Idiocracy is about what happens after the current time when smarter more level headed people are trying to put the pieces back together. We are in the prequel era, things are going to get worse before they get better.
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db2@lemmy.world 23 hours agoand a failed system abdicating using any thought
So the whole government at this point. Idiocracy was supposed to be funny fiction not depressing reality.
Why did it take 5 months to even interview her? What the fuck it’s happening in US jails.
Money and profits in that order.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
grue@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
For the umpteenth fucking time, this is not “Idiocracy!”
In Idiocracy, the people were stupid, but honest. This is not that. This is malicious, which is worse.
db2@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Give us a better correlation then.
grue@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I suddenly realize you may have thought I was criticizing you, individually. Just so you know, that’s not what I intended: I meant it as a general reaction to seeing that comparison made over and over again, and your instance of it just happened to be the one I attached it to.
Sorry about that.
db2@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That was what I read it as, no worries. I really can’t think of a better correlation like that movie though. The stupid people part is key.