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Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Idiocraty is not satire anymore
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. President Camacho was not smart, but he was well meaning. As soon as he knew there was someone smart enough to fix their problems he put them on task and worked to improve people’s lives.
There’s nothing well meaning from the current administration and anything good that possibly comes of it is happenstance. The current administration is not idiocracy, it’s a kleptocratic authoritarian nightmare.
Plus, as far as we know President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was not a rapist, of adults or children which is another thing he has over Donald.
I'd argue that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is smarter than Trump.
If anything, it's gone from dystopian to utopian compared to reality..
Well in idiocracy they were dumb but well meaning, these people are just evil
Always been real and always will ..
No one understands that fucking movie, and all think they're the main character
Idk can we stop with the idiocracy posting? I get the film; I don't think I'm the main character, I think the plot is eugenicist and that while uneducated people put Trump back in office, stupidity is not genetic.
Do they actually say that its about genetics? Been a while since I watched the movie but in real life children of uneducated parents tend to remain uneducated (which is of course a major flaw in the current education and social system), not to mention the massive efforts of current US leadership to keep people uneducated in general. I could see the premise of the movie playing out without the assumption of intelligence being a genetic feature.
Yes I remember the beginning, just wasnt sure if it was explicitly said that its the gene pool that caused the change. Imo you could make the same movie and leave out that 'fact', it would still work. Uneducated parts of the population having disproportionally more kids could lead to that outcome given the current circumstances. As it is, there is a huge correlation between family income and level of education, but there is no causality, which disproves the genetic part.