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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:34PM
Many of the other comments are difficult to understand for me.
Like I'm missing some kind of common background knowledge.
There is a mindset that conflates mistakes and editorial perspective with deliberate lies.
I think it might be a defense mechanism to avoid an honest examination of how and why they've been suckered, a sort of "the liars I trust are no worse than the liars you trust" deflection. Its corrosive because it puts facts in the backseat to partisanship. I think it is psychologically more comfortable to tear down others than to do a honest self-examination of one's own failings, especially ideas that you have made significant personal investment in. Its almost like a defense of their personal identity.