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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Alpha Mare on March 01, 2010, 12:27:13 PM
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indy legend (151 posts) Mon Mar-01-10 05:53 PM
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I just watched the movie Idiocracy on Comedy Central
I know it's just a silly movie but I thought it was so incredibly spot on as to the world we can look forward to in a few more decades of republican rule and corporate control. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. While it's stupidity will make you laugh it should also scare the hell out of you as to how accurate it describes a world led by the tea baggin fools of today and the future they long for.
Taitertots (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-01-10 06:07 PM
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8. I just think of the Duggars when I see it
The stupidest people are breeding at the fastest rate.
ChoppinBroccoli (410 posts) Mon Mar-01-10 06:11 PM
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10. As A Movie, It Was OK, But It Contained A Message.........
..............that I've been telling people for a long time. When I started spending most of my time at my local County Courthouse, I noticed a phenomenon. Namely, that the intelligent, reasonable people had 1 or 2 children and stopped (or couldn't have children at all), while the ignorant, unwashed masses always reproduced at alarming rates. It was literally EVERY DAY that I would see some big, fat WT housewife roll herself out of the passenger door of a pickup truck with about 3 different child-conveyance devices and about 5 other older kids who walked behind her with dazed expressions on their faces.
This movie finally put that idea out there for public consumption. The intelligent, reasonable (i.e. liberal) people reproduced in an intelligent, reasonable way. Meanwhile, the ignorant mouth-breathers pump out kids like it's a contest with no thought to whether or not they can afford them (financially OR emotionally), without much caring who raises them (they usually have WT boyfriends who enter and exit their lives about as often as a roll of toilet paper), and really only getting by on government assistance. But that doesn't stop them from turning right around and teaching their "Dirty Dozen" hillbilly spawn that the government is bad and liberals are evil. And that pattern is now established. So when this generation dies off, the intelligent and the reasonable are now outnumbered 10-to-1. And it gets worse with each passing generation.
Quite frankly, we're being outbred. And the ugly truth of the matter is that WHENEVER you appeal to the ignorant, you'll win every popularity contest by a landslide. I have another theory that surmizes that roughly 90% of the American population is so willfully stupid that I don't know how they find their way home at night (which probably also explains why GPS has gotten so popular).
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."--Stephen Colbert...................................."Grab a mop."--President Barack Obama
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-01-10 06:15 PM
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11. It's a movie filled with ironies.
1. It's a pretty stupid movie.
2. Because it's a pretty stupid movie, it mocks its own audience.
3. One has to dumb oneself down in order to enjoy it.
4. The plot involved eugenics, making itself particularly dumb.
5. The best parts of the movie celebrate stupidity rather than mock it. :lmao: Much like DU.
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A whole bunch of projection going on there. The main thing I got from seeing the movie was that government kept the people ignorant and satisfied with having nothing but what the government provided. Which was very little.
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Well asshat, we're reproducing at a faster rate because we don't kill our children until after they're born and even then, it's just a threat!
What a ****in' DUmbass!
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More projection in that thread than a movie theater.
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Taitertots
8. I just think of the Duggars when I see it
The stupidest people are breeding at the fastest rate.
The Duggars live in a 7,000 sq. ft. home they bought and own free and clear, and they are not now, nor have they ever been, on gov't assistance. That means according to this primitive, people who are self-sufficient are stupid. Not too hard to understand why primitives are kooks now, is it?
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A whole bunch of projection going on there. The main thing I got from seeing the movie was that government kept the people ignorant and satisfied with having nothing but what the government provided. Which was very little.
Honestly the entire movie owes a huge debt to C. M. Kornbluth's SF classic, 'The Marching Morons,' and it is indeed based on society's devolution into a nanny state that takes charge of all the basic needs of the populace, which ends up breeding a progressively stupider populace as a result. I highly recommend it.
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This much stupid has to hurt.
Atman (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-01-10 07:46 PM
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26. A Bush family favorite.
GHW Bush was big into Eugenics. I think that is part of what the intentional bankrupting of the country (and first, the response to Katrina) was about; a big giant social experiment. The Bush's have wanted to do this for years.
Dysgenics, DUmmy.
tom_paine (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-01-10 07:13 PM
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16. Idiocracy's society was much more benign than What We Are Becoming
Edited on Mon Mar-01-10 07:26 PM by tom_paine
Make no mistake about that. Whether it's Far-Right Corporate Totalitarianism or Teabagging Good Old Fashioned Barbaric Totalitarianism, which are our remaining choices, it seems.
Of course, as a comedy, you couldn't have Tea Bagging Christofascist Brownshirts dragging everyone who had an independant thought or was a "liberal terrorist" off to a Relocation Camp or anything.
Too much reality is bad for comedy. Idiocracy has just enough benign unreality so that the comedy isn't impaired.
What We Are Becoming, I'm afraid will not be nearly so benign as Idiocracy, which is a damned funny comedy.
Will they drink Brawndo in the Relocation Camps?
Atman (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-01-10 07:41 PM
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25. The opening demographics sequence is frightening...and too true.
When Fox originally tried to release the movie in theaters, it ran into all sorts of problems. As with all major releases, they tested it and audiences didn't know what to think. They didn't know whether they were being mocked, or if they just didn't get it. They tried several different different advertising angles, and the movie just scared people, no matter how they presented it. I think it was largely stupid, but also very prophetic.
What they found out in the focus groups was that people thought it was about them...but if it was really about them, then they wouldn't actually "get it." It was at once brilliant and very stupid. And I loved it, just for the opening demographics scene.
:lmao: It was released in seven cities(Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, Houston , Austin); hmmm...what do these audiences have in common? :rotf:
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There is always an idiot in every group. If you can't find him. its you.
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I love how they never mention the black president in that movie.
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I love how they never mention the black president in that movie.
I wish I could remember the narrators introduction.
(http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Terry_Crews/terry_crews_as_president_camacho__2_.jpg)
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I wish I could remember the narrators introduction.
(http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Terry_Crews/terry_crews_as_president_camacho__2_.jpg)
Something like...
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, porn super-star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion
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Something like...
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, porn super-star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion
lol. Its kind of sad someone would remember it.
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lol. Its kind of sad someone would remember it.
Took some google fu to find it.
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The House of Representin'. I liked the Jumbotron in the House chamber. :-)
I'm sad to see Luke Wilson doing phone commercials while his idiot brother is still making movies. He has put on a lot of weight. He must not be very busy.
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I was unaware that GWB was a fan of Eugenics. Thanks, DU. I learn so much from reading your mind dribblings. If I was half the Atheistic elitist that you all are, I might one day have your skills at sussing out the meaning of high-brow popcorn flicks.*sigh*
They haven't ever read much about Trey and Matt's feelings about them, have they? This movie is about you, DUmmies. YOU.
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The House of Representin'. I liked the Jumbotron in the House chamber. :-)
I'm sad to see Luke Wilson doing phone commercials while his idiot brother is still making movies. He has put on a lot of weight. He must not be very busy.
:rofl:
Yeah Luke is quite the puffy one these days.
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ChoppinBroccoli (410 posts) Mon Mar-01-10 06:11 PM
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And the ugly truth of the matter is that WHENEVER you appeal to the ignorant, you'll win every popularity contest by a landslide.
Hence the election of the jug-eared Kenyan Marxist.