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Not quite sure "Ow My Balls / Jackass" argument should count, the Jackass franchise is older than Idiocracy and was most likely an inspiration for that bit.
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It breaks my heart when I hear people outraged about Onion stories, not because that they fall for them, but because they know they have a hard time telling truth from fiction.
I’m honestly not sure whether I believe these comments, or understand how to put them in context. Not for the first time I’m aware I do live in a cultural bubble, but: it’s hard for me to image anyone getting outraged by an Onion story (other than a religious right person stumbling across the “Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?” piece, or something like that). Similarly, hard to imagine someone identi…
I think in some ways we are past it; unfortunately not the funny ways. Some examples: 1. The presidents response to bombing of school girls was basically "stop hitting yourself" 2. Fox news host Dept. of Defense head and the "Dept. of War" name "change" 3. Building a grand ballroom while taking benefits away from hungry kids 4. Elon musk on stage with the chainsaw bragging about acts that save no money but did harm t…
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 b…
Not quite sure "Ow My Balls / Jackass" argument should count, the Jackass franchise is older than Idiocracy and was most likely an inspiration for that bit.
People still enjoy quality, even for entertainment.
Sure, teenagers will rot their brain, but the most watched shows in the US are The Bridgerton, The Night Agent, and The Pitt - not exactly jackass.
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There is no eugenics angle in Idiocracy. Nobody tries to achieve some "genetic ideal" by manipulating people.
The premise of the movie is that smart people stop having kids and dumb people have lots. It's "reverse eugenics"
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You can do that yourself. Turn off mass media. I’ve done that almost entirely. The answer is to be your own survivorship bias. Go dig and find good stuff.
That's fine, if we only care about ourselves. I guess the harder part is convincing everyone else to unplug from mass media and not raise their kids on it.
Also for parents the game is keeping kids away from it, which is time consuming, and parents are often overworked and don’t have that time.
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I guess that explains the lack of promotion around this film?
Yep. The studio didn't know what the hell to do with it. I'm guessing that we (those of us who have seen it despite the lack of promotion) are lucky that they didn't just can it completely, or demand it get cut to ribbons and reformed as something else.
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What is so special about tweets as though we don't have copious other writings to reference?
I cant reply to jacquesm for some reason, cap on reply chain length maybe? anyway >There are multiple years of archives of presidential tweets and Trump's stand out, and not in a good way. When I refer to modern times I mean multiple dozens of years, not mere "multiple years", I already stated these times are unusually sane by historical standards.
Haha, so funny. Best joke ever.