Previous: The Zizhunt Commences
We have been watching from between our fingers as the media- rather than fight the good fight against the SOTTV*- have recognized, in Ziz, an apparent REIFICATION of the SOTTV.
*Specter of the ~traaans villain~
Their coverage of Ziz & co. has been, by & large, really just a slavering, slobbering SOTTV-fest.
We honestly don’t know how far we’ll get into this ~bonus content~. We've got a lot of news links at hand, but a limited capacity to look thru them before our tummy hurts 😢
To make the job easier, we have this handy zbingo (Ziz bingo) card:
—Containing the tropes, TRIGGERS, & tenuous claims which we least like to see in relation to this sensitive material— oh, & containing one thing which we love to see: ✨New News✨.
This card is not exhaustive, but boy did it exhaust our patience to make 😪
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Let’s start w/ an oldie but a goodie:
Fox should rlly be paying “the Zizians” royalties 🤑 goodness knows how many clicks they've clunked over claims that- at last!- they've caught footage of a live SOTTV in the wild.
Looking over Fox’s offerings, there was just so much to choose from:
…but we finally landed on what looked like an all-purpose report from Sarah Rumpf-Whitten: Zizian leader [Redacted] LaSota: Who is transgender, vegan cult head linked to border agent killing?
Fox makes a big deal abt saying Ziz is trans, but does this mean they respect her name or pronouns? Ofc not! By *not* using her name or pronouns, they can feed the SOTTV by suggesting that:
✅ Ziz is deceptive- for ex., she is deceeeiving you into thinking her name is Ziz, when it's really [Redacted] [Redacted] LaSota.*
*Poor Ophelia gets a similar treatment. Her name is given as as "[Redacted] ‘Ophelia' Bauckholt", as if Ophelia were just a silly little nickname- or even a criminal alias.
✅ Ziz is delulu- *she* may use female pronouns, but this is treated as an affectation rather than, y'know, who she is. 😤 Why should we indulge in the "affectations" of anyone, let alone a ~criminal~?
✅ Ziz is fringe, & a menace to the norm- being vegan, being an anarchist, & having unique religious beliefs ofc make this worse, & are sort of presented by Fox as bigger crimes than Ziz's actual (alleged) crimes (AAC). They are certainly presented as being precursors to Ziz's AAC!
After making mincemeat of our saga (as seen in pts. 1-43 of Strange New Vegan Death Cult Murders), Ms. Rumpf-Whitten brings out the big guns: she brings out Dar Dixon— actor, man-about-town, & host of a podcast called "The Art of Being... Dar" 🙃 Dar is har to share his "cult expertise" w/ us.
😳 Dar, cool it, yr in a workplace!
What we see thar is that Dar has made a beginners' mistake: he has conflated gender, sexuality, & sexiness.
In so doing, Dar has revealed that he thinks being *trans* is mainly abt being sexy- from one angle, this might sound flattering, but is, alas, in the end dehumanizing. No one's identity makes them inherently more or less sexy than anyone else.
The sexiness at play, in fact, is Dar's. He has just perceived trans ppl in a lascivious manner, then projected his own sexy thoughts onto the object he espies: namely, onto the poor “Zizians”.
This leads Dar to his 2nd big mistake.
After projecting sexiness onto “the Zizians”, it's easy for Dar to assume that they are a sex cult, or at any rate, a cult which controls thru sex.
Insidiously, Dar (and/or Fox) seems to be insinuating that transness itself is like a sexy cult- & that trans ppl, by virtue of their tremendous "sexiness", are easily ensnared by, say, that famous femme fatale Ziz LaSota.
This is an old, old SOTOQV* trope.
*Specter of the otherwise queer villain
In reality, queer ppl are no more "seducible" than anybody else.
Other factors might make them more *vulnerable*— but this is due to their marginalized & thus precarious positionality; not due to their sexual orientation, gender identities, or libidos.
👋 Goodbye to Dar, & goodbye to this article!
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Next we find ourself on PJ Media: a “center-right” joint. 😮💨 Goodness knows we could use some moderation in our zcoverage (Ziz coverage). Writing for PJ is young Catherine Salgado:
Recipient of the 2021 Andrew Breitbart MVP award. A quick mosey thru Miss Catherine’s bylines finds such pieces as:
and:
and:
…this last one we may have to include in our zmedia (Ziz media) stew.
Catherine is a prolific writer, w/ a fighting spirit that, frankly, we almost love to see. She comes at this article swinging: Authorities Charged 'Ziz' Trans Cult Terrorist Under False Name
…The piece, btw, opens w/ a photo illustration showing both the SOTOQV & the SOTTV* in their natural habitat:
*Specters of the otherwise queer & ~traaans villains~
😮 False name? That is sinister indeed! Op, but in her very first line, Catherine reveals that her source for this ✨New News✨ is none other than Andy Ngo: a journalist perhaps most famous for speaking in a British accent (he’s from Portland), for getting punched in the head while ~covering~ a confrontation b/w Portland’s far-right & anti-fascists, & then for getting milkshakes thrown at him.
His wiki page describes him as a “discredited provocateur” who “has been accused of sharing misleading or selective material”— namely, wrt to Muslims, Antifa, & now we fear wrt Ziz & friends.
Andy has “revealed” that “a member of a now infamous transgender terror cult”— which Catherine also calls “the violent transgender terror cult 'Zizians'”, &, for good measure, “'Ziz’ terror cult”— has been arrested under a “false name”.
