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Motto posted:what's idiocracy, I keep hearing they're turning it into a documentary or something? a secretly pro-eugenics comedy movie that goons keep referencing for some reason real heads know that we’re actually living in Southland Tales
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DukeDuke posted:a secretly pro-eugenics comedy movie that goons keep referencing for some reason I thought the conflict was nutrient deficiency? The solution was to grow crops with water.
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Sep 18, 2020 07:07
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DukeDuke posted:a secretly pro-eugenics comedy movie that goons keep referencing for some reason that bonus ep of blowback where matt talks about southland tales with brendan was such a great bit, that movie is a delightful trainwreck
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Sep 18, 2020 07:22
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miniscule12 posted:I thought the conflict was nutrient deficiency? The solution was to grow crops with water. the movie’s premise is that dumb people outbred smart people which made American society degenerate into vulgarity and ignorance. it even ends with the narrator celebrating the protagonist (a cryogenically-frozen average-IQ guy from 2005) having the only non-stupid children in the world yeah it’s pretty open about it
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Sep 18, 2020 07:29
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Yeah the movie is not subtle about it. I wouldn't say it's advocating for eugenics but its premise is rooted in the same ideas.
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Sep 18, 2020 07:33
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The_Rob posted:I don’t get this bit. they're mad fyad is racist and misogynist all the time
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Sep 18, 2020 07:38
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lotta good jokes in idiocracy imo.
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Sep 18, 2020 07:42
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DukeDuke posted:the movie’s premise is that dumb people outbred smart people which made American society degenerate into vulgarity and ignorance. it even ends with the narrator celebrating the protagonist (a cryogenically-frozen average-IQ guy from 2005) having the only non-stupid children in the world makes sense, movies didn't know what class was back then
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Sep 18, 2020 09:28
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they talked a bit about the uselessness of the fbi but something they didn't mention is that they never caught eric rudolph either by sheer dumb luck he was dumpster diving behind a strip mall one morning and got spotted by a local cop on patrol
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Sep 18, 2020 09:41
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Chexoid posted:Amber talks about cops in the new premium ep so I think we should all enjoy this diversion while we can DukeDuke posted:a secretly pro-eugenics comedy movie
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Sep 18, 2020 10:23
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In quick succession, we get references to Slaughterhouse-Five, Dune, and Watchmen. 
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Sep 18, 2020 10:44
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gfarrell80 posted:They're basically the same person. no way, ol yeller's syntax was downright professional. hardarf is lazy
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Sep 18, 2020 11:02
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Seams posted:lotta good jokes in idiocracy imo. The only two jokes from idiocracy that I really remember being worthwhile are “welcome to costco, I love you” and “you like money? I like money! we should hang out.” But it’s been forever so I’m sure there’s at least one good joke I’m forgetting.
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Sep 18, 2020 12:18
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Heath posted:Yeah the movie is not subtle about it. I wouldn't say it's advocating for eugenics but its premise is rooted in the same ideas. A broken education system or lack of education is what makes people stupid, not genes, and it's disingenuous to say the movie argues otherwise  America's downfall is largely due to its inability/refusal to educate its own citizens
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Sep 18, 2020 12:20
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Chexoid posted:Amber talks about cops in the new premium ep so I think we should all enjoy this diversion while we can *cracks knuckles* Time to cancel Amber again.
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Sep 18, 2020 12:24
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Honestly if they replaced the eugenics stuff with mass lead poisoning they probably could have gotten away with it
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Sep 18, 2020 12:36
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Lmao they just drew a false equivalence while doing an antisemitism. So are these guys chud or chud adjacent? Theyre at least a little bit fash, thats for sure
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Sep 18, 2020 13:10
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People brag about reading all the posts in a thread, never ignoring anyone, meanwhile I am pretty close to having an entire page of ignored posts in this thread.
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Sep 18, 2020 13:22
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Idiocracy was especially dumb because we were already living in it even before Trump became president. And it certainly wasn't the poor who created the idiocracy. Also Trump is dumber than the president in the film.
