Time for Dems to shut down the government and call a general strike. Unify the people. Kind of like what Biden did with the railway strike in 2022, but the opposite.

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The U.S. occupation of Gaza has begun

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Joe Biden would have never supported a genocied.

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We need a followup to Idiocracy

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Yes, I think we are closer to idiocracy now (Bush II vs. Trump), but not because of "breeding". Nobody is "breeding" humans, lol. That's disgusting framing.

There was also the cultural aspect of anti-intellectualism where people displaying any hint of intelligence are abused, physically and/or verbally, which cultivates further anti-intellectualism. Also in the intro scene the 2 groups juxtaposed were one that live in a trailer park (symbolizing the poors) and one that live in a mansion (symbolizing the wealthy). The movie takes place in the US so we know access is drawn exactly along those lines. I saw it as more of a materialistic framing, and backed by the well established relationship between education and birth rate, but I guess that’s art, right? People walk away with different ideas after seeing the same thing.

Also, on another note, no need to be angry among comrades :) it's all good, we're all on the same side

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

only influenced by your parents

Huh? I didn't get that from the movie. There was also the cultural aspect of anti-intellectualism where people displaying any hint of intelligence are abused, physically and/or verbally, which cultivates further anti-intellectualism. Also in the intro scene the 2 groups juxtaposed were one that live in a trailer park (symbolizing the poors) and one that live in a mansion (symbolizing the wealthy). The movie takes place in the US so we know access is drawn exactly along those lines. I saw it as more of a materialistic framing, and backed by the well established relationship between education and birth rate, but I guess that's art, right? People walk away with different ideas after seeing the same thing.

3w ago

Why is Citations Needed on the banner?

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

okaaaay?

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Really? That must have gone totally over my head. Huh. Well, it's been 20 years lol. I don't remember there being any policy suggestions in the movie.

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Yea, eugenics is intentional and human-directed. My recollection is that Idiocracy didn't have that aspect, but it's been over 20 years so I might be wrong.

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

No, it's not. Eugenics is using selective breeding and/or forced sterilization to produce a human population with specific traits.

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Do you think that the US has been engaged in a program of eugenics between 2006 and now? Cuz we are a lot closer to Idiocracy now than when it came out.

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Why is Citations Needed on the banner?

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Lore, awesome! Thanks for the info.

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Yes I remember that. That's definitely not "pro-eugenics". There's a strong correlation between women's access to education and birth rate (they are inversely related), which is also not eugenics.

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I don't know if they realize the degree to which they have destroyed the legitimacy of liberal democracy

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Hold up I just got a text from said Democracy (the will of the people)

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I don't know if they realize the degree to which they have destroyed the legitimacy of liberal democracy

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

Well under Democracy with American Characteristics, political parties are private corporations. Participation in the presidential debates is also run by a private corporation, who declared early on

After studying the election process in 1985, the bipartisan National Commission on Elections recommended "[t]urning over the sponsorship of presidential debates to the two major parties".[3] The CPD was established in 1987 by the chairmen of the Democratic and Republican Parties to "take control of the presidential debates".[3] The commission was staffed by members from the two parties and chaired by the heads of the Democratic and Republican parties, Paul G. Kirk and Frank Fahrenkopf.[3] At a 1987 press conference announcing the commission's creation, Fahrenkopf said that the commission was not likely to include third-party candidates in debates, and Kirk said he personally believed they should be excluded from the debates.[3]

The heads of the CPD are usually ex-leaders of the two corporations that make up the Democratic and Republican parties, and when those corporations want to bypass the CPD, they just negotiate with different corporations.

In May 2024, the Biden and Trump campaigns struck a deal to circumvent the CPD and participate in two debates (on CNN on June 27 and ABC on September 10), breaking a longstanding tradition of debates organized under the auspices of the CPD,[10] throwing the future of the CPD into doubt.

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

How so?

3w ago

Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?

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fort_burp @feddit.nl 3w ago

You guys are gonna blame leftists and/or Putin all the way to prison, aren't you? What's happening now is purely American, baby, and non-whites have been subjected to it for hundreds of years.

Sarcasm aside, you really don't need to look much further than American literacy rates and money in politics to see how we got here. Bonus points if you look into FPTP and gerrymandering. Of course it's much easier to be intellectually lazy and just say "this is all Putin's fault. Just wait till the miderms".

edit: geopolitics- yea, the US did this to itself (but a few people made a lot of money!!).