Pizzagate is actually a thing

[sexualbanana]

CNN Money

BBC

The New Yorker

The Guardian

Coles Notes:
- WikiLeaks publishes the hacked DNC emails. Some emails mentioned a Democrat supporter named James Alephantis, the owner of Pizza Ping Pong - a family-friendly pizza restaurant.

- 4Chan users somehow put together a story that Hillary Clinton and Alefantis are running a child abuse ring out of the Pizza Ping Pong location.

- Despite Alefantis' objections (which apparently only strengthened everyone's resolve), people dedicate themselves to getting to the bottom of this.

- Pizza Ping Pong employees start getting harrassing and threatening messages online.

- For whatever reason, the Turkish government picks up on this story.

- On Sunday afternoon, an armed civilian enters Pizza Ping Pong to investigate for himself. Fires a couple shots.

- Gunman gives himself up after 45 minutes after being satisfied that no children are being harmed.

- Conspiracy theorists refuse to believe it, and accuse the whole incident as being a false flag operation, and calling THAT "fake news."

Up for discussion:
How do you convince people who refuse to be convinced?

Second, if, theoretically, Pizza Ping Pong does run a child abuse ring out of their restaurant, how genius is it to make it so outlandish that it's impossible to believe?

[ZenOps]

It still seems awfully contrived to me, and I'm usually on the side of conspiracies.

[HiTempguy1]

Five Nights at Freddy's much?

[J-hop]

This has already been debunked....

[sexualbanana]

Originally posted by J-hop
This has already been debunked....

Yet, that has not stopped people - most notably the Chief of Staff of Trump's National Security Advisor (let that sink in for a minute) - from refusing to believe it...

LA Times

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by J-hop
This has already been debunked....

https://youtu.be/xnhJWusyj4I

Doesn't matter, truth now has no meanings. How you feel about any subject is the truth. You are the expert and never wrong.

[msommers]

Originally posted by sexualbanana

Up for discussion:
How do you convince people who refuse to be convinced?

When you find the answer, I'd love to know!

[A790]

Originally posted by sexualbanana


Yet, that has not stopped people - most notably the Chief of Staff of Trump's National Security Advisor (let that sink in for a minute) - from refusing to believe it...

LA Times

You mean his kid, right?

[sexualbanana]

Originally posted by A790

You mean his kid, right?

I believe he's also his Chief of Staff.

[A790]

Originally posted by sexualbanana


I believe he's also his Chief of Staff.

Yes, you are correct. That little tidbit is the last paragraph in the article (as I just discovered)

[J-hop]

Originally posted by sexualbanana


Yet, that has not stopped people - most notably the Chief of Staff of Trump's National Security Advisor (let that sink in for a minute) - from refusing to believe it...

LA Times

LOL, k good for a second I thought part of your post was implying this sex ring had any ounce of truth to it.

Conspiracy theorists calling the news about the fake news fake... got it!!!

[sexualbanana]

Originally posted by A790

Yes, you are correct. That little tidbit is the last paragraph in the article (as I just discovered)

Well, it's also kind of in the air.

Other articles I've found say that he is his father's former Chief of Staff and that he has nothing to do with the transition team. But, he also has an official .gov email and no one seems to know why.

[sexualbanana]

Originally posted by msommers


When you find the answer, I'd love to know!

I guess I should rephrase:

Citizen-anything - be they reporters, crime fighters, etc - show a lack of faith in the institution. In this case, what do you think media has to do to prove/show that they can be relied upon?

[Canmorite]

Conspiracy prone gullible people will believe anything. Probably getting their 'news' from infowars.

You can't talk sense to them. They want to believe it, and will find 'facts' to fit their conspiracy. This will eventually fall by the wayside like 99% of other conspiracy theories.

[beyond_ban]

[A790]

Originally posted by sexualbanana


Well, it's also kind of in the air.

Other articles I've found say that he is his father's former Chief of Staff and that he has nothing to do with the transition team. But, he also has an official .gov email and no one seems to know why.

*Former chief of staff.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38231532

[rage2]

He had an address because he was part of the transition team in a way. He was managing his dads schedules. Suffice to say they canned him from that today.

[sexualbanana]

The Ringer wrote an article about this, and 90% of the comments are people roasting the write for not being a good writer (despite the well-written article) or stating how we're all going to look stupid when Pizzagate is proved to be true.

The Ringer

[J-hop]

Just look at how many people think Chem trails are a real thing. Or even worse the other day I searched "flat earth" on Facebook, there are two huge groups with 40k and 30k members. I thought it was a joke but apparently not.

Lack of education and/or rational thought is to blame.

[A790]

Originally posted by J-hop
Just look at how many people think Chem trails are a real thing. Or even worse the other day I searched "flat earth" on Facebook, there are two huge groups with 40k and 30k members. I thought it was a joke but apparently not.

Lack of education and/or rational thought is to blame.

You think that's bad?

Look up "Annunaki" groups on FB...