Pizzagate, explained: Everything you want to know about the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria conspiracy theory but are too afraid to search for on Reddit
How this incredibly stupid and dangerous piece of fiction captured the lurid imaginations of many gullible people
ANDREW BREINER
“Pizzagate” seems like too cute of a name for a conspiracy theory that’s escalated to the point that an armed man actually drove up the East Coast to “self-investigate” whether a D.C. pizza restaurant had a secret pedophilia dungeon in its basement, ending with him shooting his assault rifle inside the restaurant and being arrested.Read the rest of the full article here: http://www.salon.com/2016/12/10/pizzagate-explained-everything-you-want-to-know-about-the-comet-ping-pong-pizzeria-conspiracy-theory-but-are-too-afraid-to-search-for-on-reddit/But the name stuck. The story seemed like a hilarious curiosity in the weeks before the presidential election. Taking the so-called Pizzagaters seriously seemed about as sensible as taking the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency seriously, and both seemed like relatively safe targets for poking fun.
But just as many expected a return to the rational world after Trump’s defeat, only to wake up on November 9 living in Trump’s world, this bizarre pizza-pedophilia piece of make-believe seems to have struck the right kind of nerve in this simultaneously gullible and paranoid time to become a lasting, serious concern.
Sometimes a slice is just a slice
Pizzagate started, as so many things have in the last few months, with Wikileaks. When Wikileaks released emails from former Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s account, most commentators honed in on the ones showing Clinton allies speaking candidly and sometimes disparagingly about the candidate and her associates, as well as about policies like a federal $15 minimum wage.
But a small number of people on message boards like 4chan and Reddit were more interested in seemingly mundane emails about small social gatherings and parties hosted by Podesta and his friends. Specifically, they noticed that these emails mentioned pizza a few times.
Boldly disregarding the simple explanation that the emailers, like most Americans, eat pizza regularly and find it to be an easy food to serve and eat while socializing, self-appointed Internet detectives decided that “pizza” was a complex code for pedophilia. Using this code, Pizzagaters claim, Podesta and his well-heeled pals could brazenly discuss their plans for throwing disgusting sex parties exploiting enslaved children, in between exchanges about Clinton’s campaign strategy and setting up conference calls.
It’s important to note that since the theories that would become Pizzagate began on 4chan and Reddit, sites known for trolling people with cruel, complicated pranks, it’s likely that many of the conspiracy theory’s originators were joking — coming up with absurdities to entertain themselves.
But it took a very short time for /r/Pizzagate, the now-closed Pizzagate-focused Reddit subforum, or subreddit, to fill with people who appeared to be true believers. The theory also became popular on Reddit’s “The Donald,” a hub for Trump supporters. From there, Pizzagate caught the attention of conservative fake news sites, minor white supremacist celebrities, and supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It’s been amplified for unknown reasons by Twitter bots traced to the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam.
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God this article is pathetic!
This is just as bad as some of the erroneous pizza gate stuff. Just another distraction for America to fight each other over while the criminals rob the bank.
To start with, the Podesta emails revealed much more than campaign officials making 'candidly'and 'disparaging' comments about the $15 dollar minimum wage issue.
It showed that the Clinton Foundation was reciveing millions in donations from foreign donors such as Qatar, KSA, UAE, Morocco in pay-pay-to-play schemes. In the case of KSA, once the Saudis had donated generously to the CF, they quickly finalized an enormous billion dollar arms deal with Hillary Clinton's State Department. Easily one of the largest arms deals in US history.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187
It also demonstrated the cooperation/collusion and synchronozation of dozens of msm reporters and the Clinton campaign.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-list-least-65-msm-reporters-meeting-andor-coordinating-offline-top-hillary-advisors/
This feeble article starts off by glossing over critical information and the rest of the article follows suit.
Don't waste your time reading this shite.
Just another attempt to sweep this under the rug without addressing the facts.
The article is about pizzagate not the KSA arms deal. Its funny that your major criticism of the article is that it didn't cover the subject you wanted. Its also funny that you originally upvoted this article, I assume from just reading the headline, because you quickly took that upvote away LOL.
If you say all those things you will come off like a crackpot.
4Chan decoder rings aren't hard evidence.
It would be good to post the disputed emails. So people can read them for themselves. Another point I would like to make is that the term cheese pizza has been listed on urban dictionary as a pedi code word long before this scandal. Comet ping pong may or may not be involved in pediphelia. Andrew brietbart sure thought they were and called out the podestas before he died. Also another pertinent fact is that anthony wiener was caught red handed and his close ties can't be ignored or can they?
"It would be good to post the disputed emails."
I'm thinking of doing some posts showing how innocent they are and how those reading too much into them are probably suffering from Aspergers or similar. Until then you can read them all right here: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/
"Comet ping pong may or may not be involved in pediphelia."
There is no evidence in the public domain to suggest they are.
" another pertinent fact is that anthony wiener was caught red handed"
That isn't really pertinent though. Anothony Weiner was sexting girls on Twitter not buying and selling them in a dungeon. From what I understand he never even met those girls in real life. Beyond that, he is now an outcast. If anything Anothony Weiner's saga goes to show that if there truly is indeed real evidence of a crime the main stream media would be on it like a dog on a bone.
your funny LOL
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flagged and muted for bad journalism.
bad journalism? does this look like the NY Times? He cited the source - piss off.
Wow, trying to censor. I don't like to flag but you started it.
do not forget the plagiarism of salon a popular fake news site
Its not plagiarism if he doesn't claim he wrote it - he cited it in the bottom..
You guys are a bunch of morons..
Wow, you just can't let ideas stand on their own. Okay well I'll flag you back then.
Very good post and refreshing to read amongst all thi "pizzagate" dross. Newbie now following. Thanks