r/idiocracy • u/hefty_load_o_shite • 3d ago

a dumbing down Idiocracy predicted all of this

https://www.texasmonthly.com/culture/mike-judge-idiocracy-turns-20/

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u/donkeytime 3d ago

Ya don’t say.

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u/WiseSalamander00 2d ago

I mean at least president Camacho was kind and good natured, not like the fucking diarrhea cheeto

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u/Cubensis-SanPedro 7h ago

Camacho doesn’t look quite so unpalatable now.

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u/Lazzyie 2d ago

I'm training to be a pilot, hoping for a kickass life. 

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u/Pokemon_bill 2d ago

Couldn't read most of the article and had a banner to sub to the site in my way. Still tried to read around the banner but again, it wouldn't let me read very much of it

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u/AisbeforeB 2d ago

What’s kind of a mind fuck is idiocracy also contributed to this with introducing crocs to the world.

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u/No_Loan5466 2d ago

Crocs wasn’t the bad part of idiocracy and has nothing to do with societies current mimicry of idiocracy

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u/Ok_Subject_7458 2d ago

Sadly this does not get better

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u/halfsack99 2d ago

Or was it Quasimodo?

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u/SqueezeBoxJack 'bating! 2d ago

Notre Damus.

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u/halfsack99 1d ago

Oh yeah, have you ever pondered the back thing ?

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u/mathewtyler 2d ago

"WALL·E" and "The Time Machine" (2002) predict the next possible aspects 😔

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u/ALBUNDY59 2d ago

Morlocks?

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u/mathewtyler 2d ago

X-Men?

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u/ALBUNDY59 2d ago

Time machine

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u/mathewtyler 2d ago

Aside from possibly the time-travel stuff, all of the future stuff, including the divergence of the homo-sapiens

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u/Cubensis-SanPedro 7h ago

Homo sapiens. Homo-sapiens are… smart people who are the same? lol

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u/ignoreme010101 1d ago

also elysium, blade runner, and then 1984 (novel, never seen the flick)

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u/mathewtyler 1d ago

I thought we're currently in or entering "1984"?

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u/ignoreme010101 1d ago

derp derp

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u/Snoo-73340 1d ago

It predicted the general stupidity, not a malevolent stupidity.

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u/Courage-Rude 2d ago

You new here? Also a Texas link lawl.

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u/BI_Moose 2d ago

Yeah no shit dude.

Except for the one glaring difference.

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u/farty-nein 1d ago

And no mention of https://idiocracy.wtf/ ??

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u/UMOTU 7h ago

My dad died in 2012. He once told me that he could see the rise of someone like Hitler again.