“Posting was his real passion,” said one of the chat participants, adding: “He loved it.” The friend said Rodriguez had drawn inspiration as a kid from the niche but culturally influential forum website Something Awful, particularly its irony-laced, misanthropic subforum, FYAD (short for “Fuck You And Die”).

“I’m almost surprised you’re not antisemitic Elias,” a chat member once wrote. “It usually goes hand and hand [sic] with the whole Stalin did nothing wrong mantra,” alluding to Rodriguez’s support for old school communism.

“One of the biggest things that stalin [sic] didn’t do wrong was ending the most antisemitic regime ever yet known 2 man,” Rodriguez responded.

The chat logs reveal a man who hated the Republican and Democratic parties, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the right and left, the “bourgeoisie,” the United States, the West, and, of course, Israel. He even hated the only political group I could find he’d associated with.