• @CascadianGiraffe
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    661 month ago

    Idiocracy

    You would get sued by FOX ‘News’ for copying their daily programming.

    • Don Piano
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      81 month ago

      Ah, because of the pro eugenics position in the movie? I dunno, I feel like they’d like for there to be more “past good, present degeneracy” type narratives around.

      • @exanime
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        31 month ago

        Ah, because of the pro eugenics position in the movie?

        uh? I always understood the justification of getting to Idiocracy was that only dumb people kept on having kids, the issue was not that they were genetically deficient, but that they couldn’t care less about education, ethics, societal improvement, etc

        • Schadrach
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          21 month ago

          Whether it’s genetic or memetic the implication is that it’s what they’re passing down to their kids that’s the problem.

          • @exanime
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            11 month ago

            Yes but memetics is a far cry from eugenics

            • Schadrach
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              11 month ago

              However much like eugenics, it’s shockingly hard to engage in it’s memetic equivalent without genocide.

      • @CascadianGiraffe
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        -11 month ago

        Really could pick any ‘news’ outlet. I just feel like they’re the ones most likely to be overly dramatic and most likely to sue.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Out of all the answers where it looks like people decided to try to make fun of old movies this one is the original answer that we are living this reality.

      • @dejected_warp_core
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        31 month ago

        So remake it with a plot-twist: the man in the stasis pod just wakes up the next day but thinks he’s in the distant future. To set this up, maybe the pod is delivered to a different city or is mistakenly sent to a cable network studio.