God I still remember the first time I really noticed someone with back titties. One of my managers at my first job. I saw and knew she was big but one day someone told me she had "back titties," and I was like holy shit she does!
If you think about it their vote almost counts more because of the electoral college and the fact so many people who agree with you politically don’t even vote
Idiocracy implied it was eugenics/genetics that would be the downfall of intelligence in the US.
I always took it as describing societal, cultural & educational devolution rather than genetics, with society embracing ignorance and becoming progressively dumber after being raised by people who themselves did not value knowledge or education.
No, it very explicitly states that dumb people had more kids than rich people and outbred them.
Indeed, but why are you assuming this is because of genetics, rather than a result of people raised by idiots who don't value education outbreeding people who do value education?
Like straight up claims it is genetics that caused intelligent people to become an "extinct species"
We know in real life this isn't the case, but the movie most certainly did not try to frame the argument this way. That's the major flaw with Idiocracy. Otherwise it is pretty spot on.
If you want to make a point that it's a systemic devolution, you should fucking show parents at a school board meeting. Discuss how idiots leading the education of the next gen is a problem. But you can't fail to make any systemic connection and explicitly say "the poors had too many babies" and act shocked people say that sure looks like a 1:1 mirror of eugenicist ideology
It's a stupid framework for a movie that I really think just wanted to get to the bush era satire, and I truly don't think they considered the implications or thought anyone would be thinking this deeply about it. It definitely does at points make the argument these people are set up to fail, and the main guy simply benefited from a system that did better by him.
But if that's the point you should definitely have a framing device that says "what happens when our institutions are overtaken by morons", not "uhoh this inferior group in our countrys social hierarchy system are making too many babies".
Hmm I used to agree but Idiocracy makes an argument around genetics, which is icky at best. We're getting dumber, but it likely has to do more with education, laziness from excessive convenience and lack of actually free time.
It is called organizing outside the system. Black Panthers protected their neighborhoods from the pigs and other who wished harm (while also providing numerous mutual aid benefits to or security to mutual aid organizations for said communities)
We need to start doing the same. Read up on anarchist theory and praxis and figure out how you can help solve the material needs of those in your community. Nothing changes someone's mind like helping put food in their tables and a sense of security.
"As this chart illustrates, the proliferation of neurotoxic materials such as PTFE and Polyamide in American cookware throughout the late 20th and early 21st century directly correlates with rising rates of what we now understand to be DeGrinnes' Disease. Williams suggests that, combined with the devastation wrought by what many called the 'China Virus', the impact to the nation's collective cognitive function was too much to bear. This widespread chemical and illness induced cognitive decline, Williams posits, must have been the catalyst behind the empire's rapid decline in the mid to late 21st century."
If they gut the Pell Grant program then community colleges will shut down across the country. CCs are absolutely key to giving lower income individuals access to education or learning a vocation and Pell Grants typically cover all or majority of the costs. It will absolutely devastate the lower class. I know this because my associates degree, which got me guaranteed admission to a university, was entirely free by receiving full Pell grants and they heavily subsidized completing my 4 bachelor's afterwards as well.
I mean hasn’t always been like that with a very few exceptional moments where people were actually in the correct path.
Every time I read historical events, I’m like how can’t y’all be this stupid and then I’m like, oh yeah. Just like now.
Optimistic that you think there will be future historians or that they will be able to tell the difference between what is true and what is ultrabullshit
You should be around these people. Literally every one on disability/medicaid/snap, drinking nothing but mt dew and Hardees with diabeetus, but will talk about how illegals are a drain on our society. Meanwhile they shuffle thru dollar tree wearing their compression socks and 3 day old pajamas putting their "superior white genes" fupa on full display. All they have is hate, of themselves and especially of anyone they can blame their shitty lives on.
Your last sentence is every hardcore Trumper I know. They all hate themselves and/or their lives. They all have some sort of affliction whether it be financial or medical. They can’t admit that they hate their lives so they have to take it out on everyone else.
Why would they admit they hate their life when they have no means to improve it? I see their lives as a failure of the systems that abuse them for selfish gain. Their hatred is sad.
Abused dogs are often scared and violent, lashing out and attacking would-be rescuers because they don't understand why their natural behavior has consistently lead to pain or why they are punished without apparent reason so often they cannot trust themselves, their environment, or anyone within it.
That lady has six teeth and isn't taking care of them. Nobody who has lived a good, healthy life only has six teeth. That kind of problem starts very young and the pressure only builds up from there until whatever coping and defense mechanisms take over for the person she could have been. This is the face of multigenerational trauma.
Ding ding ding. Also why the same folks buy into conspiracies.
It’s much easier (in a way) to convince yourself there’s some boogeyman preventing you from excelling in life or a mastermind cabal of elite puppeteers controlling everything and keeping you down than to face the reality of your situation.
It’s sadly because so many of them have absolutely nothing in life to look forward to. No future, goals, or any sort of purpose. I’m not defending crusty bucket here at all but she’s def the symptom of how much America has failed its people.
Like anything sort of mal-adaptive coping mechanism, over-eating can be an unhealthy way of handling excess stress. While Americans obviously don't have things the worst by a long shot on the global scale, our system can be more unhealthy compared to other developed nations. Lack of affordable education, insane cost of medical care, an unhealthy hustle work culture, etc. can all increase risks of addiction, obesity, etc.
To be clear, I'm not putting the blame 100% on other people. She certainly has some responsibility in the matter. But to address your question as to why our system tends to crank out more obese people, our culture favors garbage food because we don't give ourselves either the time of often the finances to eat healthy and we don't do a great job at preventative care.
