Long post here but I'm earnest in my hope that pizzagate skeptics will give it a read and comment. There needs to be an actual debate rather than just snarky dismissals. The media isn't doing its job. They keep going on about "conspiracy theorists" and "alt-right Trump supporters" while failing to mention any of the relevant information. That alone is suspicious to me.

Please feel free to post this on skeptic boards.

I really don't want to believe in Pizzagate. Perhaps you can convince me I shouldn't.

I think there is too much pedo hysteria in general. It's tragic that men no longer want to work with children. Unlike, say, the relative lack of women in STEM (science doesn't care what gender you are) the lack of men in teaching creates real life harm. Children need both male and female role models, especially at a time when so many mothers are single. Social scientists are increasingly becoming aware of just how crucial men are to early childhood development. I'm not sure what the solution is but clearly something needs to be done. Anyway, long and short is that I'm not remotely interested in spreading false news about pedophilia.

I don't support either the Democrats or Republicans, so I don't have a dog in this fight. Actually, from what I gather most Pizzagate researchers believe this to be a bipartisan scandal.

I also take false accusations very seriously. It would horrify to me learn that I was engaged in a witch hunt. I support the Men's Rights Movement's attempts to draw attention to the plight of men falsely accused of sexual crimes.

One thing we know for certain: there are elite pedo rings currently operating in the United States. Pedophiles make up at least 4 percent of the population, and billionaires are not excluded from that statistic.

Another thing we can say with reasonable certainty: high ranking individuals in intelligence agencies are aware of these rings and probably using them for blackmail purposes. A more horrifying possibility is that pedophiles are deliberately being placed in power because they are compromised.

Bad arguments against Pizza Gate:

It's a "conspiracy theory" and can therefore be dismissed. Apparently the corporate media thinks this is an actual argument. It isn't.

Snopes said it isn't true. See above.

Pizzagate is made up of alt right Trump supporters who hate Hillary Clinton. This is obviously true in some cases, but based on my reading of the Voat forum there are plenty of left wing people involved as well.

if it were true the perps would have been busted. Unfortunately past cases involving elite pedo rings, whether the Fraklin Coverup, the Dutroux Affair, Jimmy Saville etc. display a clear pattern of LEO's covering up for the perps. Why they do this is uncertain. Some of them may be involved. Blackmail may be an issue (there is widespread suspicion that elite pedo rings are run by intelligence agencies). Some LEO's may fear for their lives or those of their families.

There are too many women being singled out for this to be plausible. Pedophilia is a male thing. This is a myth. Some studies have the percentage of female pedophiles as high as 40%.

Parents and grandparents wouldn't pimp out their own offspring. Another myth. Unfortunately busts of low level pedo rings show people doing exactly that.

Politicians are fine upstanding people. I only include this argument because it's a common one for X politician of choice. "Trump's a good man!" "Obama's a good man!" These are emotional arguments. People project their own value systems onto their rulers. This is unwise, since according to Dr. Robert Hare, the world's leading expert on psychopathy, politicians and business leaders are significantly more likely to be psychopaths than the rest of the population.

We have no witnesses. Someone would have spoken out. Pedo rings are often busted by computer divisions in LE. Oftentimes none of the children will have said a word. Pedophiles tend to be quite good at ensuring silence through shame and fear. This is especially true of powerful pedophiles. Nor is it outside the realm of possibility that some of these children are being killed. It's a terrifying thought, but we're talking about people who have no problem killing millions in unnecessary wars of aggression.

Coincidences all?

I don't necessarily agree with the following arguments but for the sake of narrowing things down I'll pretend as though I do:

The pedo symbols on the two business next to and across from comet, one of which works with "at risk youth", are a coincidence.