One of the things I've noticed is that the grand conspiracies often get the "shape" of things right, just the particulars are wrong. "Pizzagate"/QAnon are, at l

One of the things I've noticed is that the grand conspiracies often get the "shape" of things right, just the particulars are wrong. "Pizzagate"/QAnon are, at least as of right now, somewhat distantly correct in the sense that, holy cats there maybe really is a bunch of rich and famous people who are connected to a child sex ring. Of course QAnon et al turn it into some crazy nonsense involving a relatively meaningless hormone and a reality TV star as conquering hero. Or Bohemian Grove. They're doing Satanic rituals! All those rich and famous people are doing horribly corrupt and satanic! They're conspiring to control our lives with evil magic! Well, _no_, they're actually just engaging in some _very tacky_ theatre followed by the usual rich-person networking, and they'd rather not have you know that a bunch of important events in government and business maybe started there. I mean, heck, that's _the Masons_ too. It was facebook/linkedin of the analog era. join up, "culture of secrecy", but mostly you meet people for business contacts and whatnot.