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Well, as an anecdote, I have been following this since day one and I'm absolutely not a member of the alt-right (if you do a search, you'll find that I'm the fi
by 75j 10y ago
Well, as an anecdote, I have been following this since day one and I'm absolutely not a member of the alt-right (if you do a search, you'll find that I'm the first person to ever mention "pizzagate" on HN).
Not saying that I believe any of the claims about Alefantis (I just have a fascination with conspiracy theories), but defgeneric is correct IMO to say that this is not solely a product of the alt-right.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThere's a difference between following it and committing the slander, and it's absolutely a politically-motivated faction, and not "the Internet" in a general sense, doing the latter.
- 75j 10y agoWhat I'm telling you is that I, as someone who has observed this happening from the beginning, am under the impression that the people posting this stuff don't come from a single uniform ideology. It's not totally baseless speculation -- I read through people's post histories all the time to get a sense of who they are. Where's your evidence to the contrary? EDIT: Here are the profiles of the reddit users that currently have the top 5 submissions on r/pizzagate (excluding one brand new throwaway account). I looked through them a bit, but you tell me. https://www.reddit.com/user/JackeyWhip https://www.reddit.com/user/JackeyWhip https://www.reddit.com/user/Truth_Bomb_69 https://www.reddit.com/user/Truth_Bomb_69 https://www.reddit.com/user/bloodfist45 https://www.reddit.com/user/bloodfist45 https://www.reddit.com/user/conspExec https://www.reddit.com/user/conspExec https://www.reddit.com/user/iamkats https://www.reddit.com/user/iamkats The first user just posts about Dota all the time. The second has only a few posts. As far as I can see only the last user has posts in r/The_Donald and seems to fit the bill of being alt-right.