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The Chairman
Jun 30, 2003

But you forget, mon ami, that there is evil everywhere under the sun

dwarf74 posted:

Poe's Law is a killer when it comes to pizzagaters.

I saw a guy on a Facebook thread explaining that Alefantis's name was definitive proof he's a pedo.

I still don't know if he was sincere or trolling.

That is a 100% sincere theory, I've seen it pop up multiple times

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Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

dwarf74 posted:

Poe's Law is a killer when it comes to pizzagaters.

I saw a guy on a Facebook thread explaining that Alefantis's name was definitive proof he's a pedo.

I still don't know if he was sincere or trolling.

Everyone knows that pedophiles are like Batman villains, compelled to model every aspect of their lives around pedophilia, even their names. That also explains all the subtle hints and clues they leave plastered all over their social media profiles and the walls of their businesses and homes.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

What's hosed up is that an entire community has been built around the shakiest bullshit imaginable. It's going to be sad watching marketers really tap into that gullibility

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene

Begemot posted:

Everyone knows that pedophiles are like Batman villains, compelled to model every aspect of their lives around pedophilia, even their names. That also explains all the subtle hints and clues they leave plastered all over their social media profiles and the walls of their businesses and homes.

Sympathetic magic is real yo.

Unless you think that children are somehow innately so irresistibly attractive that the rich and famous just *have* to gently caress them.

I imagine most of them are as repulsed by it as we are. But we've all held our nose and compromised our ethics before for various reasons. That last step for ultimate wealth and control . . . well, by the time you are there you've already made a number of other compromises. So, "in for a penny, in for a pound" as they say.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

None of that post makes any sense

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
As has been pointed out, pedophilia rings are real and seem to pop up everywhere in the ultra elite world.

From this we can conclude that either 1) loving children is amazing and something everyone would want to do; however it is taboo so only the ultra rich and powerful can do it or 2) loving children is abhorrent but provides advantages distinct from the actual act of loving children.

I find option #1 abhorrent and, from my experience, also wrong. I don't know anybody that wants to gently caress kids. So #2 is more reasonable.

There is a #3, that "power corrupts" so the inherently taboo nature of loving kids makes it alluring to those jaded on all other experiences. But, again, that runs counter to my experience with the world. Thrill seekers and taboo breakers do exist but I don't see how that would become the regular ritualized sex abuse we can actually observe happening at the highest levels of society.

If you were independently wealthy and had extreme political power would you want to gently caress kids?

Me neither.

Unless they are lizard people or otherwise alien monsters, sympathetic magic seems the most parsimonious explanation.

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QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Shbobdb posted:

As has been pointed out, pedophilia rings are real and seem to pop up everywhere in the ultra elite world.

Only if you accept the flimsiest possible "a wall full of thumbtacks has to mean SOMETHING" kind of evidence; pedophilia rings exist and are terrible but "pop up everywhere in the ultra elite world" is where you firmly leave behind the land of evidence

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC
The greatest irony of Pizzagate was it spawning from the fevered minds of 4chan, 8chan and reddit.

Y'know, historicly anti-pedo websites.

*cough cough*

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

Shbobdb posted:

As has been pointed out, pedophilia rings are real and seem to pop up everywhere in the ultra elite world.

From this we can conclude that either 1) loving children is amazing and something everyone would want to do; however it is taboo so only the ultra rich and powerful can do it or 2) loving children is abhorrent but provides advantages distinct from the actual act of loving children.

I find option #1 abhorrent and, from my experience, also wrong. I don't know anybody that wants to gently caress kids. So #2 is more reasonable.

There is a #3, that "power corrupts" so the inherently taboo nature of loving kids makes it alluring to those jaded on all other experiences. But, again, that runs counter to my experience with the world. Thrill seekers and taboo breakers do exist but I don't see how that would become the regular ritualized sex abuse we can actually observe happening at the highest levels of society.

If you were independently wealthy and had extreme political power would you want to gently caress kids?

Me neither.

Unless they are lizard people or otherwise alien monsters, sympathetic magic seems the most parsimonious explanation.

#4 some people are born as ultra rich, pedophiles form rings to protect themselves, and people usually form rings in their socio-economic sphere

504
Feb 2, 2016

by R. Guyovich

Goa Tse-tung posted:

#4 some people are born as ultra rich, pedophiles form rings to protect themselves, and people usually form rings in their socio-economic sphere

Um, no. That's obvious and does not make me feel special. So no.

Lightning Lord
Feb 21, 2013

$200 a day, plus expenses

Isn't Pizzagate basically based on the incorrect premises that no one likes cheese pizza and that everyone is aware of and uses 4chan code phrases in their lives?

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

Lightning Lord posted:

Isn't Pizzagate basically based on the incorrect premises that no one likes cheese pizza and that everyone is aware of and uses 4chan code phrases in their lives?

