“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.
Still, when it came to race, Rodriquez’s hatred seemed reserved for white people.
“Lol you probably would have to actually genocide white people to make this a normal country,” Rodriguez wrote in one post. “Like even a very targeted and selective rehabilitation program would probably have to lead to the lifetime imprisonments of tens of millions of white people.”
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In all his rage though, Rodriguez had an almost wide-eyed optimism about the global south, which as a self-identified Maoist Third Worldist, he believed alone had “revolutionary potential.”
China is doing it to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang right now. 500 million people in prison. Putting the ethics aside, I’ve found it a pretty huge inspiration for my Factorio playthrough to try to replicate the logistical achievement.
Yes of course the PRC has 50% of the Chinese population in prison. This makes total sense.
Mao once said that political power grows out the center of a TARDIS, that’s how they manage to find enough space for everyone.
China is an authoritarian state, they mandate that the 50% least loyal population are uygulag’d at all times.
How else are they supposed to transition to green energy as quickly as they are? Extracting electricity directly from the human body is the cleanest energy possible