this thread is proof of why conservatives always win.

i remember the crap not crap about this movie back on the old forum (i assume it’s gone now) and it turned into a whole discussion about how it was problematic due to encouraging eugenics. my guess is that the same people who wrote that felt it was problematic when that complete unknown ran over and punched Richard Spencer right in his fucking face. oh my! we musn’t do that! we must win the logic olympics!

with Office Space, Idiocracy and Silicon Valley Mike Judge could really read the tea leaves about where we were all headed. pure misery.

akosinski wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:10 pm it was problematic due to encouraging eugenics.

Yes.

akosinski wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:10 pm it was problematic when that complete unknown ran over and punched Richard Spencer right in his fucking face. oh my! we musn’t do that! we must win the logic olympics!

No.

That wasn't difficult.

losthighway wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:55 pm The George Carlin quote about "Think about how smart the average person you know is..... half of the people are dumber!".

This is called a joke. But I suppose proving a point is what your aim was.

cakes wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 7:53 pm

losthighway wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:55 pm The George Carlin quote about "Think about how smart the average person you know is..... half of the people are dumber!".

This is called a joke. But I suppose proving a point is what your aim was.

Sure. It's such a clever joke, I almost had to work my way out of believing it was funny cause it was true. Might have been my shortcoming. I guess what I'm getting at is trying to think about other people's intelligence is hard. Or at least for me it has been.

But this is the problem with Idiocracy as prophecy, not the problem with it as an absurd, low budget comedy film.

losthighway wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 8:41 pm

cakes wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 7:53 pm

losthighway wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:55 pm The George Carlin quote about "Think about how smart the average person you know is..... half of the people are dumber!".

This is called a joke. But I suppose proving a point is what your aim was.

Sure. It's such a clever joke, I almost had to work my way out of believing it was funny cause it was true. Might have been my shortcoming. I guess what I'm getting at is trying to think about other people's intelligence is hard. Or at least for me it has been.

But this is the problem with Idiocracy as prophecy, not the problem with it as an absurd, low budget comedy film.

A wrestling maniac becomes president in a time when most people are stupid or not paying attention. We're only a decade away from Buttfuckers.

Eugenicist garbage. Anyone who says "Idiocracy is a documentary" is an incredibly lazy thinker.

Crap

Original thread is still there btw: viewtopic.php?t=19636&hilit=idiocracy

I haven't gone thru it.

I've turned it off after 20 minutes or so, them jokes just weren't funny.

More than anything, I think it did predict many aspects of Trump-era politics. And the overall misinformation and propaganda being funneled through social media to an undiscerning public.

I forgot about Silicon Valley. He certainly read the tea leaves on Zuck, Sam Altman, Jack Dorsey, and our other avaricious cyber-twats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqH1N83KE9k

"everything that could go wrong, did."

"look at these horrible plastic shoes. they will never become popular."

"today it would be people staring at their phones."

i'm not going to sit through 3 hours of that.... never watched idiocracy. loved office space. intellectual elitism makes me uncomfortable. i try to avoid it.