Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "How CNN stayed on air during evacuation" video.
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"If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire
Trump has ushered in an era of alt-right hatred, fear mongering, and hysteria. What's happening with these packages, is no different than what happened with Pizzagate.
The fantastical claim that Hillary was a pedo started in a Facebook post, spread to Twitter and then went viral with the help of alt-right platforms like Breitbart and Info-Wars. After following the digital trail, it was revealed that ordinary people, online activists, bots, foreign agents and domestic political operatives were responsible. Many of them were associates of the Trump campaign. Others had ties with Russia. Working together – though often unwittingly – they flourished in a new “post-truth” information ecosystem, a space where false claims are defended as absolute facts.
It all led to a man named Edgar Welch, who on December 1st, 2016, tried to persuade two friends to join a rescue mission. Alex Jones, the Info-Wars host, was reporting that Hillary was abusing children in satanic rituals a few hundred miles north, in the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant. Welch told his friends the “raid” on a “pedo ring” might require them to “sacrifice the lives of a few for the lives of many.” A friend texted, “Sounds like we r freeing some oppressed pizza from the hands of an evil pizza joint.” Welch was undeterred. Three days later, armed with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a .38 handgun and a folding knife, he strolled into the restaurant and headed toward the back, where children were playing ping-pong. As waitstaff went table to table, whispering to customers to get out, Welch maneuvered into the restaurant’s kitchen. He shot open a lock and found cooking supplies. He whipped open another door and found an employee bringing in fresh pizza dough. Welch did not find any captive children – Comet Ping Pong does not even have a basement – but he did prove, if there were any lingering doubts after the election, that ACTUAL fake news has real consequences.
"If you can get people to believe in absurdities, then you can get them to commit atrocities."
--Voltaire
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