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Comment by Gargoyle

>If you knowingly post and spread damaging fake information (deliberately engineered to accuse people of child molestation) on the internet[...]

What you're missing here is that they genuinely believe it to be true. As incredible as that may seem to you and me, that is the reality of it.

I've actually been lurking in r/pizzagate since the start, watching in horror and fascination as people convince themselves of the most outrageous things. But they're convincing themselves, and they do actually believe.

parent Gargoyle 10 years ago

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