I've spent the better part of a week in this sub. Researching a ton, looking into things with everyone else, and it seems like every possible "lead" turns into a SMOKING GUN in someone's eyes.
THIS is why the media is having a heyday calling this "fake news" all a journalist need to do is come here to Voat, look at the half-assed cockamamie "detective" work being done, and they've got enough ammo to report it as fake.
Why don't people be more objective? Quit claiming that things are FACTS when it's just an opinion, or a theory.
As of right now, this 'investigation' is nothing more than speculation, conjecture, and assumptions.
People seeing weird things and asking "why". Fine, ask the questions. Ask "why". Investigate, but don't make claims unless you can actually prove something.
With that being said, the recent development of James Alefantis doing remodeling on an 87 year old Russian's guy house that is almost right next to the playground at 11th and Monroe is interesting. I'm not accusing him of using the playground to nab children, but it is interesting.
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Millennial_Falcon ago
There's a little of that, and we do need more skepticism in certain respects, but for the most part people are just investigating potential leads. The core evidence is strong enough on its own to show that pizzagate is real. Why don't you go to the sticky post and try to argue that's all confirmation bias (it isn't). I see in some of your other comments you talk as if you believe pizzagate is real, but in others you talk about "all this pizzagate stuff."
"You don't have any proof of anything, just a theory, conjecture, and speculation.. like the rest of this pizzagate stuff." -You
If you don't think pizzagate is real, why are you here?
r3dtr1x ago
I've got a great deal of cognitive dissonance with this whole thing. It's confusing. The way I personally feel can best be summed up as saying the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Millennial_Falcon ago
It is challenging to separate out the disinformation, and be sure what exactly the truth is, but truth is truth. It does not compromise.
llm2016 ago
Confirmation bias = shills presume it to be false, so everything suspicious has to be fake or a joke.
r3dtr1x ago
Correct. And likewise, for the conspiracy-minded - everyhing suspicious is "evidence" or a "smoking gun"