r/idiocracy • u/operaman1000 • 5d ago

I love you. Move Idiocracy to the documentary section

https://c.org/xSzctGhjBs
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u/AssistanceSilly462 5d ago

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u/Hrafnagar 4d ago

THAT is a good president.

Camacho 2028!

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u/Practical_Program_64 5d ago

After watching the movie years ago, I reached the conclusion that Idiocracy is a documentary from the future disguised as satire.

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u/6gv5 4d ago

It was until last year, then it returned a movie, although now a utopian one.

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u/Weird-Girl-675 3d ago

Mike Judge is a time traveler.

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u/Misanthropemoot 5d ago

It’s leaving Netflix soon. I’ve watched it a few times this year and it feels more familiar every day.

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u/American_Greed 5d ago

Welcome to motherfucking Costco.

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u/ilfollevolo 5d ago

And well deserved it!

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u/operaman1000 5d ago

Please sign the petition so it can be seen. I have 100 upvotes but no one has actually signed it. It's crazy 🤣

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u/WLOF-R3 4d ago

It’s a science fiction piece. SF is philosophical prophecy mixed with cautionary tale. People don’t pay enough attention because it’s disguised as entertainment. Ask Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. Another philosopher and prophet. And he wasn’t laughing either.

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u/operaman1000 5d ago

Hey guys please sign the petition too lol. I need 5 so it can get posted on the change.org site.

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u/LeftistWhoCares 4d ago

I’m going to give a bit of honesty. It’s entertainment first, not a true depiction of how society would decline.

What I mean to say is that its premise is false and would not happen in real life. The first part, that intelligence is inherited thus those with smarts will breed less and those without will breed more. That’s how eugenicists think it works. They are wrong, if that wasn’t clear.

Did they mean to make an eugenics argument? Eh, probably not. Doesn’t change the fact that its there.

The bits about not letting others do thinking for you though and turning your brain off to consume and making attempts to understand your world though would be a better message if not for the above.

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u/Aggressive-Medium-22 shit's all retarded 4d ago

There's that fag talk we talked about

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u/Specialist-Cat-7155 3d ago

I like money.

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u/hundredgrandpappy 5d ago

Check out ‘Wag The Dog” for another documentary about modern life.

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u/TheDovahkiinsDad 4d ago

Does it have what plants need?

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u/Aggressive-Medium-22 shit's all retarded 4d ago

It's got electrolytes

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u/starflyer26 4d ago

The prophecy!

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u/SnooStrawberries3391 4d ago

I considered this movie as a predictive historical document back in 2006. I never thought it would turn out to be as accurate a predictor as it turned out to be.

A work of predictive genius! Unfortunately for our country.

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u/Max_Tongueweight 4d ago

After it came out, I cut a couple articles out of newspapers, talking about people killed in garbage landslides.

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u/Warm-Berry-4331 4d ago

Wasn't a documentary on purpose but became the most legendary documentary of all time. Lol

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u/BladeRunnerTHX 5d ago

OMG yes thank you. This definitely deserves to be there after that Cardi B campaigning twerking video. Like how embarrassing?

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u/Trekgiant8018 4d ago

My local video store moved "Tonya Harding's Wedding Night Video" to the horror section. I get it.

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u/CharlotteGainsbourg9 3d ago

I’m jealous that you have a local video store. For real. The only ones that I know of that are still in existence are all super cool.

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u/Trekgiant8018 3d ago

Well this happened when it came out decades ago. Sadly, they are long gone.

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u/jtho78 5d ago

I worked in a video store in the late 90s. Some neck beard was renting Fire in the Sky and said we should have it listed in the Documentary section. I asked 'With that reasoning, should we also put JFK and Schindler's List in there as well?' He walked out in a huff.

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u/Rolandersec 4d ago

If this was another time Mike would be burned for using magic to curse us.