Monday, January 30, 2023

The Important Thing Is Argle, Bargle, Gargle.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I'm on the lamb but I ain't no sheep.

Every internet controversy eventually makes it way to DbD, nine times out of ten in a strange, garbled form well after the matter is finished.

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  1. Okay, fill me in. What is this even referring to? All of this is incomprehensible jibberish to me.

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    1. The intermittent 'bug protein' idea that circulates in some quarters, which some members of the Right like to get very offended by.

      Obviously, most of it is gibberish.

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    2. Once in a while, you will see a report on the news about how insects may become a future source of protein as climate change and food shortages get worse (and there are parts of the world where insects are already a part of the diet). In right-wing conspiracy nut world, this always somehow turns into the Commie Elites planning to force everyone to eat bugs. Because in right-wing conspiracy nut world, everything eventually turns into this...

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    3. Right. Some people do push and support this idea, but again for the Online Right this is not 'hobbyhorse for a few odd futurists,' it is 'plot to sap and impurify our bodily fluids.'

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