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Anonymous wrote:What's most disturbing to me is that every piece of evidence showing that this is not true just because a piece of the conspiracy for believers. Short of shutting down the internet I really don't see how you can combat this garbage

This is silly. We don't need to shut down the damn Internet.

While there is obviously no child abuse going on here, there was evidence of some kind of weird secrecy or creepiness. This sort of thing (even when there's nothing actually reprehensible underlying it), once made known, will tend to lead to unfortunate rumors and conspiracies if powerful and prominent people are even tangentially connected. The world was ever thus.

This isn't "blaming the victim." Sometimes it's best not to post photos of little kids taped down to your restaurant's tables. For the same reasons that I don't want my daughter to ever go around town without wearing clothing. There's just a good chance it might lead to something unfortunate.

Also, for those of you who are interested in exploring root causes rather than just dismissing people as crazy: My guess is that it doesn't help that the mainstream media really has gotten a lot wrong over recent years. They treated Hillary's win over Trump as an inevitability, as the most obvious, recent example. And the Post's PropOrNot piece was laughable as credible journalism.

Have you ever once been to Comet PingPing? It's a fun, family friendly restaurant. We love going there. I've never once seen "evidence" of some kind of "weird secrecy." Stop spouting nonsense.

Yes, I have been there multiple times. Including with my child. I live not far away. Again, I certainly don't believe anything horrible happened there. But I still wouldn't publicly post some of the photos the owner did. (And my post about weird secrecy was more directed toward the seeming code in the Podesta emails.)

My mom once wanted to put photos of my toddler in the bathtub on FB. I told her that she couldn't. The Internet is forever, and not everyone in the world is good. If I owned a small family-oriented business connected to my posted photos, I probably would have been even more adamant.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:discussing whether the owner at comet should have done x, y or z - is really just an elaborate game of deflection or blame the victim. It is just plain wrong. We all want to believe "that they must have done something " to deserve it. Otherwise, we would have to acknowledge that any one of us could be victims of the bizarre hate of a random stranger. But the awful truth is that comet's owners, the employees and the patrons did NOTHiNg to deserve being terrorized. This discussion is being trolled but please stop pretending the crazy propAganda sourced and manAged from a Reddit group merits a pro and con analysis. It is sad and pathetic to blame the owner for being attacked by a Reddit subgroup.

Disagree with your initial assertion. I am a female who won't go jogging in DC with headphones on at night. Am I blaming myself for my possible victimhood? Or maybe some things are just a good idea.

I'm not a troll. I'm a real woman with a child who lives down the street off of Connecticut and has never voted for a Republican.

Anonymous wrote:Podesta has some unusual taste in art and friends. Biljana Djurdjevic's art is on the edge of cringe-worthy.

https://i.sli.mg/dBY95x.jpg

Is it true that Podesta likes this kind of art? While I don't think there is anything to the Comet Pizza thing, if this is his taste, I can certainly see why some are buzzing.

Anonymous wrote:discussing whether the owner at comet should have done x, y or z - is really just an elaborate game of deflection or blame the victim. It is just plain wrong. We all want to believe "that they must have done something " to deserve it. Otherwise, we would have to acknowledge that any one of us could be victims of the bizarre hate of a random stranger. But the awful truth is that comet's owners, the employees and the patrons did NOTHiNg to deserve being terrorized. This discussion is being trolled but please stop pretending the crazy propAganda sourced and manAged from a Reddit group merits a pro and con analysis. It is sad and pathetic to blame the owner for being attacked by a Reddit subgroup.

Anonymous wrote:discussing whether the owner at comet should have done x, y or z - is really just an elaborate game of deflection or blame the victim. It is just plain wrong. We all want to believe "that they must have done something " to deserve it. Otherwise, we would have to acknowledge that any one of us could be victims of the bizarre hate of a random stranger. But the awful truth is that comet's owners, the employees and the patrons did NOTHiNg to deserve being terrorized. This discussion is being trolled but please stop pretending the crazy propAganda sourced and manAged from a Reddit group merits a pro and con analysis. It is sad and pathetic to blame the owner for being attacked by a Reddit subgroup.