It all relies on cherry picking out of context photos to say "doesn't this seem weird guys???" In absence of actual evidence like missing children, let alone finding any actual children tied up there. Or the place having an actual basement.

If you say that "cheese pizza" is code word for "child prostitute" without any evidence, you've labeled the premises from the start and any mundane conversation looks weird.

Lightning Lord
Feb 21, 2013

$200 a day, plus expenses

Has no Pizzagater ever been to New York?

Illuminti
Dec 3, 2005

Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

RagnarokAngel posted:

It all relies on cherry picking out of context photos to say "doesn't this seem weird guys???" In absence of actual evidence like missing children, let alone finding any actual children tied up there. Or the place having an actual basement.

If you say that "cheese pizza" is code word for "child prostitute" without any evidence, you've labeled the premises from the start and any mundane conversation looks weird.

Also the phrase "cheese pizza" never appears in the emails

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Lightning Lord posted:

Isn't Pizzagate basically based on the incorrect premises that no one likes cheese pizza and that everyone is aware of and uses 4chan code phrases in their lives?

Pizzagate is based on the premise that democrats are evil because they're not republicans therefore democrats are pedophiles. That's it. The guy who came up with pizzagate was a far-right conspiracy theorist nutjob with too much free time on his hands and a desire to find wrongdoing. This is a hallmark story of confirmation bias.

The guy who owns Comet Ping Pong started inviting protesters to come inside and look around as much as they want and maybe stick around and have a slice, you have to be completely hosed in the head to not take him up on that offer and then go "oh I guess it's just a normal pizza restaurant after all"

The worst part about all of this is that there are real, factual examples of people using their power to cover up their own child abusing tendencies. Fake stories like Pizzagate rob legitimacy from real investigations into real child abusers.

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

QuarkJets posted:

Pizzagate is based on the premise that democrats are evil because they're not republicans therefore democrats are pedophiles. That's it. The guy who came up with pizzagate was a far-right conspiracy theorist nutjob with too much free time on his hands and a desire to find wrongdoing. This is a hallmark story of confirmation bias.

The guy who owns Comet Ping Pong started inviting protesters to come inside and look around as much as they want and maybe stick around and have a slice, you have to be completely hosed in the head to not take him up on that offer and then go "oh I guess it's just a normal pizza restaurant after all"

The worst part about all of this is that there are real, factual examples of people using their power to cover up their own child abusing tendencies. Fake stories like Pizzagate rob legitimacy from real investigations into real child abusers.

Just like any good conspiracy theory, it allows real criminals to distract from their acts and demonize the opposition.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

The Chairman posted:

That is a 100% sincere theory, I've seen it pop up multiple times
I don't ... I mean, what - do they think the guy changed his name to be a subtle wink for conspiracy theorists? How can you be this disconnected from reality?

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

dwarf74 posted:

I don't ... I mean, what - do they think the guy changed his name to be a subtle wink for conspiracy theorists? How can you be this disconnected from reality?

They think he's mocking them by being so blatant.

smoke sumthin bitch
Dec 14, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
the one thing we can all agree on is that they are hiding something extremely illegal behind all the coded talk. i would say that the probabilities its some kind of child trafficking ring is about 50/50. it could also be drugs or bribes or some other poo poo.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

the one thing we can all agree on is that they are hiding something extremely illegal behind all the coded talk. i would say that the probabilities its some kind of child trafficking ring is about 50/50. it could also be drugs or bribes or some other poo poo.
Actually, we cannot agree on this at all.

Lightning Lord
Feb 21, 2013

$200 a day, plus expenses

Illuminti posted:

Also the phrase "cheese pizza" never appears in the emails

So where does the whole "CHEESE PIZZA!? No one likes that! Must be using our lingo for child porn/prostitutes!" tangent I've seen mentioned come from?

QuarkJets posted:

Pizzagate is based on the premise that democrats are evil because they're not republicans therefore democrats are pedophiles. That's it. The guy who came up with pizzagate was a far-right conspiracy theorist nutjob with too much free time on his hands and a desire to find wrongdoing. This is a hallmark story of confirmation bias.

The guy who owns Comet Ping Pong started inviting protesters to come inside and look around as much as they want and maybe stick around and have a slice, you have to be completely hosed in the head to not take him up on that offer and then go "oh I guess it's just a normal pizza restaurant after all"

The worst part about all of this is that there are real, factual examples of people using their power to cover up their own child abusing tendencies. Fake stories like Pizzagate rob legitimacy from real investigations into real child abusers.

Also I think it comes from thinking politicians are just not human at all and don't do things like swap dad jokes in email

smoke sumthin bitch
Dec 14, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

dwarf74 posted:

Actually, we cannot agree on this at all.

so you believe podesta really owns a hot dog stand in hawaii? you believe he carries handkerchiefs with pizza related maps on them just because?

