• Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    The president in idiocracy is a better president than the current president of american idiocracy.

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      President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is an American treasure. Have the respect to say his name!

      (/s obv)

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        It’s only because Don’t Look Up has supplanted it for a more accurate picture of how we’re going to end up.

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          You wish, like the family wealth of the Simpsons, Idiocracy showed a potential future that now seems pretty good.

          Welcome to Costco, I love you.

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            I regret that you you are right. Nothing’s been the same since Harambe.

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      This is the comment I came here to make! The biggest difference between us and Idiocracy is that they listened and let the smart person take control in the movie. There’s no hope of that now.

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        They were pretty much ready to execute that smart guy because the water didn’t immediately grow massive crops. Had the others got distracted just a few minutes longer before broadcasting the growth live it may have been too late.

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    We are in Idiocracy if it was a psychological horror.

    There’s no fun Starbucks handjobs or Costco law school, just fascists sucking each other off while destroying the world.

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      There may not be a Costco law school… But there is a Trump University!..oh, oh wait, nevermind.

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    Truth and sanity to American History?

    Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

    Orwell, 1984

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    If only it would have stayed true to the timeline of the film and happened in 2505 instead of 2025.

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      President Camacho went out of his way to get the smartest guy he could and provide whatever resources were necessary to solve the problem. Now that’s leadership.

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      Honestly it feels almost dangerous to call the people in the bottom photo idiots. They know exactly what they’re fucking doing and the cruelty and power are the entire fucking point. This is why Idiocracy can’t actually happen, if the entire population’s intelligence suffered that much we would all be dead long before we got to the world of the film. These people are evil tyrants who are systematically and ruthlessly destroying the fabric of our government and country, not hapless buffoons with good intentions.

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    Kid rock wishes. President Camacho actually looks kinda cool. Kid rock looks like a pathetic little piss ant.

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    Tell me you haven’t watched or really understood Idiocracy without telling me you haven’t watched or really understood Idiocracy.

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    The guy on the right has his facial hair cut like he’s wearing a covid mask wrong (in chin protection mode)

    I did a double take