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This is going to sound hard to believe, but... ...based on zero evidence, a bunch of alt-right types decided that a pizza shop in Washington was somehow the ce

by Lazare 10y ago

This is going to sound hard to believe, but... ...based on zero evidence, a bunch of alt-right types decided that a pizza shop in Washington was somehow the center of some sort of bizarre satanic pedophilia cult/ring/thing, and that further that Clinton was somehow involved. It evolved into some sort of weird meme/circlejerk/echo chamber/witchhunt/circus, centered around /r/pizzagate, complete with doxxing, stalking, physical protesters outside the shop, trending twitter hashtags, all sorts of madness Unsurprisingly, the sub was banned. And if you choose to ban a sub focused around uncovering (I can't believe I'm writing this) Clinton's pedophile sex ring, then obviously this is because you yourself are a pedophile (and probably a Clinton supporter, which is probably worse). Why else would you help coverup Clinton's satanic pedophile sex cult? (If you're curious, the original spark behind all this is Wikileak's release of John Podesta's emails. In them he mentioned eating pizza there. Which is clearly code for child abuse, and Podesta is sort of close to Clinton, so Podesta eating pizza is literally Clinton abusing children. No, I'm not making this up, and yes, that's the sum total of the evidence behind this. Literally, the whole thing is based on the supposition that it's so unlikely that Podesta likes pizza that it must be a codeword for child abuse, because obviously child abuse is much more understandable than liking pizza, or something.)

thinline 10y ago
Like I said in the other comment, nothing to see.
CmdrSprinkles 10y ago
... ... ... Jesus Hubert Christ I think Reddit managed to out-detective the folk who accused a victim of being a terrorist. Thanks, I guess. That, in a way that horrifies me due to what it means about my brain, makes sense now.
- OberstKrueger 10y ago
  If you're referring to the missing guy who they thought was part of the Boston Marathon bombing, that was also reddit.
  - CmdrSprinkles 10y ago
    And it used to be the gold standard of the idiocy that are Reddit Detectives. There is now a new one.
duncan_bayne 10y ago
Pizza shop? I thought it was an airliner. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/13/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known.html http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/13/flight-logs-show-bill-c...
- BickNowstrom 10y ago
  This used to be tied in, but then it was found that Trump also had connections to Epstein, and so this was promptly dropped. > “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine for a 2002 profile of Epstein. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/09/the-friendship-between-trump-and-a-billionaire-pedophile-that-nobody-wants-to-talk-about/ http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/09/the-friendship-between-tru... Going meta-conspiracy. Perhaps the pizzagate stuff was a psyops pushed to detract from other, more relevant, stories.
shawabawa3 10y ago
I think it's sort of based on the fact that "cheese pizza" is 4chan slang for child porn, and there was a picture sent by podesta of an immigrant child (and her family) eating pizza with a title like "feels good" (that they helped this family, interpreted by conspiracy theorists as they molested this girl)
- ss248 10y ago
  >"cheese pizza" is 4chan slang This is not true actually. FBI and some forensic science experts used it internally way back before 4chan was even created.
  - tptacek 10y ago
    I think I speak for a great many of us when I say that I'd like a citation for the idea that even 4chan considered "cheese pizza" a code for child pornography. Intellectually, it appears we're cruising along at approximately the "asphinctersayswhat" level of complexity.
    - pavel_lishin 10y ago
      > I think I speak for a great many of us when I say that I'd like a citation for the idea that even 4chan considered "cheese pizza" a code for child pornography. I've seen it referred to, jokingly, o 4chan and other forums. For people who are baffled and/or puzzled, it's based on the acronym - child pornography - cp - cheese pizza.
      - napoleond 10y ago
        Yep, here's an Urban Dictionary entry from 2010: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese%20pizza http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese%20pizz...
    - BickNowstrom 10y ago
      http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/post-cp http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/post-cp > Post CP is an acronym in which CP can have a variety of meanings. Initially used as an acronym for 4chan posters to indirectly mention or request a child pornography thread, in later years the acronym became commonly associated with the posting of other subjects with the same first letters (C & P, most notably “Cheese Pizza”) to parody prohibited request threads or to troll those who hope to find child pornography. We Are Anonymous - Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency (2013) Parmy Olson > There was also "u jelly?," a way of asking if someone was jealous, and "cheese pizza," or "CP", slang for child porn. More shrewd 4chan users would start discussion threads about literal cheese pizza, including photos of pizzas, and add hidden links to a child porn archive within the image code -- accessed by opening the pizza images in a text program instead of an image viewer.
XJOKOLAT 10y ago
When you think you've heard it all ...
Raphmedia 10y ago
The thing is, that's not surprising at all. 4chan and Reddit does this kind of things ALL THE TIME. The Reddit's CEO should have been made aware of such troll'ish behavior. He responded in the worst way possible.
IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Reminds me of this. Slightly nsfw. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THEv9kSVJw0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THEv9kSVJw0
cryoshon 10y ago
though I think that the pizzagate group are largely crazy, you did forget the cornerstone of their theory: the podestas as well as the pizza shop in question have multitudes of disturbing art featuring children in sexual and vulnerable situations. that, and also the instagram of the owner has many pictures of children in compromising positions.... as "jokes".
- golergka 10y ago
  Can you please provide some links?
  - Lazare 10y ago
    I believe he's referring to some fake, poorly photoshopped screencaps of what was claimed to be the restaurant's instagram feed. No But of course, the fact that nobody can find the actual alleged instagram photos is just proof of the coverup!

