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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:12PM
Just for fun, soak in the ambiance and look at the anecdotes while totally ignoring the narrative. That alone is kinda interesting and entertaining.
Wait, WTF, look at that weird "art" and who owns it, holy crap. Don't pay attention to the narrative that its a trophy or re-enactment of what so and so did to some kid, or some kind of self help therapy to work thru what someone did to them in their own childhood, just look at the facts or pix. There's some interesting, crazy stuff going on even if the narrative is completely wrong.
Its like reading some of the Greek classics from 2500 years ago with a very secular or at least non-pagan eye. Yeah yeah I'm not very interested in the God Apollo willed it or WTF narrative, you can kinda skim past that stuff, but its an enjoyable pile of anecdotes and events anyway. I wouldn't rely on Herodotus as a primary text for veterinary school, for example, but he tells a hell of an interesting story anyway.
Now after enjoying the facts and anecdotes and "the scene" in general think up your own narrative and see if it matches anything you heard recently.
Or another analogy, think of it like a travelogue book about an interesting, weird, foreign land. I'm not asking you to move there permanently or asking you to convert to pre-islamic egyptian religion, but just look at those pyramids and WTF about them for a bit. Impressive, aren't they? No need to convert to "UFOs made them conspiracy theory" to be impressed. You don't have to worship Ankenaton or Ma'at or egyptian cats or whatever to look at the pyramids and WTF about them a bit. I suppose if you do convert, then looking at the pyramids is even cooler, but whatever.
Its really a no lose situation. The anecdotes and events are entertaining enough in themselves that even if you don't convert religions and become a priest of the God Apollo, or a true believer in pizzagate, its still fun to look at.