When you have tens of thousands of autists weaponizing that shit, you will have plenty of ones whose speculation goes awry, come to weird conclusions, and become certain of things entirely based on their hunches. That's the trouble with conspiracies, you are building narratives from fragmented, coded ideas and then welding it together as best you can. Sometimes it uncovers reality (McCarthy) or sometimes it becomes something beyond reality (later McCarthyism).
That's not even getting into the idea that the entire pizza parlor was a false flag, which even if the idea itself wasn't, the shooting almost certainly was.
They did. That's exactly what /r/pizzagate was doing.
The media was the one blasting the pizza parlor nonsense about the basement because it was a convenient strawman to attack because Comet Ping Pong had no basement. That wasn't even the main investigative point of the /r/pizzagate sub.
In fact, the day the sub was shutdown they were crowd-sourcing cross-reference material between the 24,000 names that the hackers uncovered from the pedo network spread across Twitter with the names in the Wikileaks e-mails from John Podesta's account.
There were even a few crossover hits, like the guy with the distillery in Hawaii who was selling "cheese" and other odd items on eBay for $10,000.
Then focus on the suspicious shit and not on a pizza parlor with no basement!
When you have tens of thousands of autists weaponizing that shit, you will have plenty of ones whose speculation goes awry, come to weird conclusions, and become certain of things entirely based on their hunches. That's the trouble with conspiracies, you are building narratives from fragmented, coded ideas and then welding it together as best you can. Sometimes it uncovers reality (McCarthy) or sometimes it becomes something beyond reality (later McCarthyism).
That's not even getting into the idea that the entire pizza parlor was a false flag, which even if the idea itself wasn't, the shooting almost certainly was.
They did. That's exactly what /r/pizzagate was doing.
The media was the one blasting the pizza parlor nonsense about the basement because it was a convenient strawman to attack because Comet Ping Pong had no basement. That wasn't even the main investigative point of the /r/pizzagate sub.
In fact, the day the sub was shutdown they were crowd-sourcing cross-reference material between the 24,000 names that the hackers uncovered from the pedo network spread across Twitter with the names in the Wikileaks e-mails from John Podesta's account.
There were even a few crossover hits, like the guy with the distillery in Hawaii who was selling "cheese" and other odd items on eBay for $10,000.