What is #Pizzagate?

[Wombaticus Rex]

This is a big reason why there is no culture of intelligent analysis and attempts to speculate with method about the dark matter of politics

I agree completely.

I also suspect their cowardice is not, ultimately, the fault of idiots.

[JackRiddler]

Your writing on Angleton (and lots of other issues) is a great example of informed, methodical research into the dark matter of politics, of course.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Your writing on Angleton (and lots of other issues) is a great example of informed, methodical research into the dark matter of politics, of course.

And verily, if I were braver, I'd have written a whole lot more besides.

Anyways, like I say perhaps too often, a lil' sprinkling of GLP-tier content can't hurt, especially since it keeps our immune system strong. Better to focus that energy on tearing apart actual antibodies than, say, debating the soft authoritarianism of post count inequality, or analyzing ianeye's video curation for signs of creeping Pepe.

We could do worse. My inspirational credo for 2017.

[Elvis]

Re: the "sexualization of pizza"? Is there any food sexier than Italian? And they say health-wise, the Mediterranian diet is the best in the West.


Anyway, "pedogate" is a word that might be useful if not associated with "pizzagate."

The Professor stopped by one evening and when I brought up pizzagate, he said, "I don't pay attention to any scandal that ends in 'gate'."

Should "_____gate" be consigned to the dustbin?

[Iamwhomiam]

Hell, yeah. Please!

[Burnt Hill]

Viva l'Italia!

Aphrodisiacs and conception

Italians have the reputation for romance, and even their food just seems to make an evening more romantic. Even better, then, that some of the ingredients popular in Italian cuisine are considered aphrodisiacs.

One of my favorite Italian foods is pesto. As it turns out, pesto contains four ingredients that rank up there for supposedly helping put people in the mood: basil, olive oil, pine nuts and garlic.

Basil supposedly helps sex drive by promoting relaxation. It's also used in aromatherapy to improve mood. Basil is high in magnesium, and magnesium has been demonstrated to cause muscle relaxation. Magnesium is good for sleep, too, so I would guess it's a balance between relaxation and sleep!

Olive oil is packed with vitamin E and healthy fats. I came across a study (Lipids. 2009 Apr;44(4):345-57) that showed that coconut oil and olive oil fed to rats led to increased testosterone production compared to soy oil or grapeseed oil. Perhaps that is due to the high vitamin E content in olive oil, which increases blood flow to the genital area, but it's probably also due to the healthy fats olive oil contains. The fats actually help the body absorb the vitamin E, so how helpful that they're packaged together in olive oil!

But back to testosterone. Low testosterone is a cause of low libido in men, and it production naturally decreases with age.

Pine nuts were an aphrodisiac of the Romans. Men supposedly ate them with honey and almonds for three days to help them perform. They contain a lot of zinc, and that's necessary for testosterone production. For women, low zinc is also tied to a lack of interest in sex, and many women who have taken the pill for a long time are zinc-deficient.

We can't forget garlic. All jokes about the odor and scaring off vampires aside, garlic is a vasodilator, meaning it relaxes the blood vessels. Like nitric oxide, it allows more blood flow to the reproductive organs.

Who knew that pesto was such a powerful aphrodisiac? If you are trying to conceive, perhaps more Italian food is just what you need.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art177816.asp

[JackRiddler]

Now they want to sexualize our pizza!

A rich theme, it seems. 459,000 hits.

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q="sex+and+pizza"&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[elfismiles]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-XgMymBIY0

[JackRiddler]

Wow to that Pizza Hut commercial with Trump and Ivanka. Complete with godless divorce joke. It's not (only) a joke to say this is easily tied for most conclusive evidentiary discovery to come out of the entire "PG" complex. There you have it in one bite: Trump and perversion, pizza as encoded meaning.

As MLK said:

"The wait of the Internet is long, but it bends toward delivery!"

[Iamwhomiam]

His fingers scare me!

[liminalOyster]

[SonicG]

"This Saxaphone Kills Fascists" Arrington De Dionyso (live in Sac)
Friday March 3rd 2017 at The Golden Lion. Arrington is a NW based artist. He has made records for K Records and murals for Comet Ping Pong Pizza and much much more. The sax and drums are on a new level of spirit jam.

[Elvis]

Olympia, WA has always had some very cool creative & counterculture scenes, not least around Evergreen state college.

I can't remember if this interview was posted somewhere, but here's a bit of a conversation with Dionyso:

After being dragged into one of 2016’s strangest news stories over a mural he made six years ago, Arrington de Dionyso took a public stand against far-right extremists’ mob censorship.
Blair Murphy

Blair Murphy: You’re an artist and a musician, and it seems that many of the people who have been targeted by the right wing extremist trolls and paranoid conspiracy theorists who latched onto Pizzagate are artists. Does it seem like that’s an accident?

