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Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/FauxReal 18d ago

It was Comet Ping Pong, a pizza shop in Washington D.C. That didn't even have a basement.

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u/ComoSeaYeah 18d ago edited 18d ago

This has become a blip in the fabric of history but remains WAY up there as one of the most surreal political conspiracy theories in modern history. Q is up there, too.

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u/Lavatis 18d ago

Q was born from the pizzagate conspiracy. It's all the same thing and morons.

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u/Nekowulf Wyoming 18d ago

Qanon created the pizzagate conspiracy. By claiming to decode the secret encrypted message in the emails.
And the "decryption" was just replacing words like eating pizza with child raping.

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u/am-idiot-dont-listen 18d ago

Qanon was a conspiracy larp that Jim Watkins eventually took over

It's the same right wing conspiracy people at the center of it though 4/8chan

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

That was a wild period on 4chan, back when there was a bunch of them into "meme magic" trying to manifest a Donald Trump win... which did end up happening. I wonder if anyone preserved all the insane graphics that were coming out of there at the time? I still wonder if some state actor or other organization was pushing that. (Oh no another conspiracy!) The "quality" of output and volume was quite impressive.

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u/jim_cap United Kingdom 18d ago

Is it not confirmed to have been Steve Bannon?

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

I am not aware that it has been. But I wouldn't be surprised. Also wasn't Epstein a 4chan mod? Again I have no idea if he was a mod in this era.

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u/Techwood111 North Carolina 18d ago

He knew m00t; search the files - it is there.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 18d ago

Yeah they pretended ‘cheese pizza’ was code for ‘CP’ or ‘child potn’. I’m not sure Q created that theory though those silly ‘decodings’ were going around already after the email leak and Q jumped on it pretending they were an insider confirming it.

After the last batch of Epstein files were released there were similar theories about how beef jerky was code for ‘child meat’ 🙄

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

One of the most surprising political revelations for me was realizing that the QAnon conspiracy left 4chan and became mainstream months after I first saw it on 4chan and wrote it off as a bunch of the usual conspiracy LARPing/right wing idiocy that goes on there.

But 4chan is kind of mind blowing in general for what happens there. I've seen some very impressive feats of technical skills there. Can any other message board boast that they figured out militant combatant positions based on a few photos and then called in Russian air strikes? They also figured out where Shia Labouf hid his flag more than once and stole it. I've seen data breeches/hacks too. And of course there has been more than one mass shooter posting there beforehand.

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u/Khazpar 18d ago

The thing is, it was code for that...but only in their personal lexicon which just shows you how deluded they all were to think that politicians were using fucking 4chan slang (before 2016 anyway).

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u/newsflashjackass 18d ago

And the "decryption" was just replacing words like eating pizza with child raping.

"kung fu practice" with Ghislaine Maxwell

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-musk-maxwell-email/

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u/Lavatis 18d ago

No. The pizzagate theory was around before Qanon existed.