Cults

[Guybrush]

Recently happened upon this video, and let me tell you, the story of this cult absolutely lives up to that title and then some, haha. So many twists and turns in this rabbit hole.

Oh I'm intrigued! I'm out and about and on my way to band practice, but I've added it to my Watch Later. Looking forward to it! 😊

[DJChameleon]

This cult shouldn't be branded as the transgender death cult but the vegan death cult. See being vegan makes you go insane and people shouldn't do that silly diet.

A cult-like US group known as Zizians has been linked to a string of murders, sparking several arrests – who are the people behind this group and what do they believe?

Jack Lasota, 34, who allegedly leads a group of a few dozen followers known as Zizians, was arrested on Sunday alongside Michelle Zajko, 32, and Daniel Blank, 26, on charges including trespassing and obstruction.

Authorities say they are investigating at least six killings across the US that are allegedly connected to members of the group, including a double homicide in Pennsylvania, a knife attack in California, and the shooting of a US border guard in January.

Four other alleged members of the group have already been charged with murder.

The origins of the group
Lasota, a transgender woman, is allegedly the leader of the group.

She earned a degree in computer science from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 2013 and, according to her blog, moved to the San Francisco area three years later.

There, she wrote that she applied for a series of jobs at tech companies and startups - including a brief internship with Nasa - and began to associate with people involved in the rationalist movement, an intellectual trend popular in Silicon Valley that emphasises the power of the human mind to see clear truth, eliminate bias and bad thinking, and improve individuals and society.

Lasota began blogging using the alias "Ziz", but soon fell out with mainstream rationalists as her writings spun off in bizarre directions.

The blog included posts of thousands of words, blending Lasota's personal experiences, theories about technology and philosophy, and esoteric comments about pop culture, computer coding and dozens of other subjects.

At one point, during a long diatribe about the TV series The Office, artificial intelligence and other subjects, she wrote: "I realized that I was no longer able to stand people. Not even rationalists anymore. And I would live the rest of my life completely alone, hiding my reaction to anyone it was useful to interact with. I had given up my ability to see beauty so I could see evil."

Other themes included veganism – total avoidance of any animal food or products – and anarchism.

In 2019 Lasota and three others were arrested while holding a protest outside an event held by a rationalist organisation. The last posts on her blog date from around this time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy83958r2d0o

[Psy-Fi]

being vegan makes you go insane and people shouldn't do that silly diet.

Hitler was a Vegetarian

[Psy-Fi]

'Zizian' suspect in attempted murder case claims officers are trying to kill her

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (CN) — Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, a 29-year-old transgender woman charged with the 2022 attempted murder of her Vallejo landlord, had to be forcibly restrained and removed after she disrupted courtroom proceedings on Tuesday, shouting what seemed to be a prepared statement claiming she fears for her life in police custody.

"I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal. If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!" Leatham shouted.

Leatham — a reported member of the "Zizians," a loose, cult-like organization of radical vegans and computer savants who claim artificial intelligence is a danger to humanity and are linked to six murders across the country — was led onto the courtroom floor in chains by multiple armed officers from the Solano County Sheriff's Department.