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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, @02:59PM
they got the crazies riled up
Speaking of riled up crazies, a week or two ago the memes of "open borders are the best" and "religion of peace" got nine people in Ohio run over by car and slashed up by knife and the dude doing it gunned down.
This week we got a riled up crazy with the memes of "pizzagate" shot a hole in the floor, probably ruining one expensive floor tile and scaring the hell out of a bunch of people, but nobody got hurt not even the shooter.
Now we can observe what the left wing media is freaked out about compared to observed actual societal harm.
This nation has lost its fucking mind.
I would agree with you, although apparently the "meme-itic" danger of pizzagate is pretty minimal compared to other toxic memes in the meme-o-sphere given that its right up there with, like, homeless guy pees in alley, or getting a parking ticket for illegal parking.
There are dangerous memes that hurt and kill people; not pizzagate, so far.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:19PM
Speaking of riled up crazies, a week or two ago the memes of "open borders are the best" and "religion of peace" got nine people in Ohio run over by car and slashed up by knife and the dude doing it gunned down.
It is amazing that you see how your own believed-in propaganda is exactly the same as ISIS propaganda. Both of them animate people who suffer from poor self-esteem and are poorly moored to reality and eventually the most susceptible of them take action in the physical world. That's exactly the point I've made on numerous occasions. Its the net of a thousand lies chewing up and spitting out the most gullible among us. It doesn't really matter what the specific conspiracy is, its like there is a personality type that is much more susceptible to propaganda.
Except somehow you see that identical phenomenon as an exoneration of the lies you believe in. It so damn weird how you practically rub your own nose in the falsehood of your conspiracy theory and yet come away believing in that conspiracy even stronger.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:06PM
This whole site is full of people with mental issues and poor self esteem. This is what and who trolls are. And I should know, I am the same person. I used to be angry, very angry. But I woke the fuck up after taking a good hard look at myself in the mirror. Why did I hate minorities? Why did I spread lies? Why did I troll? I hated myself. That's why. Sure I was robbed by blacks, it was just three of them. Three different people who all share the same thing: they're angry. I'm still angry but mostly angry at myself for allowing myself to simmer in hate for the better part of a decade and blame everyone else but myself.
The big mouthed ass holes on this site are still angry. And there are a hell of a lot of other people all over who are angry. I get it. I really do. But the anger has blinded many, including myself, into focusing it on the wrong subjects so as to distract us from the real issues. Wake up people. Wake the fuck up!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @07:27PM
Use the machine to spread the message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wauzrPn0cfg [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:01AM
The worst type of zealot is the reformed.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday December 07 2016, @06:48PM
Eh, not a zealot. Just calling out bullshit for what it is.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @09:39PM
> The worst type of zealot is the reformed.
Er, no. That's literally the opposite of a zealot.
The actual saying is, "There's no zealot like a convert. [google.com]"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:24PM
"This week we got a riled up crazy with the memes of "pizzagate" shot a hole in the floor, probably ruining one expensive floor tile and scaring the hell out of a bunch of people, but nobody got hurt not even the shooter."
The only thing I can conclude from that fact, is that the shooter was white.
Now imagine the crazy shooter was not white. How many bullet holes do you think he would get?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:15PM
Full fucking stop. That kid didn't go nuts because people defended a majority of Muslims who aren't violent or immigrants. That kid was incited by the same kind of propaganda as pizzagate. He was convinced that people were out to get him because of his religion. This kid is not much different than the pizza shooter. He read into a false narrative, believed it, and acted on it.
You know its getting bad when you go out of your way to downplay a shooting in a restaurant because no one was hurt. You live in a really fucked up reality bubble, don't you? Hello! McFly! These are the same kinds of incidents incited by the same kind of propaganda.