Robert tells David Gborie about the early life of Ziz LaSota, a bright young girl from Alaska who came to the Bay Area with dreams of saving the cosmos or destroying it, all based on her obsession with Rationalist blogs and fanfic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers. (4 Part series) Sources:  https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509 https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazard https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/ Wayback Machine The Zizians Spectral Sight True Hero Contract Schelling Orders – Sinceriously Glossary – Sinceriously  https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidon https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/ https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg https://zizians.info/ according to The Boston Globe Inside the Zizians: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The Independent Silicon Valley Rationalists Linked to 6 Deaths The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIRED Good Group and Paseks Doom – Sinceriously Glossary – Sinceriously Mana – Sinceriously Effective Altruisms Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg The Zizian Facts - Google Docs Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewer This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | Vox Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer                                                                                                    Effective Altruisms Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg SquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a Chore PLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not... Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – Sinceriously Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously Infohazardous Glossary – Sinceriously SquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google Drive The Matrix is a System – Sinceriously A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and | by SefaShapiro | Medium Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and | by SefaShapiro | Medium PLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse) Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shooting See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  The Future of Peacekeeping In Africa The Last Trial of the Fight Against Mountain Valley Pipeline The USA's Impending Telemedicine Cliff King Trump Yells at Congress Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for Cooler Zone Media and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone  Sources/Links: King Trump Yells at Congress https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318104/trump-joint-address-congress-takeawayshttps://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5318102/trump-joint-session-al-green-protesthttps://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/05/january-littlejohn-donald-trump/https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-social-security-fraud-claims/81508815007/ Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6 https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4086787/pentagon-deploys-stryker-brigade-aviation-battalion-to-southern-border/ https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4086539/dod-statement-on-deployment-of-stryker-brigade-combat-team-to-help-secure-our-s/ https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4086531/additional-troops-to-enhance-border-security-operations/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-trump-zelenskyy/ https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-643086a6dc7ff716d876b3c83e3255b0 https://apnews.com/article/trudeau-trump-canada-tariffs-us-5d5ef8bd41c4567926d543a9526b2e84 https://www.mining.com/web/copper-prices-surge-as-trump-signals-25-tariff-on-imports/ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-says-its-ready-to-fight-any-type-of-war-us-wants-till-the-end.html https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-lutnick-2b269614084027a4894aa14f3dc16227 https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/wipp-in-carlsbad-under-doge-cuts/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon that broke the brains of every subsequent generation of French nobles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for Cooler Zone Media and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone  Sources/Links: The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/ https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Dana Goldstein, Two States.  Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories, New York Times, January 12, 2020. Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.) James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.) Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.)  Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011  (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.) Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/  https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/  https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/  https://mutualaidsudan.org/ https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/ https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886  https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bruno Bettelheim has now made it to the United States, where he executes his elaborate plan to fix "emotionally disturbed" children by making a nice concentration camp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert tells Allison Raskin about Bruno Bettelheim, a concentration camp survivor who revolutionized child mental health care by trying to create a GOOD concentration camp for small children.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew Mutuality feat. Andrew Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for Cooler Zone Media and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone  Sources/Links: Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's https://linktr.ee/peetslaborunion https://peetslaborunion.org @peetslaborunion https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLR6ZV4VZRBPT/checkout/2KLSQDHYHY7D3GNP7YUX62CD Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/ Mutuality feat. Andrew Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/ Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/ Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675 https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web  https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716 https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5 https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059 https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798 https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agenciesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert explains how Tony Alamo became a jacket maker to the stars, providing Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and others with fashion via child labor. Also, lots of sex crimes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Samantha McVey to talk about Tony Alamo, the evangelical cult leader who enslaved children to make denim vests for the stars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada How the Federal Government Fell Constitutional Law Professor Reacts What's Happening To Gaza Under Trump: An Update with Dana El-Kurd Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for Cooler Zone Media and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone  Sources/Links: Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-direct-action https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/politics/trump-expansion-ideas-what-matters/index.html https://www.businesstoday.in/world/canada/story/make-them-pay-canada-puts-trumps-first-friend-elon-musks-tesla-in-the-crosshairs-of-tariff-war-463097-2025-02-01 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.9669319 https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/product/motor-cars-and-other-vehicles-principally-designed-cars-for-transport-of-persons?redirect=true https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/product/oils-of-petroleum-or-bituminous-minerals?redirect=true https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/mex/partner/usa https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/01/michigan-poised-to-take-a-big-hit-under-trump-tariffs/78099053007/ https://www.ilscompany.com/products-imported-from-mexico/ https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/mexico-automotive-industry https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/31/trumps-25percent-tariffs-this-is-whats-at-stake-for-us-auto-industry.html https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/mexico https://www.businesstoday.in/world/canada/story/make-them-pay-canada-puts-trumps-first-friend-elon-musks-tesla-in-the-crosshairs-of-tariff-war-463097-2025-02-01 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/why-buy-greenland-trump-annex-ronald-lauder-manifest-destiny/ How the Federal Government Fell https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/how-the-federal-government-fell Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p19l24g2o https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-11-vought-restores-cfpb-procedure-that-sustains-mortgage-markets/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/bond-traders-waver-trump-questions-us-government-debt-figures-2025-02-10/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-says-us-might-have-less-debt-than-thought-2025-02-09/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.