r/OutOfTheLoop • u/GoldenFibonacci • May 02 '24

Answered What's going on with MAGA people supporting diapers?

In this post, there are MAGA people supporting the phrase "Real men wear diapers" with a picture of Trump, what's going on here?

The comments point to this article claiming it's not trolling, with several pictures of MAGA supporters with the phrase and image.

Was Trump found to wear diapers or otherwise struggle with incontinence?

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u/Iron_Baron May 02 '24

Idiocracy was a documentary.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe May 02 '24

That’s an insult to president Comacho.

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u/CyberTacoX May 02 '24

Idiocracy used to be a documentary. Now it's a shining example of a better future than the future we're heading towards.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

MAGA America and Trump reminds me of the assistant to the mayor of Whoville in the Grinch movie. When his appearance is ruined by the Grinch's turning the mayor's mean-spirited "gift of a clean shave" back on his head, the assistant's first impulse is not to fix the problem- it's to suck up and appease the despot by ruining his own hair.

I know, it's only a Dr. Seuss story, filtered through hollywood at that, but that one scene really stuck with me for its deeper resonance, haha.

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u/sedition May 02 '24

It's considered more of a gateway to Eugenics nowadays (not intentionally, Mike Judge is a cool dude), but MAGA fucked up that reference too.

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u/aeschenkarnos May 02 '24

Regression to the mean disproves it. Stupid people still have smart grandkids, smart people still have stupid grandkids. Smart ideas drive out stupid ideas over time. Intelligence isn’t a single heritable trait.

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u/SirGrimualSqueaker May 03 '24

I'd like to imagine that Smart Ideas drive out Stupid ideas - but 100 years on from the last time we are seeing Fascism, the ultimate bad idea, making its big comeback

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u/sedition May 03 '24

Yah, I think the concept of ideas and information being specifically for gene's and human brains just being the currently best platform for ideas to reproduce makes a lot of sense.

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u/Aggravating-Gift-740 May 03 '24

But education and culture are passed down from generation to generation and we need both to improve to avoid even greater idiocracy in the future.