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Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Post by LatencyKills »

froggiemeow wrote: post #38

This is just silly to portray idiocracy as a prediction of the future. Yes the current president of America is a movie actor, this was not idiocracy predicting the future, Ronald Reagan was a movie actor president before idiocracy came out. The movie satirised what was already happening, there is nothing special about nowadays.

> there is nothing special about nowadays.

Nothing special? A sitting US President posted the following on Easter Sunday.

> Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

There was a point in time when Trump would have been instantly impeached or sent to a hospital for observation for making that post. Today? It will fall out of the news cycle the next time he says something insane.

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Post by bpavuk »

roysting wrote: post #21

Man, that font used for the individual attribute evaluation percentage badge is horrible. I’m guessing based on the color coding that what could also be a slanted and italicized 1 is actually slanted and italicized 7, but talk about a horrible font, on top of what looks like about 10 different other fonts used on the site. I guess that is in keeping with the theme; the Idiocracy status tracking site is also Idiocracy…

so, I'm not the only one who was scrolling it and thinking, "damn, it's so horrible and illegible, it must be on-brand with the topic." I even thought that the Dark Reader extension messed things up yet again.

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Post by [deleted] »

ModernMech wrote: post #26
Juliate wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because he was stupid, and not evil.

I think that’s where Idiocracy goes wrong; stupidity is indistinguishable from evil when deployed at scale. Living through 2026 I find the distinction meaningless -- Hanlon's razor needs refinement.

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Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Post by mrweasel »

yen223 wrote: post #9

"A character is literally named 'Upgraydd' with creative spelling. In the future, names have become increasingly absurd — just random syllables, product names, and numbers." Upgraydd was from our time wasn't he

There's a scene where Rita, in the future, tries to call Upgraydd, but there are 9726 listings for people called Upgraydd at that point.

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Post by rickdeckard »

bayindirh wrote: post #15
rkomorn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would he water plants with Coke? Coke doesn't have electrolytes, and that's what plants crave.

It's a liquid. It's fine. Plus it's colored, so it must be more than water. Water is transparent. What can it contain? d'uh .

But does it have e-lec-tro-lytes? That's what plants crave, you know.

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Post by [deleted] »

blamestross wrote: post #23

Every time Idiocracy comes up, I feel obligated to point out that it is WILDLY optimistic. The people are dumb, not evil. They struggle to adapt and learn, but are willing to try and willing to accept new information with evidence. We are not so lucky in reality.

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Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Post by jMyles »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #37
jMyles wrote: post #24

I hear people make this comparison all the time, and while it is facially a bit funny I guess, I really don't think it holds up in any serious way. What is so similar about our world to that of idiocracy? In almost all the ways that matter, it seems like we are going in the opposite direction. * The primary plot point of idiocracy is that poor (and thus, stupid - the film never explains why this correlation exists in…

> What is so similar about our world to that of idiocracy? In almost all the ways that matter, it seems like we are going in the opposite direction. The opposite direction?

Yes, the opposite direction. I pointed out two examples, but I think you can watch the film front to back and find them in every scene. The doctor, lawyer, judge, the storyline about the plants/electrolytes (which has a big opportunity to point to greed and factory farming and utterly whiffs), the Brawndo/unemployment subplot, the intensity of public interest in civic affairs - literally every major plot point runs in the opposite direction of today's realities.

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Post by prerok »

clejack wrote: post #22

I watched this movie really late. Let's say within the past 2 years or so. After watching it, all I could think was, "This isn't a comedy, it's a tragedy." It felt way too close to home.

Yeah, same. I also felt like this when watching Office Space and Sillicon Valley. Hits too close to home.

I know that through comedy you are supposed to get a sense of catharsis and a sort of relief, but to me it was just frustratingly sad.

I guess I just take life too seriously.

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