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This movie is eerily accurate despite being scathing satire. There’s more than a hint of truth in it. More like a mountain.

Nah a lot worse. President Camacho was a good dude who had his peoples best interests at heart.

Not even!!!!! Nobody ever imagined such a horrible scenario

And it came out in 1933.

Something about history rhyming and all that.

It may seem like a meme, but Idiocracy did actually nail it. Dumb and aggressive with no attention span.

If they were intelligent, we wouldn't even figure out they're villains

Honestly, its always been anti-intellectualism. Sure not all smart people are good people, but in general empathy is a sign of intelligence, while malice and stupidity go hand in hand.

Edit: There's also the fact that the smart tropey villains also often happen to be wealthy, and as we all know being wealthy means someone is smart/s

I kind of thought this was the joke. Many many dystopian plots are about governments ran by corporations and filled with foreign spies.

Oh man Transmetropolitan, Judge Dredd, and some other deeply satirical stories like Harrison Bergeron have ended up being closer to reality than even the best attempts at dystopia: Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 (though its critique of what is essentially social media is on point), Minority Report (let's see how AI in law enforcement goes...), Handmaid's Tale...

I save a special spot for 1984 because our technology is spying on us, our governments and billionaires are using the media to manufacture consent, and the lies and danger around us make us not trust each other. 1984 did get pretty close, but 1984 was made with the assumption that our elites are competent and willing to work together and that does not seem to be the case actually. That's our one saving grace and we need to act on it as soon as possible.

My God, how I miss Warren Ellis.

Neither the Beast nor the Smiler are ignorant, conspiracy theorists, or foreign assets though (grifters and sex criminals, most definitely, I'll give you that, especially the Smiler, but most of the City's population seems to fit in those categories too, so in that sense they do represent their electorate).

They're both quite competent and intelligent psychopaths.

Now, if we're talking about the Republican Party Reservation and its associated TV show, or the vat-grown VP...

THIS. Where is the Transmetropolitan streaming series? The time has never been more right.

On behalf of all the Welsh people I know would you have a problem with “cac” rather than the Dutch based (?) “kak” in this word?

Stultiocracy works too