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

so you believe podesta really owns a hot dog stand in hawaii? you believe he carries handkerchiefs with pizza related maps on them just because?

Cite your sources but I'd totally believe the handkerchief thing he seems like an odd dude.

Thermite
Aug 16, 2006

Huzzah!

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

so you believe podesta really owns a hot dog stand in hawaii? you believe he carries handkerchiefs with pizza related maps on them just because?

To be fair, hot dog stand ownership is a well known symptom of pedophilia. The pizza map thing is more a sign of kleptomania.

GutBomb
Jun 15, 2005

Dude?

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

so you believe podesta really owns a hot dog stand in hawaii? you believe he carries handkerchiefs with pizza related maps on them just because?

Inside jokes you don't have any context for aren't codes, dude

smoke sumthin bitch
Dec 14, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

RagnarokAngel posted:

Cite your sources but I'd totally believe the handkerchief thing he seems like an odd dude.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32795

Podesta emails posted:

Hi John,

The realtor found a handkerchief (I think it has a map that seems pizza-related. Is it yorus? They can send it if you want. I know you're busy, so feel free not to respond if it's not yours or you don't want it.

Susaner

most of you deniers havent even researched pizza gate one bit. i used to be a super rational anti conspiracist too in my younger days until i actually put some time in and found out how evil the government inherently is. im not saying there was rape inside the pizzeria, what im saying is that theres a network of very powerful individuals who are clearly talking in codes and who happen to be into vile disgusting pedo art




Washington Post posted:

"At political events, there's an inevitable awkwardness," former Clinton administration official Sally Katzen said at a Women's Campaign Fund dinner at the Podestas' home this summer. "The art is an ice-breaker. It puts people at ease."

Not always. Folks attending a house tour in the Lake Barcroft neighborhood in Falls Church earlier this year got an eyeful when they walked into a bedroom at the Podesta residence hung with multiple color pictures by Katy Grannan, a photographer known for documentary-style pictures of naked teenagers in their parents' suburban homes.

"They were horrified," Heather recalls, a grin spreading across her face.

https://archive.fo/vddrO#selection-3897.0-3913.74

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Lightning Lord posted:

So where does the whole "CHEESE PIZZA!? No one likes that! Must be using our lingo for child porn/prostitutes!" tangent I've seen mentioned come from?

I don't know about "Nobody likes cheese pizza so it must be code", but the code thing came from 4chan. CP was used as code for child porn, and some people tried to be sneaky by calling it "cheese pizza".

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

the one thing we can all agree on is that they are hiding something extremely illegal behind all the coded talk. i would say that the probabilities its some kind of child trafficking ring is about 50/50. it could also be drugs or bribes or some other poo poo.

We can all agree Russia used thousands of hackers to spread misinformation in America. Presumably things including the pizzagate stuff.

So with these things being confirmed, we can assume you are a Russian spy, a pedo, or schizophrenic. Am I doing this right?

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

so you believe podesta really owns a hot dog stand in hawaii? you believe he carries handkerchiefs with pizza related maps on them just because?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-conspiracy-theory-director/

quote:

1. Proof of the conspiracy supposedly emerges from a pattern of “connecting the dots” between events that need not be causally connected. When no evidence supports these connections except the allegation of the conspiracy or when the evidence fits equally well to other causal connections—or to randomness—the conspiracy theory is likely to be false.
2. The agents behind the pattern of the conspiracy would need nearly superhuman power to pull it off. People are usually not nearly so powerful as we think they are.
3. The conspiracy is complex, and its successful completion demands a large number of elements.
4. Similarly, the conspiracy involves large numbers of people who would all need to keep silent about their secrets. The more people involved, the less realistic it becomes.
5. The conspiracy encompasses a grand ambition for control over a nation, economy or political system. If it suggests world domination, the theory is even less likely to be true.
6. The conspiracy theory ratchets up from small events that might be true to much larger, much less probable events.
7. The conspiracy theory assigns portentous, sinister meanings to what are most likely innocuous, insignificant events.
8. The theory tends to commingle facts and speculations without distinguishing between the two and without assigning degrees of probability or of factuality.
9. The theorist is indiscriminately suspicious of all government agencies or private groups, which suggests an inability to nuance differences between true and false conspiracies.
10. The conspiracy theorist refuses to consider alternative explanations, rejecting all disconfirming evidence and blatantly seeking only confirmatory evidence to support what he or she has a priori determined to be the truth.
I see ... what, 9/10 at least?

GutBomb
Jun 15, 2005

Dude?

