• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Where did the bug eating talk start? I’ve not been offered any bugs since those grasshopper candies from Archie McPhee when I was a kid. Is it another dog whistle thing?

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      1 year ago

      It’s a far right conspiracy theory, that OP’s trying to tie to legit criticism of the CIA’s atrocities despite having nothing to do with each other-- all in order to try to hide the fact that it’s literally part of the Great Replacement conspiracy.

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        1 year ago

        I love those. Another good one is listing:

        • Vietnam
        • Afghanistan
        • Iraq
        • Ukraine

        And saying something ironically, like “this time it will be different.”

        They are purposefully hiding one tiny bit of detail thought, that Ukrainian war was started and is being fought by Russia not the US.

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      I’ve seen some scientists talk about it, but not as a “mwahahaha, we’re going to force these people to eat bugs!” kinda deal like some people seem to imply, but more just as a “this is more efficient for growing protein than traditional livestock, so there would be environmental benefits if we can persuade people to switch to it” sorta deal.

      Frankly I feel like a lot of the discussion is kinda silly, advocating that there would be benefits if people try to replace some of their meat intake with insect protein is not the same thing as forcing people to eat bugs. The intention behind advocating that is not malicious, they don’t mean just any old bugs but generally farm raised ones, and besides, people already eat bugs anyway. Plenty of cultures throughout the world have dishes involving them in various ways, and beyond that, even in the western countries that a lot of this discussion happens in to my knowledge, people eat very bug-like creatures all the time as long as those creatures live underwater. Shrimp for instance.

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        Most people don’t even know his name. But yeah, 2030 is approaching fast, gotta get the world ready for fascism and servitude.

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          I’m gonna lob you a softball. Don’t miss it. Both parties in the US suck, but one is openly courting fascists. Which is it?