He is referring to Suri Dao, of whom we, admittedly, know little. They are perhaps a recent high school graduate, perhaps a recent college graduate, perhaps (in Catherine’s words) a “former child genius”— or perhaps (also in Catherine’s words) a “bloodthirsty radical” and “attempted assassin”, who was “radicalized” by “the woke mind virus”*.
*One cause of this “mind virus” is implied to be the mothers of Suri, who are allegedly lesbians; one symptom of this virus is implied to be teen Suri’s “vocal” support for open borders.
Suri’s lawyer (SL) has disputed Andy’s charge, saying only, “I have only ever known my client to be Suri Dao. Other than that, I am sure that Suri would prefer not to be in the news at all. They are not overly involved in any of this.” This Andy interprets as SL attempting to hide Suri’s “real legal name”.
We would contend that this is Suri’s lawyer showing merciful solidarity w/ Suri by not deadnaming them. But for further proof that there is sinister work afoot, Andy points out that Suri, in the past, has gone by the “alias” “Elizah”. Catherine will concur: “all “members of the ‘Ziz’ group use multiple aliases”. Again, we think she is referring to the fact that most of Ziz’s friends are trans— or, in Suri’s case, nonbinary (as Catherine says, “[claim] to be nonbinary”)— & have therefore, at some point or another, changed their names.
This article goes on to deadname & otherwise misgender poor Emma, & to express outrage that Emma’s bereaved family was able to raise $20,000 on GoFundMe following their daughter’s death. Catherine describes Emma as “mourned by leftists as a supposedly innocent transgender victim of gun violence”.
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Now is perhaps as good a time as any to point out the “related” news story which center-right PJ Media would like us to read next:
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Emma is further described as having “Antifa ties”, & as “repeatedly [endorsing] killing 'Nazis'” (why the scare quotes?)— which, we don’t mind sharing, left us with a lump in our throats. How we wish we could have met Emma.
Catherine concludes w/ news that Andy— just like us!— has been unleashing a flood of zcontent (Ziz content) on social media. This naturally led us to…
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Andy Ngo on X!
Andy indeed is deep in the world of Ziz— tho this zlandscape (Ziz landscape), as it appears to Andy’s eyes, strikes us as quite topsy-turvy. Andy is consumed by the thought that Ziz & friends (or as Andy calls them, “the ‘antifascist’ trans terror cell”) are using “false names”: aka, that they are trans, & that they have chosen some names. He has been sharing this urgent news on YT and Instagram as well:
Andy’s X account reveals that the prosecution in Suri’s case is *also* trying to deadname them— which Suri’s lawyer (SL), correctly, has called “repeated bigotry” (RB). SL has gone further, saying that such RB could be grounds for the case’s dismissal. We are relieved that Suri seems to have acquired new representation, & that this representation appears to be actually representing them.
Andy then hits us w/ some good news: he has found Emma’s X account!
On X, we find Emma, in March of 2022, pleading w/ “members of the MIRI pedophile cult” to stop “harassing” her 😢
Via Emma, we also find the X accounts of Milo & Ophelia!
😮💨 Our post-Andy blood pressure goes back to normal as we find Ophelia deftly dispersing w/ Ray Blanchard’s disgraced autogynephilia hypothesis— y’know, that démodé rumor which Rationalist clowns so loved to hit Ziz w/:
We also find Ophelia wrangling w/ Alyssa Vance, a prominent Rationalist & member of the Vassar circle who played a major role in the 2019 pile-on against Ziz, Gwen, Somni, & Emma. Alyssa has shared a post by the dreaded Eliezer, to which Ophelia replies: “What the fuck is up with that post. What strategy do you think Eliezer is pursuing when he writes a character who delivers a reasonable message and then uses fallacious arguments to pressure people into sex???” 💀
Alyssa replies that *she* reads this post as Eliezer’s attempt to say that “to pressure people into sex was… bad (?)” We, w/ Eliezer’s alleged crimes on our mind, are not sure we agree w/ Alyssa. Neither is Ophelia, who replies, “That's a puzzling intent given that I don't see any signs of it in the text.”
In a separate wrangle w/ Anna Salamon & some other Rationalists, Ophelia muses over how one distinguishes good-faith from bad-faith arguments, saying that, for ex., “I perceive a lot of conversation about 'cults' to be in bad faith”. We 👏 love 👏 Ophelia 👏
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Finally, via Milo’s account, we find Maximilian’s account (@audereaudere)… or should we say, as we have heard whispered elsewhere, Audere’s account? 🤔 Ah fuck it: ✨New News✨ everyone: “Maximilian” is now Audere.
Audere gets off to a… rocky start: admitting to erotic role-playing with & emotionally abusing a 17-y-o when they were 21: “I thought it was wholesome BDSM and I was wrong.” They lament that, at the time, they “thought that a lot of people were really into manipulation and abuse, and that for them it was the best way to become close friends.” 😪 Their victim then replies: “My relationship with Audere was significantly harmful to me psychologically.” — Oh, & uses they/them pronouns for Audere, which we will henceforth adopt.
To their credit, Audere has chosen to “bring this to light” themselves— after apparently requesting that their victim keep it 🤫 undercover.
😑 ...Other than THAT, we kinda like Audere’s takes on things! They have cool things to say abt the ways that many parents mistake “controlling all of the information that a child has access to” w/ being a “good parent”, & cool things to say abt the way that “Plenty of normal things are utterly unacceptable”: “Whether or not an abusive behavior is normal should be irrelevant.”
As suspected, we’re starting to warm up to Audere:
😮💨 But that’s enough for now. Let’s tally up our bingo card & call it a day:
We’ve got bingo! 🎉