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32795


most of you deniers havent even researched pizza gate one bit. i used to be a super rational anti conspiracist too in my younger days until i actually put some time in and found out how evil the government inherently is. im not saying there was rape inside the pizzeria, what im saying is that theres a network of very powerful individuals who are clearly talking in codes and who happen to be into vile disgusting pedo art





https://archive.fo/vddrO#selection-3897.0-3913.74

The collage on the bottom you posted is art by Biljana Djurdjevic. That particular art is cherry-picked from her work by pizzagate idiots as "vile disgusting pedo art". But the paintings in that collage aren't necessarily the ones hung in the Podesta home and only represent a fraction of her total output in her work as a painter alone. Show me photos of these particular paintings in the podesta home and you might have something... then again you wouldn't because it's just art.

The article linked says this

quote:

Not always. Folks attending a house tour in the Lake Barcroft neighborhood in Falls Church earlier this year got an eyeful when they walked into a bedroom at the Podesta residence hung with multiple color pictures by Katy Grannan, a photographer known for documentary-style pictures of naked teenagers in their parents' suburban homes.

It does not say there are photos of naked teenagers. It says there are photos from a photographer known for photos of naked teenagers. Again, show some proof that the "vile disgusting pedo art" is actually in the podesta home.

Also you're an idiot.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

QuarkJets posted:

None of that post makes any sense

Do you think ol David Cameron hosed a dead pig's head because he found it really hot? Of course not, it's because British rich society is all hosed up and demands its member engage in weird sex things as part of hazing and things like that.

Consider also how the major British boarding schools that the scions of powerful and rich families go to have a long history of - let's just call it what it is - older boys raping and sexually assaulting the younger boys. As well as the adults sexually abusing and raping the students. I'd place a lot of money on long term traditions like that explaining the uncovered pedophile rings in the UK's media industry and politics in general quite well. Now obviously this particular setup doesn't have much to do with any American pedophile rings that may or may not exist, but it explains the major UK ones quite well.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich
pretty sure pizzagate started as a joke/parody but then a shitload of brokebrains started believing in it

shoddbd im pretty sure was/is a gimmick that got too real and smoke something bitch has been off their meds since before the election

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene

fishmech posted:

Do you think ol David Cameron hosed a dead pig's head because he found it really hot? Of course not, it's because British rich society is all hosed up and demands its member engage in weird sex things as part of hazing and things like that.

Consider also how the major British boarding schools that the scions of powerful and rich families go to have a long history of - let's just call it what it is - older boys raping and sexually assaulting the younger boys. As well as the adults sexually abusing and raping the students. I'd place a lot of money on long term traditions like that explaining the uncovered pedophile rings in the UK's media industry and politics in general quite well. Now obviously this particular setup doesn't have much to do with any American pedophile rings that may or may not exist, but it explains the major UK ones quite well.

This is basically correct, except why would you assume these institutions don't similarly exist in the US? There are fewer of them because blue blooded boarding schools play a smaller role in US culture but they still exist. Skull and Bones films initiates getting rear end hosed and peed on. Bohemian Grove is the "queerest thing" according to Nixon. It's everywhere.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Shbobdb posted:

This is basically correct, except why would you assume these institutions don't similarly exist in the US? There are fewer of them because blue blooded boarding schools play a smaller role in US culture but they still exist. Skull and Bones films initiates getting rear end hosed and peed on. Bohemian Grove is the "queerest thing" according to Nixon. It's everywhere.

This is dumb because you're a stupid unfunny gimmick, but US boarding schools have had tons of problems with teachers raping and abusing students, like dozens of faculty members at a handful of schools just in the last 40-50 years. And before that, who would know or tell? Look up St. George's School in Connecticut (?), or St. Paul's in New York. And the faculty acted like that because that's what was done to them when they were students at schools like those.

Now that there's no longer a genteel code of silence about sexual assault on children, things have changed.

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
So we agree child rape is/was real and endemic in elite institutions.

The next question should be: "why?" Do you think children are just so sexy that people can't help but rape them? Because that's pretty hosed up.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Positions of authority over children select heavily for people who seek to have power over children, especially in cultures that value appearance over reality and consider sex shameful. You're reversing cause and effect because you're a lovely unfunny gimmick.

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
If these people want child sex why wouldn't they stay in positions where they can have access to it? Why go into politics or industry when you could become a teacher or a priest. I agree that true pedophiles are drawn to certain positions because it gives them access to children. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense are all the conservative businessmen and politicians who keep loving children in satanic rituals. It seems like the kid loving isn't the goal in those scenarios.

The Skull and Bones society isn't an underground gay group.

Comrayn
Jul 22, 2008
If you aren't just scrolling past shbobdb's stupid "stir up as much poo poo as possible" gimmick posts in any thread he pops up in I assume your other hobbies include nailing your dick to two by fours and drinking cat piss.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

The other poster had a good point about boarding school breeding rapists of children.

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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


if you can't appreciate the long-running variety in shbobdb's posting gimmicks and how invariably they are taken completely seriously, i weep for you

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