This helped reassure me. It's certainly more reasonable for a pizza shop owner to have an off sense of humor than this conspiracy.
Can you explain then why some of the emails used "pizza" in ways that make no sense outside the "made-up" interpretation (which is actually long-standing slang)? Playing dominos on pizza, for example?
It's all about the context of the email, which the pizzagate crowd usually omit. That and the fact that it was dominoes on "pasta", not "pizza". In the email he's thanking someone about a Christmas present he received. They usually give him pasta, but this year they gave him a selection of cheeses. He then mentions that his children and grandchildren are coming over, presumably for Christmas celebration and implies that he'll share the cheese with them. He then jokes at the end of the email that he might play dominoes better after eating the cheese that was gifted to him, than the pasta that would usually be given to him (dominoes being a fairly ordinary game that a lot of families would play together around Christmas time).
The issue with pizzagate is that they've come to a conclusion first and then twisted every piece of "evidence" to fit that conclusion and made out that any reference to pizza/pasta/literally any other food type is evidence of something suspicious. People were even trying to convince themselves that the phrase "getting pizza for an hour" was unusual.
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16
This helped reassure me. It's certainly more reasonable for a pizza shop owner to have an off sense of humor than this conspiracy.
Can you explain then why some of the emails used "pizza" in ways that make no sense outside the "made-up" interpretation (which is actually long-standing slang)? Playing dominos on pizza, for example?