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posted by on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-believe-everything-you-read dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:44PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:44PM (#437715)

    How is that a "right wing" thing when it is the same behavior in left wing areas like college campus LARPing?

    Obviously when the right was in charge you'll get more people paying attention to a right guy saying how everyone in power acts. Or when the left is in momentary charge they get the same attention and the same observation can be made about Hillary and her Benghazi adventure, for example. Or Obama's policy toward ISIS or for that matter Russia?

    Its more a design pattern of power and authoritarianism where you only researched one dude from one side but everyone does it.

    A good analogy would be the time Bush puked on the president of Japan and trying to spread a narrative that puking on people is right wing or maybe even alt-right "literally hitler". But in reality everyone pukes sooner or later even people not in positions of political power. Or think of leftie Hollywood "college movie trope" for example, so clearly it don't mean nothing. Although it is a true observation that everyone pukes or everyone holding propaganda power tends to use it.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:45PM (#437935)

    How is that a "right wing" thing when it is the same behavior in left wing areas like college campus LARPing?

    You're trying to conflate a game, where everyone involved knows its fake and not real and has no impact on reality, with people pushing fake news onto others as if its true with the intent of having everyone believe that its factually correct and describes whats occurring in reality?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:47PM (#438060)

      Its crazy, right?
      What could possibly lead someone to make that kind of equivalency?
      All I can come up with is debilitating mental illness.

  • (Score: 2) by tynin on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:29PM

    by tynin (2013) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:29PM (#438089) Journal

    VLM, buddy, their are some crazy hardcore right-wingers out LARPing as well. And by some, I mean, the divide looks a lot like how this country ends up voting.

    Then again, you are responding to an AC who's modded Troll... and the more I re-read your's, I'm getting a lot of Troll out of it too.

    Indeed, after the 3rd re-read, I'm actually enjoying and laughing at the obviousness of it. Touche!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:37PM (#438096)

      Read his other posts.
      Either he's dedicated to trolling at a near-superhuman level.
      Or he's telling you exactly what he believes.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @08:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @08:25AM (#438256)

    The difference being one side lost the election to a tv reality star (really, that's one for the record books), and the other imploded upon impact.

    At the moment, the absolute best critiques of Trump aren't coming from the left, but from old stalwart conservatives like Ben Shapiro. Let that sink in for a bit. One of the previous superstars of the "fake news" galaxy is doing some of the most incisive analysis of the problems with Trump.

    You realize then how inconsequential the left, the MSM, and most of this mewling about fake news is. This is the last gasps of a failed ideology demanding attention while the rest of the world has moved on.

    But wait, there's more-

    What's worse is the left can't even get some reflected glory because that would mean sharing the street with conservatives, independents, libertarians, and moderates; and would bring into sharp focus the lefts' absence when the complaints about Obama were taking place.

    The liberals' nightmare has finally come true- the country is right and further right. Liberalism is dead (at least in its current incarnation), and this fake news bit is nothing more than a last bid to maintain some relevance while the rest of us set the body on fire.