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by Ben Mathis-Lilley at Salonhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/07/pizzagate_accusations_spread_to_austin_new_york.html
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In Austin, Texas, according to the Austin American-Statesman, the East Side Pies mini-chain has been the subject of online and phone harassment (and one incident of IRL vandalism) by individuals who have "interpreted the restaurants logo as a symbol of the 'illuminati,' questioned the meaning of photos of pizza-eating children on East Side Pies Facebook account, inferred that a picture of staffers with former Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell was proof of nefarious political ties and claimed co-owner Michael Freid, an alumnus of the Culinary Institute of America, had 'connections to the CIA.' "
DNAInfo writes that an employee of the Brooklyn pizza restaurant Roberta's received a telephoned death threat after it was identified as a hub of satanic activity in a YouTube video posted by an individual who made similar claims about a restaurant in Amherst, New York, which is near Buffalo.
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Here's a strange fact from the Washington Post's comprehensive and disturbing report about the Comet pizza affair, which culminated on Sunday when a man from North Carolina entered the restaurant and fired at least one shot from a rifle:
An oddly disproportionate share of the tweets about Pizzagate appear to have come from, of all places, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam, said Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of media analytics at Elon University in North Carolina. In some cases, the most avid retweeters appeared to be bots, programs designed to amplify certain news and information.
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applegrove
(118,012 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)applegrove
(118,012 posts)Dorian Gray
(13,469 posts)Initech
(99,912 posts)angrychair
(8,593 posts)The United States of Idiocracy....it's got electrolytes!
Oneironaut
(5,461 posts)where anyone or anything can be villified. It's just like the myths about Jews that spread just before the Nazis killed them. I'm waiting for the first "Mosque-gate," "Transgender-gate," or "Minority-gate," where the goons are given their marching orders to cleanse society for the white male.
Ever wondered how the Nazis started? This is it. It can happen again.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)motives. I suspect the latter. I agree with everything you said. About half of the US population are damn fools IMO and extremely gullible. Others are looking for violence. It's really a sick place.
Dorian Gray
(13,469 posts)dystopian novels I've read and movies I've seen, who knew we'd be a combination of Idiocracy and The Purge?
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)not even clear what we can do about it
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:38 AM - Edit history (1)
WHAT COULD IT BE, IF NOT PROOF OF A SINISTER CONSPIRACY?
Oneironaut
(5,461 posts)I just don't know! Hmm... What could that be?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)KEEP YOUR ILLUMINATI HALF LIZARD-HALF PEPPERONI GLOBAL DOMINATION DOMINOS PLOT FAR FROM ME
Oneironaut
(5,461 posts)DBoon
(22,285 posts)But we know what satanic pizza does to one's gastrointestinal track.
Smells like hell.
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)It's the eye. THE EYE!
Wake up, sheeple!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)underpants
(182,273 posts)Oh crap like Satan worshipping circle
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)Have a flaming logo. That kinda thing.
That would blow their fragile little minds.
Mariana
(14,849 posts)I would expect such a place to be burned down pretty quickly.
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)Need a solid insurance plan, I guess.
Might work in Austin, though. A lot of goofy stuff works in Austin. Unfortunately, Alex Jones also works in Austin.
DBoon
(22,285 posts)damn good pizza.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)Where is the USDOJ?
Before something horrible happens, this kind of lunacy needs to be stopped.
TexasTowelie
(111,292 posts)that are of Czech heritage. I'll have to get in contact with them to see if they are responsible.
On that note, if anyone going to Austin needs a Segway tour guide who yodels and wears lederhosen I can provide a referral.
BuddyCa
(99 posts)the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam?
yardwork
(61,415 posts)TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)He probably started it.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)pizza particularly, but all of the rest of the crap about Hillary, etc. The Internet has provided all of the crazies with a voice where in past years they might be talking to a shrink.
meow2u3
(24,743 posts)Just asking. How else would he come up with this bizarre pack of lies about Hillary and John Podesta unless he's guilty himself of such heinous criminal activity? Can you say "projection"?
Egnever
(21,506 posts)If people are really buying into this sort of crap we may already be too far gone.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Simple pizza slices my ass!
Dorian Gray
(13,469 posts)Not a lot. Maybe three or four times a year. It's great pizza. They do have anti-religious symbolism. And upside down cross held by death with a sickle. The Cheesus Christ pizza. They're anti-establishment. (Saying that knowing that they just got a huge cash injunction from a very established funder of restaurants in NYC.)
I'm a practicing Catholic, and I just roll my eyes at it and enjoy the pizza.
It's just the way they are.
I've never seen hint of child sex rings happening there. ::Eyeroll::
People are oddly.... very stupid.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Triangular shape, not a food native to 'Murca.
Initech
(99,912 posts)And they have to be smoking some pretty strong shit in order to buy into this nonsense.
Calculating
(2,954 posts)At the current rate things are going I could almost see "The Purge" becoming reality in a decade or two. Truth/science/fact denial seem to be at all-time highs. If you wanna beat somebody in politics all you gotta do is keep throwing mud at the wall until some sticks. Call them a pedophile or say they're a member of a satanic cult and you'll probably get >20% of the public believing you.
elmac
(4,642 posts)paranoid delusional mixed with stupid. Very dangerous.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)What pizza parlors have Trump and Hastert been known to frequent?
They have both been exposed as sexual perverts around children.
Has Trump eaten pizza in his own businesses?
The crazies would believe in such associations, wouldn't they.
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)attacking pizza is flat out un-American.
rickford66
(5,498 posts)I don't tweet but I remember it on the Daily Show. They ate it with forks!!