[rblatz]

This already happened because of QAnon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/pizzagate-attack-sente...

These people see a powerful satanic child raping cabal of power that run things from the shadows. Their champion is Donald Trump, if he were to lose this election it's not a reach to see an uptick in these sorts of attacks. Because, honestly, if this conspiracy were true, the only moral thing to do would be to oppose it.

[zozbot234]

Urban legends about a "powerful satanic child raping cabal of power that run things from the shadows" date back to the 1980s at least. Some of the underlying tropes are centuries old or even more - for instance, there's plenty of historical, blatantly biased propaganda about Roman emperors portraying them as vicious, crazy sex predators. So what's new about Pizza and Q exactly?

[happytoexplain]

What's new is the sociopolitical climate and the modern web.

[carry_bit]

The first drop by Q happened months after that story...

[rblatz]

Looks like I got my the left is full of pedo's conspiracies confused. I think the general point still stands.

[aleister_777]

I believe it was wikileaks that revealed the term "spirit cooking" along with some vague references to "having kids ready in a hottub" for the Chairman of the DNC that started pizzagate. That happened in Oct 2016.

Q didn't start posting for another year.

[anthony_romeo]

So I graciously decided to investigate the hot tub claim. The best I could find is a thread in /r/conspiracy (https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6rjx82/wikileak...) linking to https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/46736

    On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tamera Luzzatto <[e-mail]>  wrote:

    With enormous gratitude to Advance Man Extraordinaire Haber, I am popping up again to share our excitement about the Reprise of Our Gang’s visit to the farm in Lovettsville.    And I thought I’d share a couple more notes:

    We plan to heat the pool, so a swim is a possibility.    Bonnie will be Uber Service to transport Ruby, Emerson, and Maeve Luzzatto (11, 9, and almost 7) so you’ll have some further entertainment, and they will be in that pool for sure.   And with the forecast showing prospects of some sun, and a cooler temp of lower 60s, I suggest you bring sweaters of whatever attire will enable us to use our outdoor table with a pergola overhead so we dine al fresco (and ideally not al-CHILLo).

    I am ccing Trudy to repeat the invite, and sending pining wishes-you-could-come to Rima, John P, and Laurie & Chris.

    Con amore, Mrs. Farmer L