• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How is this not the Idiocracy timeline? I’d anything it feels like the pace of the “dumbing down” is too fast.

    • scarabic@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      The president in Idiocracy sought the help of someone smart.

      Y’all need to remember that and realize we are way past this movie.

      • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        He could also form coherent sentences, was in Terry Crews-shape, and didn’t shit himself once. We’re already well into Idiocracy 2: Electric Boogaloo territory.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah, there weren’t leagues of malevolent rich assholes seeking to make the world worse for their own profits. Just a bunch of idiots who apparently forgot how to think.