Re:Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them
by geofft on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:27PM
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I believe your interpretation of the facts. But the other interpretation, which a bunch of folks hold firmly to, is that Pizzagate is accurate and the NYT is publishing this article as a way of discrediting it.
The problem is that you have to believe either that there's a vast Russian conspiracy to destroy America by manipulating the media, or a vast American conspiracy to run a child trafficking ring by manipulating the media. There isn't a particularly compelling explanation of the facts where you don't believe in a conspiracy at all. And since both possibilities are so far out of our usual experience, the people who favor each interpretation talk past each other.
The problem is that you have to believe either that there's a vast Russian conspiracy to destroy America by manipulating the media, or a vast American conspiracy to run a child trafficking ring by manipulating the media. There isn't a particularly compelling explanation of the facts where you don't believe in a conspiracy at all. And since both possibilities are so far out of our usual experience, the people who favor each interpretation talk past each other.