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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: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday December 06 2016, @07:24PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @07:24PM (#437958) Journal

    I think so.

    This “gay [man] lifestyle” (interesting how the man bit there is completely implied in right-wing fears of the “gay lifestyle”) seems to revolve around the idea that developing GRID/AIDS is a totally normal part of the lifecycle of a gay man to the point we're being asked to accept promiscuous sexual activity leading to disease as a package deal with male homosexuality. If we don't accept the disease, we must be rejecting the idea of homosexuality. Accepting the disease as an inevitability of being born a homosexual man also means accepting that the disease is beyond the realm of personal responsibility.

    So if one is a libertarian who prefers to keep disease-free by not being promiscuous (along with safety precautions) despite being homosexual, then what I think The Advocate was saying is that right there is fundamentally incompatible with “gay.”

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 06 2016, @07:34PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @07:34PM (#437969) Journal

    Gods, that's a scary thought. I'm too young to remember (and halfway across the country from...) the Castro district, but I know the history. Including, incidentally, all the lesbians who helped the men and never get much credit for it but that's a side story.

    So it sounds like the problem here is promiscuity. And, let's be real here, it's two men deciding when to fuck, the answer's gonna be "pretty much whenever we're not sleeping" given how horny men are. Odd thing, though, is this doesn't match the way my gay guy friends act. The one I'm closest to actually has had fewer partners and longer relationships than a few straight men I know.

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    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:48PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:48PM (#438021) Journal

      You're missing a lot of factors. In some countries AIDs was spread more my sharing needles among addicts. In much of Africa it was spread more by widespread prostitution. I AIDs spreads is a social factor, and wealth seems to act as a reasonable prophylactic, though it's certainly not perfect. There *are* documented cases of men getting AIDs and intentionally spreading it as widely as they could, but they weren't all gay. I can't remember whether they did or didn't decide that that counted as assault with a deadly weapon, but the question came up in court.

      So quite possibly the cause of the "acceptance of AIDs" by gay men is due to a sense of despair at social rejection, and the resultant feeling that doom is inevitable. But I also doubt that it's really as universal as you're portraying, at least now that AIDs doesn't seem to be an immediate sentence of (delayed) death preceded by months or years of suffering.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:53PM (#438066)

        Consider that the AIDS infection rate among adults in South Africa in 2007 was 18.5%.
        That's way, way beyond the scope of just gay people.