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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours ago

‘Idiocracy’ Predicted All of This

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‘Idiocracy’ Predicted All of This

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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours ago
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‘Idiocracy’ Predicted All of This
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Twenty years later, Mike Judge’s prescient comedy is getting harder to laugh at.
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    But I’d rather be living in the world of Idiocracy.

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      In that world they listened to the smart person and did what he said eventually, even though it was inconvenient for them. So they’re kind of doing better than us in that way.

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      President Camacho put the smartest person he could find in charge! Utopia compared to what’s going on in the USA now.

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        Exactly.

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      “Ow my balls” isn’t a downgrade in tv entertainment these days.

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      Reading this in a Starbucks is not lost on me.

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        I trust your are enjoying a “gentleman’s latte”?

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