This is running into Alex Jones territory. Look, the Americans just elected 3 conspiracy theories in a trench coat, we don’t need a CanCon knock off. Begging our media to call bullshit. - ThreadSky

tabathasouthey.bsky.social • 106 days ago

This is running into Alex Jones territory. Look, the Americans just elected 3 conspiracy theories in a trench coat, we don’t need a CanCon knock off. Begging our media to call bullshit.

Reposted from Luke LeBrun

Pierre Poilievre is running a petition opposing Justin Trudeau’s “woke agenda” to force Canadians to “eat bugs”

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anniegirl.bsky.social•106 days ago

The people who continue to insist that Poilievre isn't in danger of becoming Trump have less and less to base that assumption on, imo.

locutusof.bsky.social•106 days ago

they eat bugs all over the world. Chinese night markets are filled with people and filled with bugs roasted on sticks being eaten by the aforementioned people.

This stems from a search for non-mass murdering protein sources that don't torture feeling creatures.

The Horror. The Horror.

berlinskyjohn.bsky.social•106 days ago

It's real.

kathrynmathias.bsky.social•106 days ago

I'm still waiting for media to twig to how wrong it is, that there is frequent mis/disinfo pushed by the CPC. Unless I simply missed it, nothing was said when Poilievre accused the feds of starting Alberta's wildfires (for instance).

kathrynmathias.bsky.social•106 days ago

The lies are becoming baked in. A good example is when I heard a farmer interviewed on Calgary's CBC Eyeopener & he complained about how unfair it was to farmers that Canada was the only country with a carbon tax. Later, when they aired the interview, why not add a correction - or not air that part?

kathrynmathias.bsky.social•106 days ago

But perhaps CBC is a bad example since mostly they do an excellent job, especially their radio programs. It's just something I heard recently, so it came to mind.

joel.klebanoff.com•106 days ago

The Conservative Party of Canada can never run out of things to complain about because if they run out of real things to complain about they just make stuff up that aren’t actually things. (As a result of also following U.S. news, particularly Trump, this sounds familiar to me.)

mrmichaelelliott.bsky.social•106 days ago

I first ate bugs when Steve Harper was in office.

y2skot.bsky.social•106 days ago

If Canadian media are as lacking in self-awareness as American media, I’m mega-worried.

midwifek.bsky.social•106 days ago

This is full on Q Anon and racist as fuck to boot. Lots of cultures (as I'm sure you know) do eat insects, in part from necessity, because they are high in protein. Anyway, what's a lobster but a great big bug? Eye of the beholder.

henrikbechmann.bsky.social•106 days ago

The politics of contempt, in the extreme.

doft.bsky.social•106 days ago

Next they'll be forcing us to eat lobsters and crabs and shrimp!!! And then they'll force us to drink coffee because all coffee has ground up bugs in it!!! Aaaahhhh. And then what next? cows? pigs? chickens? horses? dogs? cats? Where will it end?

doft.bsky.social•106 days ago

But they'll eat shit?

brewsd.bsky.social•105 days ago

This is a political stunt like “they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats”. This is to evade criticism on real issues and their hollow policies. It’s courting the crowd that thrives on sensationalism. Maybe ignoring it is better than giving it wings.

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