by Lazare 10y ago

thinline 10y ago

Like I said in the other comment, nothing to see.

CmdrSprinkles 10y ago

... ... ... Jesus Hubert Christ I think Reddit managed to out-detective the folk who accused a victim of being a terrorist. Thanks, I guess. That, in a way that horrifies me due to what it means about my brain, makes sense now.

OberstKrueger 10y ago
If you're referring to the missing guy who they thought was part of the Boston Marathon bombing, that was also reddit.
- CmdrSprinkles 10y ago
  And it used to be the gold standard of the idiocy that are Reddit Detectives. There is now a new one.

duncan_bayne 10y ago

Pizza shop? I thought it was an airliner. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/13/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known.html http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/13/flight-logs-show-bill-c...

BickNowstrom 10y ago
This used to be tied in, but then it was found that Trump also had connections to Epstein, and so this was promptly dropped. > “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine for a 2002 profile of Epstein. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/09/the-friendship-between-trump-and-a-billionaire-pedophile-that-nobody-wants-to-talk-about/ http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/09/the-friendship-between-tru... Going meta-conspiracy. Perhaps the pizzagate stuff was a psyops pushed to detract from other, more relevant, stories.

shawabawa3 10y ago

I think it's sort of based on the fact that "cheese pizza" is 4chan slang for child porn, and there was a picture sent by podesta of an immigrant child (and her family) eating pizza with a title like "feels good" (that they helped this family, interpreted by conspiracy theorists as they molested this girl)

ss248 10y ago
>"cheese pizza" is 4chan slang This is not true actually. FBI and some forensic science experts used it internally way back before 4chan was even created.
- tptacek 10y ago
  I think I speak for a great many of us when I say that I'd like a citation for the idea that even 4chan considered "cheese pizza" a code for child pornography. Intellectually, it appears we're cruising along at approximately the "asphinctersayswhat" level of complexity.
  - pavel_lishin 10y ago
    > I think I speak for a great many of us when I say that I'd like a citation for the idea that even 4chan considered "cheese pizza" a code for child pornography. I've seen it referred to, jokingly, o 4chan and other forums. For people who are baffled and/or puzzled, it's based on the acronym - child pornography - cp - cheese pizza.
    - napoleond 10y ago
      Yep, here's an Urban Dictionary entry from 2010: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese%20pizza http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese%20pizz...
  - BickNowstrom 10y ago
    http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/post-cp http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/post-cp > Post CP is an acronym in which CP can have a variety of meanings. Initially used as an acronym for 4chan posters to indirectly mention or request a child pornography thread, in later years the acronym became commonly associated with the posting of other subjects with the same first letters (C & P, most notably “Cheese Pizza”) to parody prohibited request threads or to troll those who hope to find child pornography. We Are Anonymous - Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency (2013) Parmy Olson > There was also "u jelly?," a way of asking if someone was jealous, and "cheese pizza," or "CP", slang for child porn. More shrewd 4chan users would start discussion threads about literal cheese pizza, including photos of pizzas, and add hidden links to a child porn archive within the image code -- accessed by opening the pizza images in a text program instead of an image viewer.

XJOKOLAT 10y ago

When you think you've heard it all ...

Raphmedia 10y ago

The thing is, that's not surprising at all. 4chan and Reddit does this kind of things ALL THE TIME. The Reddit's CEO should have been made aware of such troll'ish behavior. He responded in the worst way possible.

IndianAstronaut 10y ago

Reminds me of this. Slightly nsfw. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THEv9kSVJw0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THEv9kSVJw0

cryoshon 10y ago

though I think that the pizzagate group are largely crazy, you did forget the cornerstone of their theory: the podestas as well as the pizza shop in question have multitudes of disturbing art featuring children in sexual and vulnerable situations. that, and also the instagram of the owner has many pictures of children in compromising positions.... as "jokes".

golergka 10y ago
Can you please provide some links?
- Lazare 10y ago
  I believe he's referring to some fake, poorly photoshopped screencaps of what was claimed to be the restaurant's instagram feed. No But of course, the fact that nobody can find the actual alleged instagram photos is just proof of the coverup!