I was in a deep, depressed daze for weeks after I watched it. And I won't watch it again. If I want shit that depressing, I can always turn on the news.

You're right, it doesn't seem like a comedy at all now.

that makes my head hurt

thanks for the clarification

I feel like Fred Armisen and Bill Hader could have done a better job.

have watched it several times since and given copies to many people

It was a mockumentary that has become a prescient docudrama

and I got a really bad feeling about it - "My god, that's where we're headed!"

and it was a prescient warning.

However, the people weren't evil, they were stupid, but not malicious.

The current crop of idiots are also mean, filled with malice.

shithole and the Republican Party are dumber coupled with so much hatred.

Amurikka is such a disappointment. 'Muricans even more so.

Link to Idiocracy streaming on Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/Idiocracy_201507

The parallels between the rise of Hitler and Trump is truly amazing. Frightening really.

I think it was a teaser, because the reality is much, much worse. The documentary of Trump's rise and fall in the presidency will go beyond reason and understanding. For some, it will be a reminder that the US was never immune from the same social dynamics that took Germany down. And worse, we will need to find a way to live alongside of racists who will begin to gaslight us once they realize their reign of terror is over.

It's an absurd movie that in a lot of ways describes our current reality.

Was actually more cogent and sensible than tRump's. At least they wanted to hear what the smart guy had to say.

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And you aren’t kidding about the similarities.

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If you want to embed the video so DU readers who may be interested can see it. 😉 ❤️

Living up to your screenname!

Not long after renting it that it was a documentary cleverly disguised as a comedy. I tried watching not long ago again but now it hits like Saving Private Ryan did my grandfather.

Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in 2028...

When it was first released, my 25 year old daughter told us about. At that time, we thought we were heading in that direction. Since the 2016 election, we worried it would come true. Now, 10 years later, it is true. The pictures of the White House side by side, says it all. (Someone has already posted that meme. )

"It has the electrolytes that plants crave." I keep expecting to hear that.

He was involved in the WWF/WWE for a while, but he was was never remotely a wrestler.
https://www.wwe.com/superstars/donald-trump

It seems like something you could believe him trying to do.

A video was posted with Trump talking about electrolytes which I posted (not here), and referenced this movie. Ten bloody years ago.

Specifically, all the "behind closed doors" stuff.

Idiocracy is FULL of technology that the people depicted in the film couldn't have made in a million years - electric cars the police can pull over by remotely disabling their batteries, the Carl's Jr vending machine with a built-in self defense mechanism, the light rail system at Costco, the big-screen TVs, the animated billboard, all the ultra-processed foods people eat, the barcode tattoo machine and the diagnostic machine at the hospital are just the ones I can think of. Oh yeah, and also the vehicles used in Monday Night Rehabilitation. SOMEONE is behind the scenes creating these things. Plus, SOMEONE had to invent Brawndo and make the decision to buy several government agencies so they could act free of controls.

The same thing is happening in our government. A series of right wing think tanks and hostile foreign governments are telling Trump and his GOP minions what to do.

President Camacho was dumb but he tried to figure out how he could make things right. With this lot, cruelty is among the GOALS.

One viewing was enough for me. There are too many good movies for me to waste my time with a second viewing.

Loved the movie, still have a Brawndo coffee mug (somebody disappeared my Antifa mug -- maybe a Trumper in my family -- but I'll get another). The movie extrapolates current trends to their ridiculous end, and nuance and complexity are of course gone. I think there's too much emphasis on selective breeding for low IQ (actually, IQ has been increasing in recent years, a well established though almost unbelievable trend) and not enough emphasis on economic structures as determinative. But it's great entertainment for what it is.

AI summary:

It won't be less intelligent people having more kids that brings about Idiocracy, it will be people relying on AI instead of their own brains.

Use it or lose it.

Happy to learn that the Flynn effect hasn’t been supported by recent data. It has been puzzling to think that people who have been getting smarter on average would vote for Donald Trump, whose version of the Beatitudes includes “Blessed are the igoramuses, for they will queue up for lobotomies.” Still, I think that the movies dips into victim blaming — the feral cretinism of the depicted populace is in reality a result not so much of genetics but of
manufactured stupidity.

the "Time Macheen" amusement park ride part that goes through the allies defeating the Nazis and how "the UN un-Nazied the world". That's just a strange thing to put in a movie about evolution in reverse.

When I saw that first few minutes, I thought, "Oh shit! I can easily see this becoming our future." Here we are, only we have President Donald John Diet Coke Herbert Trump, and "protein" instead of "electrolytes." Except that it's way worse, and not at all comedic.

I can't watch anymore. What was satire is now kinda painful.

Ivermectin is the new Brawndo.

Titled: "Soylent Green"

Note that 'Soylent Green' is too subversive for a remake, as is 'They Live'. Now we get dumbed down Marvel Heroes.

But I do not accept it!

The first time, I just thought it was a goofy but enjoyable flick. The second time was after Trump's first reign of error and I was shocked at how prescient it is.

If you haven't seen it, treat yourself. It's not a masterpiece, but it IS a good piece of satire with salience for today.

And have watched it several times since. Have recommended over the years to friends and family, especially during fatass’ first term.

As a matter of fact, I just asked a good friend yesterday if he had his tickets to the Memorial Day monster truck rally on South Lawn of the White House with thinly veiled reference to it. Being in on the joke he replied he did, and his seats were near the mud wrestling pit.

The sad part is, none of the is funny anymore.

My greatest fear though, is that when the next pandemic arrive RFK roadkill and Fatass will be recommending Brawndo as a cure.

How far and how fast we have fallen.

and jokes. He dumbs down policy so the uneducated will buy into it and they'll feel so smart about it, even though they are grateful they don't have to think.

Saw it a few years ago. Thought I would never actually live through a real version of it though.

That was about 15 years ago or so.

My son has a demented sense of humor. "Mom you gotta see this".
He also liked that Wayan's movie, "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood"

Oddly prescient of our current reality.

" i'me the smartest man ? That test wasn't even hard ! "
" use water on the crops? The stuff in the toilet ?! "
" House of " REPRESENTIN "

I think Idiocracy is definitely really good, but it's way too kind when it comes to human nature. As long as we are allowed to choose who we have kids with, there are going to be a whole lot of people with true merit, whether that be IQ, EQ, beauty, skill, whatever.

The question really is what a huge majority of idiots, be they religious fanatics or just bands of wildly divergent, angry, mentally lost people do. In a true Idiocracy, without AI, the two smart people from the past wouldn't last five seconds.

In it, automated systems were able to sustain society. That's truly fantasy

And President Camacho would be preferable to trump.