, via DOGE, is a quasi-governmental actor, this is censorship in the narrow, legal First Amendment version, per my take.