• Soulphite@reddthat.com
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        Camacho definitely understood there was a problem, sought after someone much smarter to help solve it. Can’t say any politician today would be humbled to do something like that.

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      I’d honestly prefer that scenario to our current one. At least they were just stupid and not cartoonishly evil.

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        It’s been said many times, but to say it a different way: the government and Camacho in Idiocracy were much much better, since they immediately elevated the smartest person they could find to a cabinet-level post and accepted help rather than just lied about the problem.

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      Don’t Look Up is more fitting as a documentary of our times. In lots of ways.

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        Fucking infuriating movie. Not because it’s bad, but because it is so fucking spot on about every single political issue in USA (and to a lesser extend, but still fitting, the rest of the world). I know it’s a metaphor for climate change, but every single political issue in USA is dealt with just as moronically as climate change.

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          Yeah, I mean it was most overtly a commentary on climate change, but to a great extent it really was about the problems with current politics.

          I’m right there with you, it was infuriating, and absolutely right, and great, so now what do I do?