pizzazz,

Are the people making you deppthroat bugs in the room with us right now?

Agent641,

No we aren’t

ShooBoo,

They saw the movie Snowpiercer and now the future of humanity is eating bugs. And it very well could be. People have been eating bugs since, forever. Roaches will probably be around after many food sources are gone and we will eat them. You can bet on it.

Many cultures eat bugs for protein. The fact that this all becomes some kind of conspiracy thing just shows how stupid and gullible people have become.

bentropy,

Okay but why don’t you want to eat bugs? Proteins are proteins you know.

captainlezbian,

If you’re railing against being made to eat bugs yeah you’re a conspiracy theorist. They’re a perfectly fine meat replacement, though I’ll stick with beans like I think most people will want to

ShooBoo,

We would all be just a little better off as a whole if we ate some beans instead of a steak more often than not.

captainlezbian,

Yeah that’s why I’ve not eaten land meat for over a year (I occasionally indulge in sustainable fish). I think one major barrier to people is they don’t get how fucking cheap and lazy you can be with meatless meals. And it’s not like I don’t miss meat but physically I’m in great shape, I’m healthy, I eat lazily, and my food is very good. Not much cooking is easier than throwing a can of beans into some water with taco seasoning, reducing it, and slapping it in a tortilla with your toppings of choice.

zakobjoa,
@zakobjoa@lemmy.world avatar

Besides no one forces anyone to eat bugs nor is it any sane persons agenda.

ShooBoo,

Sanity is not playing in to mainstream discourse anymore. The loonies are out and have been empowered. Best we can do is try to get them back on their meds and professional help.

OhStopYellingAtMe,
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world avatar

Just because the CIA does bad things doesn’t mean every bad thing is the fault of the CIA.

captainlezbian,

Yeah if you’re dosed with LSD or your democratically elected left wing government gets couped, check if the cia did it. If a bunch of capitalists are trying to figure out how to get people to eat more sustainable protein and think bugs are the answer, idk doesn’t sound very cia. Not enough drugs or anti communism

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

My brother uses the history of the CIA to justify his support of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. If that doesn’t really make any sense to you, it doesn’t to me either.

gonzo0815,

“The CIA did some shit in the 80s, so it’s totally legit to claim vaccines make your dick fall off”

radioactiveradio,

Uhhh…does it really?

gonzo0815,

?

radioactiveradio,

Pp flies off to the BG music of “i believe I can fly”

evilthecat13,
@evilthecat13@lemmy.world avatar

🙄

Hnazant,

Spelled “wealthy people” wrong.

idusces,

Just so we’re on the same page,

Listen to: This right wing conspiracy theory about eating bugs is about as racist as you think - one.npr.org/i/1188237695:1188465933

hemko,

I’m not gonna click that link but who in their right mind connects refusal of eating bugs with racism?

felixwhynot,
@felixwhynot@lemmy.world avatar

Why not just click it?

ImFresh3x,

This is not true at all. It’s the opposite. The mainstream completely accepts the the cia does awful shit. At reports or like there’s no surprise. This guy gets all his cia did awful shit news from the media, and imagines he did the groundbreaking investigation himself. Haha.

MasterBlaster,

I ser by some of the comments here that the some of the reddit trolls found Lemmy.

That was too quick for my comfort.

SocializedHermit,

Don’t worry, we don’t have long enough left to institute an insect food delivery system of any note. Pretty soon the bugs will be eating us.

Feirdro,

You’re so pessimistic. most of the remainder of humanity will be agrarian communities again within 50 years. I think it will take longer for the ocean to die. So we likely have a whole hundred years left!

SocializedHermit,

You’re unrealistically optimistic. The earth will cook us off the face of the planet along with 90% of species. It’s starting now and will take a few years to really get moving.

Feirdro,

I mean, I’d find it fast too if it was my well-paid job.

MasterBlaster,

Yeah, professional disinformation disseminators are relentless. A takedown of certain nationstates will be required to stop them.

Feirdro,

yes, and I’m sure we’ll have time to do that when our food supply chain starts to collapse in the next two years. /s

Edit: sarcasm translation—when the earth goes up in flames in a few years, we won’t have resources to enforce the Pax Americana anymore.

lugal,

How is the CIA connected to eating bugs???

TimeSquirrel,
TimeSquirrel avatar

Can we keep the boomer Facebook bullshit out of here?

ghariksforge,

I like it

MisterMoo,
MisterMoo avatar

If a meme is a screenshot of another website, I’ve badly misunderstood the word.

Zoldyck,

Nobody if forcing anybody to eat bugs. That’s bullshit.

Zagorath,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

I mean we still don’t even know the full extent of what they did through the previous century. There are a couple of very noteworthy acknowledged coup or assassination attempts (and successes), but how many others are there? You’ll still often get labelled a conspiracy theorist for talking about some of the other cases.

I don’t know how many potential examples there are, but my standout example is Australia. Australia’s 1975 constitutional crisis was set off by a Governor General who had been a member of a secretly-CIA-funded organisation, and the US had just recently sent someone known as “the coupmaster” (for his involvement in other coups) to Australia as their ambassador. A CIA contractor of the time says that the GG had been described within the CIA as “our man”. And there was motive, in the form of the relatively leftist nature of the Australian Government at the time, and their threats to shut down the Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap, a jointly-operated CIA/ASIO spy centre. Australian politics has heaved towards the neoliberal in the time since the alleged coup.

But it has never been formally acknowledged, and it’s still only based on circumstantial evidence. Depending on who you’re talking to, professing to believe there was CIA involvement will get you labelled a conspiracy theorist. I suspect there are probably other countries with similar stories.

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