• Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

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

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      17 hours ago

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

      (/s obv)

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        5 hours ago

        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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          6 hours ago

          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.

          • 667@lemmy.radio
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            5 hours ago

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

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    17 hours ago

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

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    18 hours ago

    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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      1 day ago

      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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      24 hours ago

      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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    22 hours ago

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

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    21 hours ago

    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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      17 hours ago

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

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      1 day ago

      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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        23 hours ago

        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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    1 day ago

    I’ve been saying for years that Mike Judge is the modern Nostradamus. The dude has called everything from dumb teenagers, to American work culture, to misinformed redneck culture, to Trumpism. Now he’s tackling big pharma and government sponsored terrorism and ecoterrorism with Common Side Effects. The dude is just on top of it.

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      1 day ago

      Check out “Common side effects” on “HBO” max! Or other means. It’s a new animated series by him and it’s seriously good.

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        24 hours ago

        Man this comes across like a bot and a paid advertisement,

        Fella above you mentions it and you come in saying where to watch it and recommend it

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          17 hours ago

          Suggesting a show that I think they would like and making sure they know where to find it while also saying to pirate if they don’t want to watch it there is advertising? Loooool

          Edit: I’m like %90 sure he edited his comment after I replied because I am sure I didn’t see anything about the show when I commented lol

          • rishado@lemmy.world
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            4 hours ago

            Yeah well edits are always shown on lemmy unlike reddit so you’re definitely wrong. also for the record that commenter was absolutely correct you sounded like a corporate bot and I assumed you were one until this reply

        • NeatoBuilds@lemmy.today
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          23 hours ago

          You too could experience “HBO” ‘MAX’! with a simple monthly payment you could fit in with the crowd and attract all the things you want attracted

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          • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
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            19 hours ago

            Well I’m sold, here’s my credit card details but I’ll only sign up if you promise to make it hard to unsubscribe if I change my mind and hound me incessantly during my cancellation period

            Here’s an example of what I want

            P.S please let me know if i doxxed myself haha.

            Pretty sure cleaned it up enough

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          18 hours ago

          Pretty sure the “by other means” they mentioned is pirating and they just wanted to share a show they liked by a creator they appreciate which also exists on a specific platform. Or is that not allowed, for people to work and have their work shared.

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            17 hours ago

            Thank you for having literacy lol. Reading skills are hard for some people.

  • Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    24 hours ago

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