It’s Not Lying, It’s the Definition of Gaslighting
"You vill eat zee bugz and live in zee podz!" Believe it or not, this meme, which was spawned by numerous articles and reports detailing how the way to combat climate change is to stop people from eating animal protein and switch to bugs, was recently attacked by an NPR podcast. NPR, which has published numerous articles about bug-eating in the last decade, hosts a podcast called "Code Switch," which recently had an episode entitled, "This right-wing conspiracy theory about eating bugs is about as racist as you think." The freak-show hosts trace the origin of the "bug-eating" conspiracy to a 2019 blog post by a "white identitarian." Listed below are various NPR headlines dating back to 2008 about eating bugs.
Friends, this is a white pill. The enemy is desperate and knows their stories can be debunked in real time. For them to release something this sloppy that will only be heard by a crowd who already believes everything they say or hate-listens to them means they are throwing the proverbial shit at the wall to see what sticks. Buzzwords and terms like "conspiracy theorist" and “racist" shouldn’t bother you anymore. This is pathetically hilarious. We have to be able to laugh at it.
For some reason, my very first instinct about NPR, like when I first heard of it was extreme skepticism and that it's retarded. Living in the heart of the rich and famous from DC in Alexandria and working at a popular local haunt in Del Ray, I met a lot of the who's who in politics. I sat with them, had drinks and one of the most retarded but for some reason highly regarded by locals was a NPR program director. Having been introduced to me, a massage therapist turned art model turned minister and restaurant hostess who had no idea what NPR was, I found him immediately more ignorantly left wing than the average lefty parrot or dunce. These people are retarded with hubris. You'd think it's gas lighting but I can assure you, they believe every bit of their own press. They are that unaware.
Aaahahaha, I laugh every time someone puts one of these together. Reminds me of back in the '80s and '90s with the string of televangelist scandals. Their devoted gaslit audience were out of the loop, but everyone else was laughing.
The next step here is to stop acting like these clowns have prestige or deserve any respect. We've had these rants before, but I really wish the sort of peripheral/soft-right would catch up. People like Tim Pool, Rogan and Crowder completely obliterate prog blogs like NPR and the NYT in terms of audience but still play the role of the reactionary/underdog. The vanguard of any movement is always going to be fringe and that's fine - these guys aren't "our guys", but I'm really getting tired of seeing what is effectively the mainstream at this point kowtowing to the skinsuit media.