• Don Piano@feddit.org
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      2 months 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@lemmy.world
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        2 months 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@lemmy.sdf.org
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          2 months 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.

      • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world
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        2 months 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.

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      2 months 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@lemmy.world
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        2 months 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.