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Pizzagate was so dumb. Just imagine, the possibility that lots of powerful elite dudes would be implicated in a carefully organized long-running practice of ped

Pizzagate was so dumb. Just imagine, the possibility that lots of powerful elite dudes would be implicated in a carefully organized long-running practice of pedophilia. So conspiratorial! Definitely not realistic...

raxxorrax 7y ago
It is incredible that Alex Jones was correct in the end. It just refuses to go into my head. And it was also correct about connections to the highest echelons of political power and educational facilities. We should start asking more suggestive questions about that. "Hey Apple? How many children did you get for banning Jones?" Not that I believe he is a particular sane or selfless individual or that anything else he espouses is in any way correct, far from it. But if deplatforming comes to bite them in the ass, I welcome the hit below the belt at this point. Because they deserve it for their own greed. I think we just found the popular whore house for people in high positions who don't take laws too serious. There are a lot of questions unanswered.
draw_down 7y ago
Sure, but what bothers me about it is the pizza thing; that’s actually what’s farfetched about it. Pizza is probably the most popular food in the country, references to it are everywhere. Attributing significance to that is finding patterns in the clouds.
mistermann 7y ago
The Epstein story, and more specifically the official reaction to it, seems to me to have had quite a significant widespread impact on a lot of people's ability to fathom the possibility that organized crime actually is possible, despite widespread popularity of the obviously incorrect "it is literally impossible for that many people to keep quite, lol" meme. I have a feeling though that to make any real difference, it would take several of these in fairly quick succession, but hopefully I'm wrong about that.
leetcrew 7y ago
the problem with conspiracy theories isn't that they never turn out to be true; it's that they are usually not the most plausible explanation of the available facts. "a broken clock is still right twice a day".
- jessaustin 7y ago
  It's not productive to generalize about conspiracy theories. It has been 2.5 years, and RussiaRussiaRussia ain't been right yet. Meanwhile the Orange Menace's poll numbers are as high as they've been since this theory was popularized.

raxxorrax 7y ago

It is incredible that Alex Jones was correct in the end. It just refuses to go into my head. And it was also correct about connections to the highest echelons of political power and educational facilities. We should start asking more suggestive questions about that. "Hey Apple? How many children did you get for banning Jones?" Not that I believe he is a particular sane or selfless individual or that anything else he espouses is in any way correct, far from it. But if deplatforming comes to bite them in the ass, I welcome the hit below the belt at this point. Because they deserve it for their own greed. I think we just found the popular whore house for people in high positions who don't take laws too serious. There are a lot of questions unanswered.

draw_down 7y ago

Sure, but what bothers me about it is the pizza thing; that’s actually what’s farfetched about it. Pizza is probably the most popular food in the country, references to it are everywhere. Attributing significance to that is finding patterns in the clouds.

mistermann 7y ago

The Epstein story, and more specifically the official reaction to it, seems to me to have had quite a significant widespread impact on a lot of people's ability to fathom the possibility that organized crime actually is possible, despite widespread popularity of the obviously incorrect "it is literally impossible for that many people to keep quite, lol" meme. I have a feeling though that to make any real difference, it would take several of these in fairly quick succession, but hopefully I'm wrong about that.

leetcrew 7y ago

the problem with conspiracy theories isn't that they never turn out to be true; it's that they are usually not the most plausible explanation of the available facts. "a broken clock is still right twice a day".

jessaustin 7y ago
It's not productive to generalize about conspiracy theories. It has been 2.5 years, and RussiaRussiaRussia ain't been right yet. Meanwhile the Orange Menace's poll numbers are as high as they've been since this theory was popularized.