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Leftists be like, "The Maoist uprising against the landlords," but then when a trans nonbinary vegan stabs their landlord with a katana suddenly they're all like "it's a death cult" (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by Carl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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this is not an endorsement of the zyzzians, this is a shitpost.

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[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 5 months ago

That's why I unironically stopped following Rebecca Watson. Her recent video was just too much of a libout for me

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

I'm lost, what happened?

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Long story short: an offshoot of the rationalists (the ones who are scared of a hypothetical future AI god torturing their metaverse avatar) got really extreme, insular, and cultlike. This has resulted in numerous deaths, including multiple of their own members, an ICE officer, and the landlord who owned the RV lot that they lived on. A few of the members are in jail, but I think the leader tried to fake their own death and is still on the lam. The story has Manson Family vibes, with a charismatic leader gathering a group of troubled people to their side and pushing them to do violent shit, and in this case that leader is a trans nonbinary vegan.