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Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You talk a lot about instagram

Because that is where Alefantis posted.

There are no other pictures related to this child.

There are more. E.g. wearing a "pizza slut" t-shirt.

YOU are claiming the other photos are connected.

Yes. Alefantis commented on most or is connected via his restaurant.

Also notice that the simple explanation isn't good enough

If you want to claim a slamdunk debunk then the simple explanation must be the only explanation, or the suspicious explanation is shown to be impossible.

Your "debunk" falls far short.

The only claim I made is that I have seen no proof of illegal activity.

You claimed pizzagate is absolute garbage. That it was debunked.

2 dudes on a street correr and a BMW parked nearby is not proof of illegal activity. But it is suspicious. You want the police to check it out.

I'm worried about one who see that photo as normalization of child abuse.

Dude, you're the one obsessed with this particular photo.

"There is a gay person in my life that I love, and they live a meaningful, fulfilling life." Send your gay strawman away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please remove the quotation marks. That's not how words work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is a gay person in my life that I love, and they live a meaningful, fulfilling life. I love gays. Great fun.

What I don't like seeing them being irrelevantly dragged into arguments in an attempt to distract and score cheap points.

This has nothing to do with showing that the claims made by pizzagate are impossible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Cool. There are gay people I love too. Wouldn't change a thing about them.

Dude, you’re the one obsessed with this particular photo.

Sure am. You see someone showed it to me in a document they linked. They called the dossier the best evidence of pizzagate. That dossier has this particular photo. It even said "We might as well start with this picture of a girl taped to a table, which is probably the most widely referenced one." Of course, that " girl taped to a table" was standing on the floor with her arms affixed to a table with masking tape, and not even a lot of tape.

That photo sure stirred up a frenzy. My claim was that anytime anything that is purported to be concrete evidence is investigated, it sure looks like nothing upon inspection. The pizzagater always plays the Homonym Game. "I was talking about a different photo?" Well, I'm talking about this photo.

So if you argue that frenzies show there must be something happening, I will point to THIS picture. Because it is THIS that picture that by itself caused a frenzy. Read the words around the picture. Then read my proposal of the only definition of pizzagate i can agree with

Pizzagate: The believe that real world damage can be caused simply by never admitting any harmless explanations regardless of plausibility.

So 4chan decides to use Pizzagate as a weapon to sick on this shop owner and his friends and family. It fits just fine.

You act like I'm cherry-picking, because you know most people aren't going to check, and the kinds of people that do check don't fall for this shit.

Well, that piece of "evidence" is clearly trash. Anyone trying to sell it to me thinks I'm stupid. Why would I bother?

Do you have a dossier that does NOT include wastes of time?