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and the film is also a giant commercial for eugenics which trump seems to be in favor off too.
Recognizing a trend versus being a proponent of the most horrible to approach it is an Idiocracy level leap in logic.
Also, President Camacho was supposed to be a caricature of how bad it could get, not an actually better choice.
Only the first 4 minutes, which is necessary to set up the remaining 80 minutes.
This image should also mention their drinking habits. On the left, only drinks Brawndo.
On the right, drinks only 12 cans of diet coke per day.
Honestly, Idiocracy might be the good ending to America. Not only was camacho objectively better than Trump at his job, but the underlying logic of most of the setting was strong too. Increased child protections? That's good! Even if i don't think Carl's Junior should handle that. Advanced and easy medical system? Hell yeah! Legalized sex work? You love to see it! Heck, they might have kept capitalism but at least the apparent good guy in the system took over.
We genuinely might not even reach idiocracy's level in my life time.
Not to mention the beer subscription, and corporate funded clothing.
'Baitn' Channel? C'mon!
While I agree with everything else, calling Idiocracy's healthcare system advanced might be a stretch lol
Fuck
Idiocracy went from funny because it’s so unbelievable. To unfunny because it’s too real. But now it’s starting to get unbelievable again as it portrays a future that’s too good to be true.
Will that make it funny again?
I don't know how to tell you, but it was always very believable.
Like everything apart from them choosing the smartest guy in the room was very spot on.
the only problem with it was the weird eugenicsy angle it had. You don't need to "breed dumber people" if you just brainwash all but the top .01%.
I don't remember any 'breeding', wasn't it just that smart people refused to have any children?
And now that I think about it, the biggest problem with idiocracy is that they survived that far into the future... cause we don't have that long as a society ahead of us.
I suppose I was naive in my youth.
Who in the right mind spell paid like that? 💀
Thanks to you I learned something:
Payed is a rare word that's only used in nautical/maritime contexts. It can be used to refer to the act of coating parts of a boat with waterproof material or to the act of letting out a rope or chain by slackening it.
It's copy pasted from google 🤮, but I verified it.
Also:
- He changed his mind in light of new evidence
- He gave credit where credit was due (when the world was saved)
Yeah he let Brawndo go out of business.. I feel like in our current reality there'd be some bailout, and we'd keep on having crop failures
- He recognized there was a problem and sought out experts that could solve it
- He listened to the experts, even though he didn't like what they were saying
No kidding. Camacho saw the problems and wanted to solve them.
Say what you will about Trump's implementations, but solving illegal immigration has been acknowledged as an important goal on both sides of the aisle for decades.
He hasn't shied from the challenge, and for better or worse he's certainly not lacking in earnestness.
Nope. He did shy from the challenge. "Build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" is not a serious attempt to deal with a structural socioeconomic issue.
That isn't earnestness it's lazy thinking. Might as well just pour Brawndo on it.
Just allow everyone in so it's not illegal anymore. Problem solved.
American citizenship is not a universal Human Right. At least that's what most Americans believe.
As long as the country purports to be democratic, their views ought to be respected, however fringe they may seem by some standards.
Views that include believing people who are different from you aren't people at all should never be respected, for any reason, ever.
borders are dehumanizing
Could you expand on this?
It's impossible for me to expand on thoughts that came from your head and not mine, so since I didn't say that you'll have to try again.
How do you equate the view that
Some people are American citizens and some people are not. American citizens decide who becomes an American citizen. People who "break into" America without permission will be removed from America.
with
American citizens believe that non-American citizens are not people
?
I've yet to encounter someone who is against illegal immigration that isn't also majorly racist.
But on what basis do people support illegal immigration?
Sure, the average Mexican citizen would probably live a better life as an American citizen, but so too would the average American citizen live a far better life as a Swiss or Monegasque citizen. Do all Americans have the right to move to Switzerland and enjoy the privileges of citizenship?
Should NGOs be flying Americans to Monaco and putting them up in the Hotel de Paris? Where does it end?
Far better to bloom where you're planted, in my humble opinion.
On the basis that it shouldn't be illegal in the first place. Borders don't need to exist. Borders should not exist. People should be free to come and go and work and play anywhere they want, anywhere on the planet.
Far better to bloom where you're planted, in my humble opinion.
Easy to think that when you come from a place that has a pretty high quality of living. I seriously doubt you'd have that opinion if you were from some place like Somalia or even Mexico.
People should be free to come and go and work and play anywhere they want, anywhere on the planet.
So, for example in a neighborhood, everyone is free to live in whichever house they please, with no obligations for maintenance or utilities (i.e. the duties and responsibilities of citizenship). How would that work out?
First, naturally, people would head to the nicest house on the block. Eventually, it would get too full and too dilapidated so people would move to the next nicest house, and so on until the "niceness" of each house reaches an equilibrium point where there is no longer incentive to move because the next house is just as nice (or not) as the one you're living in.
Should anyone try to "fix up" a house and succeed, theirs will become the nicest house on the block, attracting everyone to move in. Very quickly, their effort will be negated and everyone will move back out since it isn't nice anymore.
The only stable equilibrium for this system is one in which all houses are equally miserable, and getting even worse. That's why houses have locks, and that's why countries have borders.
What about the EU, where most countries have open borders? I dont see romanians all go to Belgium, Germany, France, where life is so much better. Last time i checked, Hungary still has a population and its even bigger than Norway
This assumes everyone would do things in their own short time self interest and ignores a lot of factors
First off, shitty analogy for equating paying taxes.
Second, if everyone is treated like a citizen no matter how they come to live in a place, then why wouldn't they pay taxes the same way I and most everyone else does; by having it automatically deducted from our pay before we even get the check? The only reason illegal immigrants don't contribute this way is because the system prevents it. And the system only prevents it so that racists have an excuse as to why certain groups of people should be excluded from things without straight up saying it's because they don't want to see people that aren't carbon copies of themselves.
Historically, it was open borders - as long as you had the correct skin color.
Ellis Island didn’t send anyone away - unless they had like TB or something.
In the 50’s - many Mexican Americans who were legally citizens were deported in “Operation Wetback.” Based on skin color/appearance - which matches with the reports of what ICE is doing now harassing Native Americans.
It’s never been about following rules, it’s always been about being the right kind of person
They did a President Lex Luthor arc in the Superman comic books.
Lex Luthor turned his businesses over to a blind trust, hired great people from all walks of life, including an actual teacher to head the Dept. of Education, and treated people with respect and courtesy.
Paid*
Hey, you don't know all the details of the deal. Maybe he gave her a lot of rope.
This meme made my day and gave me a good chuckle. Thank you.
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