Nobody is trying to make you eat bugs lmao keep this right wing bullshit away

I'm happy to eat bugs. Lobsters are basically bugs.

Don't conflate the ecologically sustainable practice of bug-eating with American fascist secret service bullshit.

Can we keep the boomer Facebook bullshit out of here?

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?

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

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

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 - https://one.npr.org/i/1188237695:1188465933

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

That was too quick for my comfort.

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.

How is the CIA connected to eating bugs???

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

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

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

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.

Spelled "wealthy people" wrong.

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.