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Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks
(www.independent.co.uk)
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No one understands that fucking movie, and all think they're the main character
Idk can we stop with the idiocracy posting? I get the film; I don't think I'm the main character, I think the plot is eugenicist and that while uneducated people put Trump back in office, stupidity is not genetic.
Do they actually say that its about genetics? Been a while since I watched the movie but in real life children of uneducated parents tend to remain uneducated (which is of course a major flaw in the current education and social system), not to mention the massive efforts of current US leadership to keep people uneducated in general. I could see the premise of the movie playing out without the assumption of intelligence being a genetic feature.
I mean the movie was fun in its time, and has a good critique of societal trends from the mid 2000's, but yes. Literally in the beginning of the movie, after they freeze the mc, the narrator explains that society became a shithole because while intelligent people waited until their 30s to have maybe 1 kid, stupid people had so many kids that they just bred intelligence out of the gene pool. Even at the end the narrator explains that nothing really changes, because while the mc and romantic lead go off to raise 2 intelligent kids, the stupid sidekick went off to have 32. Sure, it was more a plot device than an actual moral stance, but it is also a deracialized form of literally THE core belief of the eugenics movement.
Yes, Terry Crews, funny guy, good joke, it maps onto the Trump admin decently if you squint. It's a funny satire, but it's also 20 years old. People were Idiocracy-posting on MySpace during the Bush admin when the movie came out. And considering the basis for Maga is also purging the undesirables, maybe resting on the laurels of a movie whose plot is based on there being immutable, undesirable genetic characteristics is a bad idea, or at least in poor taste.
Yes I remember the beginning, just wasnt sure if it was explicitly said that its the gene pool that caused the change. Imo you could make the same movie and leave out that 'fact', it would still work. Uneducated parts of the population having disproportionally more kids could lead to that outcome given the current circumstances. As it is, there is a huge correlation between family income and level of education, but there is no causality, which disproves the genetic part.
I mean, not really? Uneducated parts of the population having disproportionate amounts of children wouldn't impact intelligence at all, like bro go back far enough and all of our ancestors were uneducated. Like it wasn't that long ago that 100% of parents and 100% of children thought if you pissed on a certain tree you'd get struck by lightning.
Idk. Honestly I get why they did it; I'm wracking my brain and the only reasonable explanation I can think of would be smartphones, which didn't exist when the movie was written. You don't know what you don't know, you know? Like I said it's still a good movie, like it's still funny and captures a fair bit of seeming trends, it just also sets itself up as a wet dream for people who think other people don't deserve the right to have children, which is a pretty core belief of the people we're trying to mock.
Bruh the literal plot point was that uneducated people had so many kids they drowned out the gene pool. Can't believe you think you understand the movie but haven't seen the first 5 minutes.