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gogogogostop ago

Don't knock me here, I'm just thinking critically. Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but facts are important.

I'm finding that many of these supposed research posts on voat just use other voat posts to try to qualify their claims. And very often, those claims appear to have grown out of their own imagination. This OP appears to be one of them.

A train line is being built to transport human trafficking victims from Los Angeles to Las Vegas? The wildfires in California are evidence of this?

It sounds just like the stories about Jeffrey Epstein's island burning down, based on a single indistinguishable image. Or the claim that triangles and spirals refer to pedophilia, based on the decorations commonly found in many pizza parlors. No real proof. Just a lot of making connections that might not really be there. But if you keep piling it up........

The mods demand sources for a reason, but not every little claim can be expected to be sourced, and that allows little things to creep in that aren't necessarily accurate, but influence people's thinking in a particular direction.

Some quoted examples:

It appears at least some of the fires were intentional...

What percentage of fires appeared to be intentional? How were they determined to be intentional? Who determined?

The highway bloodline of i-15 is critical to the movement of drugs, weapons and humans.

Why is it critical? How do you know this? Who says so? Why are other routes no good?

...Alwaleed bin Talil, the same billionaire that was arrested. It is alleged that he is part of a human trafficking operation run out of these top floors...

Who claims that he runs an operation out of the hotel? What evidence is there of that?

And then there are deeper innuendos being made that are left to the reader to make the connections themselves, such as connecting Richard Branson and others to human trafficking through their investments in Twitter (huh?).

Making small unverified claims to support larger claims doesn't equate to logical thinking and it's not valid research. In this case, it looks more like research efforts that came up empty, but the author has a theory that he/she doesn't want to let go of or research further before posting.

The premise of the OP just lacks any real substance, as do many of the other voat posts it uses as sources. The initial claim that wildfires are being purposely set in order to build a rail line switched tracks (pun intended) and became a claim that the people named are somehow all mutually connected to human trafficking by way of their investments in Twitter.

HUH???