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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 LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:49PM
Some mentally unstable bozo takes a gun there, nobody is injured, and as the Joker noted, everybody loses their minds!
Yea, I don't know what all the hype is about either. So what a deranged lunatic discharges a gun in a pizzeria because he believed Hillary was raping kids there. Liberal pussies these days, I swear...
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:01PM
Deranged lunatics do all kinds of things.
I'm sure it was a terrible situation for the people who were there, and it's probably been hard on the workers.
The part where everybody loses their minds is this scare about “fake news” and online radicalization. The level of bullshit and hysteria is straight out of a Chick Tract [chick.com]. If you play AD&D, Satan will take over your mind! If you read Fake News, the alt-right will take over your mind!
The MSM is writing in the style of Jack Chick with the same level of hysteria lately. It works for similar reasons people believe Dark Dungeons is an accurate depiction of an AD&D session. I'm sure there's some truth to AD&D being a tool of the devil in that there's a correlation between being a young person, being introduced to AD&D, questioning your parents' values, and drugs, sex, rock and roll, etc. I'm not got at classifying fallacies, but in both cases there is a severe confusion about causes and effects. [nizkor.org]
It's just… the whole thing is massive fail.
If “fake news” is such of a huge problem, I feel that the institutional failures that have lead to a populace with so many easily misled people are the real problem to be concerned about.
I mean, what is this? Dueling propaganda machines? Who can crank out the best sounding bullshit on the left and send it into the squared circle against the best sounding bullshit on the right?
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:27PM
This is a human condition. People are lazy. This has nothing to do with failure of anything, people just want the fuckin news. And whatever they are fed, they eat so long as it appeals to their palate. Doesn't matter if you took a sample of people from today, 30 or even 100 years ago. They're all lazy. They want to live in an ideal world where they can trust the news and that's that. Besides, they have enough to worry about besides playing Jr detective and Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter.
Yes. That's exactly what this is.