• whodatdair@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, this is the sort of shit tucker carlson and alex jones spread - the elite globalists (which totally isn’t an antisemitic dog whistle, trust us) are gonna make the poors eat bugs, better be scared and on our side cuz we’re against the people who want you to eat bugs

    They take articles where researchers talk about how easy it is to farm bugs for protein (which is then heavily processed) which could help with global food supplies. They take the news that people are exploring it and twist it into fear mongering bullshit as if we’re going to be forced to eat bowls of crickets with a spoon. Idiotic.

    Don’t get me wrong, the inequality gap is growing at an alarming rate but spreading far right memes does not help. Want to stick it to the rich? Fucking unionize.

    To bring it full circle, the title about Pullman is a great thread to pull - look into the history of the pullman riot and the town of Pullman, Chicago. Literally the story of why we have Labor Day as a National holiday in the USA. People literally fucking died over unionization because the elite fear it so much.

    But no, be scared cuz they’re coming to replace your lunch with bbq crickets.

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      1 year ago

      I think the point isn’t the concern of being somehow being forced to eat bugs, but rather how big problems that need big systemic changes are reduced to being issues of the single individual. “Want to do something about the environment? Recycle!, and don’t mind our factories continuing to poison the air and oceans. And if things don’t improve it’s because it’s your fault an you need to try harder.”