Billy Graham's Flagship Publication, "Christianity Today," Decries QAnon As "Demonic" And "A Great Threat To The American Church" Preaching "Predatory Drivel" - "A Wolf In Wolf's Clothing"
Why do some of Trump’s supporters believe that pizzagate is a real thing when there is no evidence of it whatsoever and why do they also believe former President Obama was on Epstein’s flight log when they don’t have any evidence of it?
The Obama thing is either true or not and the evidence will come out.
I’ll take Pizzagate.
99.9% of people who believe in Pizzagate have never even thought to look at the source material. All they’ve done is read a few web articles that say that the evidence is compelling and can mean nothing else. These are articles written by people they trust. They appear to make sense and they say things that they want to believe. What else do we do?
Have you seen the original emails?
I did read a few of Hillary Clinton’s leaked emails that were said to be part of Pizzagate. In my opinion, there was nothing in it. They were perfectly normal emails that occasionally talked about pizza, as will a lot of office emails where many late nights are worked.
Humans are incredibly good at pattern recognition. It’s one of our primary skills. We can recognise images that no AI can. We see faces in clouds and tree-trunks. We hear music in raindrops. Very few people understand how powerful this talent is or what it means. Instead, they see a blurry picture of Mars or the moon and see pyramids, arches and B-52 bombers in them. And they read a few emails about pizzas while wondering if the Democrats are baby-murderers and they see patterns. They try a few substitutions and it all seems to make sense.
The “Nigerian” scam is the scourge it is because of the sunk-cost fallacy. Once you have sent money to them, it is more and more difficult for you to be convinced that you made a mistake. People have sent all their money, all their relations’ and friends’ money and still believe that after just one more payment they will be proved correct. Even if someone proves that it is a scam, they still believe in the existence of the original person who contacted them — it was only all the corrupt barristers that were scamming them. In reality, of course it was a scam from beginning to end.
These people who come to believe in Pizzagate are in a similar position. They have sunk hours into it. They have published articles in mass-media. They have put their reputation on the line. They have to believe in it. To do otherwise would make them credulous fools. Once they are sufficiently committed, it is literally impossible for them to consider the possibility that they are wrong.
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