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Anonymous wrote:What's most disturbing to me is that every piece of evidence showing that this is not true just because a piece of the conspiracy for believers. Short of shutting down the internet I really don't see how you can combat this garbage

This is silly. We don't need to shut down the damn Internet.

While there is obviously no child abuse going on here, there was evidence of some kind of weird secrecy or creepiness. This sort of thing (even when there's nothing actually reprehensible underlying it), once made known, will tend to lead to unfortunate rumors and conspiracies if powerful and prominent people are even tangentially connected. The world was ever thus.

This isn't "blaming the victim." Sometimes it's best not to post photos of little kids taped down to your restaurant's tables. For the same reasons that I don't want my daughter to ever go around town without wearing clothing. There's just a good chance it might lead to something unfortunate.

Also, for those of you who are interested in exploring root causes rather than just dismissing people as crazy: My guess is that it doesn't help that the mainstream media really has gotten a lot wrong over recent years. They treated Hillary's win over Trump as an inevitability, as the most obvious, recent example. And the Post's PropOrNot piece was laughable as credible journalism.

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Anonymous wrote:What's most disturbing to me is that every piece of evidence showing that this is not true just because a piece of the conspiracy for believers. Short of shutting down the internet I really don't see how you can combat this garbage

This is silly. We don't need to shut down the damn Internet.

While there is obviously no child abuse going on here, there was evidence of some kind of weird secrecy or creepiness. This sort of thing (even when there's nothing actually reprehensible underlying it), once made known, will tend to lead to unfortunate rumors and conspiracies if powerful and prominent people are even tangentially connected. The world was ever thus.

This isn't "blaming the victim." Sometimes it's best not to post photos of little kids taped down to your restaurant's tables. For the same reasons that I don't want my daughter to ever go around town without wearing clothing. There's just a good chance it might lead to something unfortunate.

Also, for those of you who are interested in exploring root causes rather than just dismissing people as crazy: My guess is that it doesn't help that the mainstream media really has gotten a lot wrong over recent years. They treated Hillary's win over Trump as an inevitability, as the most obvious, recent example. And the Post's PropOrNot piece was laughable as credible journalism.

Have you ever once been to Comet PingPing? It's a fun, family friendly restaurant. We love going there. I've never once seen "evidence" of some kind of "weird secrecy." Stop spouting nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:What's most disturbing to me is that every piece of evidence showing that this is not true just because a piece of the conspiracy for believers. Short of shutting down the internet I really don't see how you can combat this garbage

This is silly. We don't need to shut down the damn Internet.

While there is obviously no child abuse going on here, there was evidence of some kind of weird secrecy or creepiness. This sort of thing (even when there's nothing actually reprehensible underlying it), once made known, will tend to lead to unfortunate rumors and conspiracies if powerful and prominent people are even tangentially connected. The world was ever thus.

This isn't "blaming the victim." Sometimes it's best not to post photos of little kids taped down to your restaurant's tables. For the same reasons that I don't want my daughter to ever go around town without wearing clothing. There's just a good chance it might lead to something unfortunate.

Also, for those of you who are interested in exploring root causes rather than just dismissing people as crazy: My guess is that it doesn't help that the mainstream media really has gotten a lot wrong over recent years. They treated Hillary's win over Trump as an inevitability, as the most obvious, recent example. And the Post's PropOrNot piece was laughable as credible journalism.

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Edgar M. Welch said in an arraignment released on Monday that he had read online that the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Northwest Washington was “harboring child sex slaves, and he wanted to see for himself if they were there,” according to court documents.

He was armed to help rescue children but surrendered peacefully “when he found no evidence that underage children were being harbored in the restaurant.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/business/media/comet-ping-pong-pizza-shooting-fake-news-consequences.html?smid=tw-share

This is not that bad, people. He just wanted to be sure it was OK in there.

Anonymous wrote:Did they really post pictures of kids taped to tables? Gee.

Anonymous wrote:So far, Trump doesn't seem to be good for smalle businesses.

Anonymous wrote:What's most disturbing to me is that every piece of evidence showing that this is not true just because a piece of the conspiracy for believers. Short of shutting down the internet I really don't see how you can combat this garbage