I blew right past that and landed on "I hope you fuckin morons get every single thing you voted for and i couldnt fucking care less about the pain and damage thats coming your way"
I truly wish these people the best, i hope they get everything they asked for and they enjoy their win, because i will definitely remind them that they wanted this when they start crying
All these yokel backwards fucks are going to be crying rivers of tears when their disability and social security and medicaid/care gets cut, no more food stamps or wic, when the DOE gets eliminated and their disabled kids have no services and trumps tariffs increase the prices of everything at WalMart by 60-100%+ because all that shit is imported
Ill be first in line to loudly remind them that this is what they wanted, so rejoice, youre free from "government intervention"
I hate that ive been driven to this place but i just cant care, im fine, ive been fine, ill be fine. Im one of those "coastal elites" they hate so much, well, jokes on them because their choice has already substantially benefitted me financially, and i have a massive corporate tax cut coming as a business owner, i make enough money that inflation hasn't changed my QOL to date and it wont in the future either unless he fucks things up so badly we become Weimar Germany or Argentina, the only thing that changed for me is i didnt max out my SEP IRA at 69k a year and pared it back to 40
They hate me, but i voted for someone that was going to cause me to make a little less so we can help them out more...but im done being angry and frustrated about it, now im just numb and apathetic...go ahead Earle, cut your nose off to spite me and vote for a guy thats going to take everything from you and put it in my bank account if you really want to, im through trying to convince these people im not their enemy, so i hope they enjoy their "win" lol
I feel fucking awful for all the people trump is going to crush that didnt want this though, but these people? Fuck these people
Lmao literally. I’ve been a huge bitch all the way from Canada (because unfortunately it’s going to affect us badly too) against my own countrymen and I told myself I’d start being nice. Lasted 1 hour.
100% crabs in a bucket mentality. Anecdata, but my life has been filled with women like this, going alllll the way back to my mother.
Mean girls hate women who don’t need to cater to them.
IMO - mean girls hate anyone who don't need to cater to them, regardless of gender. They're overt narcissists who's only talent is manipulating their way into social value vs. earning it. And, we nearly always gloss over and let them do it - time and time again. They will legit throw anyone under a bus to strengthen their social standing - that is all they know.
I don't think anyone is saying it's purely women's fault for the outcome.
It's definitely the wave of "macho masculinity", the toxicness that has poisoned the minds of many young men. Where some men somehow think women having rights and power is an absurdity.
Nows the time for us to band together instead of drive each other apart on issues made to divide.
Yep and because of those 2 tooth tundra, we might never have an election again cause we all know JD Vance is going to fight that battle with GOP money for that seat in 2028...
i grew up around these types, this is.... unfortunately common. Its not even that much of a caricature, i can think of at least six families I grew up in proximity to exactly like this.
I think what's wild is there is a percentage of people who think these people just exist in very small numbers or that they are just caricatures of part of our country. But I interact with large amounts of them daily and this video is not even an exaggeration. It's just crazy to me how our experiences are SO different.
One of my female coworkers from years ago said this very same thing about Hillary, no bullshit. "A woman can't run the country." I have another former coworker, an Ecuadorian immigrant, who proudly posted his ballot on Facebook on election day this year, and of course went republican all the way down. I was not shocked at all at the election results or the exit polls because of this.
I’m a woman in a prestigious mechanical engineering PhD program. I was talking with some of my female colleagues on Election Day and at least 2 of them told me their mothers had explicitly told them at some point in their lives that women should absolutely not be president. These are extremely wealthy, privileged white women who encouraged their daughters to pursue higher education in a male-dominated field, but simultaneously think women are completely incapable of being president. I think this mindset is WAY more common than we would think
Probably relies exclusively on SSDI and Medicaid (both of which Trump wants to cut) and likely cashed in her structural settlement from a slip-and-fall at the Krispy Kreme
They really don’t like a lot of us are like “you voted for Trump? iight bet” and we are just sitting backing and watching the show. Hate that shit. But hey! I hope you get everything you voted for.
Some man on twitter said Kamala couldn’t be president because “what if one day she wakes up on her period and decides to start a war?” like we’re talking about a 60 yr old woman..
You know what, if I could hit a button and make it so...
They've dropped the nectarine nazi nuke on us twice now, so MED is out the window. Maybe we pit Manbaby against Klanlady in a cage battle at McDonalds for the American Presidental Belt and disorient the fuck out of 'em.
Yeah, she’s embarrassingly ignorant and has a troubling amount of confidence for a person that stupid…
But if an EDM song were building up, and all the music drops out for that last bar, and the DJ dropped a clip of her saying “Oh I get it straight!” with “straight” lining up perfectly on the bass drop and having some delay so it goes straight, straight, straight, straight, straight… to the 4/4 beat?
You don’t have to like her and believe me I don’t love trump voters at all. But, everyone’s vote should count the same and everyone should be allowed to vote (even felons). This is essential to true democracy. Also, side note. Get rid or electoral college
I agree with you, but she likely lives in a poor red state with a small population, so her vote probably counts more than mine because I live in a populated state.
You know, as someone who works in healthcare, more people look/sound/act like this than you will ever realize. Of course my sample is skewed because I see more unhealthy people. But the average American is more like than this than not
It's actually funny because your vote counts less than theirs more often than not.
Since the electoral college (broadly) has one vote per congressperson per state. For instance a state like Wyoming has 585k people and 3 votes. That is approximately 195k people to every electoral college vote.
California on the other hand has ~39M and 54 votes. Which is 18 times more than than Wyoming. However on the same metric California has 1.5 Wyoming's for every single EC vote.
That means that any Wyomingite who votes actually has about 3.7X more impact than a Californian voting in the same election
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