Arrington de Dionyso: I think it’s a very deliberate assault, which will eventually be a coordinated assault on all forms of free expression. But I think they’re starting with artists who might be exploring themes of queerness or resisting dominant paradigms in their work or artists who, there may be aspects of their work that might already be inviting a certain kind of controversy. And they’re definitely running that really hard through this very fictitious link to these occult themes and reading quite a lot into it.

BM: It seems like the conspiracy probably started with people writing on a message board who knew it wasn’t real and were making it up to troll people, but it took off from there.

AD: This may not be part of this specific story, but I lost some people in the Ghost Ship fire, people who were very vital to our community here in Olympia, Washington, people who had grown up here who were living in Oakland. So there was this horrible, horrible tragedy, something that is affecting everyone I know. Within a day of that news coming out, I found YouTube videos by two different people that were not only using images of my artwork, but also using images taken from my social media sites of me, of friends, using images from a MySpace account from 2006, so really going back. And these videos were just picking out the most open-to-interpretation images and giving them very specific perspectives, analyzing me for connections to Satanism, which is completely false. They were posting pictures of an ex-girlfriend who I had barely seen in eight years or so but who looked a little bit like Chelsea Clinton, so they were trying to use it to argue that I have some intimate connection to the Clinton family. I mean, they have the same hair color. That’s not Chelsea Clinton.

So when it got to be such a bizarre violation of privacy, I started to get a little louder about this. And then, within a few days, I wrote a couple of people and I realized the extent to which some of the female musicians and performance artists have been getting very violent and sexually graphic types of messages on a daily basis, whereas the kind of targeting I was getting up to that point was really mostly about the artwork, along with some speculation about who I might be. But when I realized how deeply personal and threatening to their safety these other harassing messages had been, I felt that, at least, I had maybe less to lose by getting louder and reaching out to my community and letting people know what was going on, creating a statement that could be sent to the press and have it be something we could be a little more open about the fact that this was going on and has been happening for a while.

BM: So that’s when you decided to write the statement on Medium?

AD: I had written a statement on my personal Facebook that I also put on Instagram and a friend reached out and said, “We can edit this down a little bit and we can put it on this sharing platform that reaches a different audience.” He helped me work on some edits for it and the response has been really amazing, I think it’s been read 20,000 or 30,000 times and I only put it up a week ago.

BM: You mentioned earlier being worried that this is potentially a precursor or a sign of things to come as far as trying to quash dissenting voices. Instead of having the government tell people what they can and can’t say, you have this group of people online who are willing to essentially harass other people into silence. Do you have any thoughts on how to resist that going forward, as someone who has been trying to deal with it and speak out about it?

AD: For as much as we talk about the echo chambers and bubbles we’re living in, every time I’ve made any kind of statement about the harassment I’m experiencing, the support has been thunderously loud and unanimous. And I really do believe that we who reject this type of flagrantly immoral witch hunt and spread of misinformation, those of us who oppose that are clearly in the majority. I think no matter what happens we really have to keep reminding ourselves of that. We are in the majority.

I make art because I want it to be viewed; I make music because I want people to hear it. I want it to affect people, I want it to have an impact. And I’ve been getting nothing but support not only from my immediate networks but also from people who have seen the Medium story who are reaching out, telling me: “I’ve never heard of your art, I’ve never heard your music, but now I’m checking it out, it’s great, I want to hear more, don’t let these people stop you.” I’m getting so much affirmation and I really hope that there’s some potential for the spirit behind that affirmation to become an organizing principle for people opposed to this kind of mob censorship.


http://hyperallergic.com/347458/artist- ... ry-speaks/

I really like this “Woman with Two Tigers” (2016, acrylic ink and acrylic paint on paper):

Dionyso woman-two-tigers.jpg

[SonicG]

Ever since Brian Baker was dragged into this, I have been forced to look further into the current wave of "everything that ever seemed slightly subversive is tainted with 'Deep State' control." And a lot of the underlying reasoning has to do with what seems to be a rather conservative ideology regarding modernism. I recently discovered Miles Mathis and was thinking of a separate thread opposed to this kind of neo-puritanism but I am not sure I could weather the storm...

[Jerky]

Dude, that's exactly what I've been saying about this PizzaGate bullshit from JUMP STREET! It's nothing but one tentacle of the alt-right warmed over rehash of the Nazi war on "decadent Modernism" and "degenerate art". That's a skeleton key to much of this PizzaGate psyop Mystery School.

Jerky