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Sep 18, 2020 13:33
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ArfJason posted:Lmao they just drew a false equivalence while doing an antisemitism. So are these guys chud or chud adjacent? Theyre at least a little bit fash, thats for sure what they often get away with is a no-true-scotsman combined with a new fallacy called “the jester’s gambit” - by doing revanchist agitprop and no-growth in this manner they have consigned an entire generation of leftists to being useful idiots for the various PMC hangers-on in the podcastsphere.
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Sep 18, 2020 13:34
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This is that video that connects flat earth to Q that matt mentioned in one of his rambles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
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THS posted:what they often get away with is a no-true-scotsman combined with a new fallacy called “the jester’s gambit” - by doing revanchist agitprop and no-growth in this manner they have consigned an entire generation of leftists to being useful idiots for the various PMC hangers-on in the podcastsphere. oh absolutely. anyway just listened to a new episode and they just called middle eastern people subhuman.
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Sep 18, 2020 14:43
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:A broken education system or lack of education is what makes people stupid, not genes, and it's disingenuous to say the movie argues otherwise Yep. I'd also say corporate capture of the two party power structure has left us so apathetic/hopeless that our main outlet of political expression is attempting to argue on forum posts, in some cases ironically or trollishly. Meanwhile, our broken education system is resulting in QAnon followers getting elected to Congress and flat-earthers actually being a thing. The Richard Jewell episode was great. I gotta say too I think the Chapo guys poo poo all over Gran Torino a bit too much. It is definitely a questionable film in that a viewer may normalize racist stereotypes, but I think it did have some pretty on point things to say about generational family, suburbanization (more affluent whites fleeing inner ring older suburbs), de-industrialization, immigration, and Gran Torino really faces up to the fact that the USA is still a goddamn racist country. Other semi-recent 'race' films - Green Book, American History X - you can watch those and think hey, people generally have good intentions deep down and we're working it out. Gran Torino I feel is a bit more accurate on the deep harbored level of racism and just how intractable it is - it paints us more as we are than how we want to be. But it does show what I believe is probably the best tool for defeating racism - actually living in the same neighborhood. Meeting, speaking, eating with, joining the family of your neighbors. As opposed to some other films which think you can win a war of ideas or something. So - Gran Torino. Did it help enable the candidacy of Andrew Yang?
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Sep 18, 2020 15:11
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The jewell episode is the most earnest I think they've been in a while
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Sep 18, 2020 15:13
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Chakan posted:The only two jokes from idiocracy that I really remember being worthwhile are “welcome to costco, I love you” and “you like money? I like money! we should hang out.” But it’s been forever so I’m sure there’s at least one good joke I’m forgetting. I will spell anything I can get away with with 2 “D”s so you can always get a double dose of his pimpin’ Also the surfer doctor/lawyer and that entire scene never fails to crack me up, even with its problematic slurs.
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Sep 18, 2020 15:20
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the whole "watering plants with gatorade" subplot is also great the movie is very funny and accurately predicted the decline of society, they just missed the mark when attributing that decline to first-world countries not practicing eugenics
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Sep 18, 2020 15:24
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Idiocracy is *not* a documentary because in the real world of 2020, fuddruckers is being liquidated Sad!
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Sep 18, 2020 15:27
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Not really feeling this episode.
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Sep 18, 2020 16:06
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Not really feeling this episode. it's one of their better ones of 2020 wtf i didn't see richard jewell so i can't tell if they're doing a straight or contrarian reading of it but i like their interpretation
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Sep 18, 2020 16:08
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working my way through the back catalogue. they just accused black people of some heinous poo poo. the hits keep on coming.
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Sep 18, 2020 16:10
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i say swears online posted:it's one of their better ones of 2020 wtf I've been a security guard for 10 years now, and I'm just not that into trying to rehabilitate the archetype of the guy who goes all in on being a security guard cause he can't be a cop. These people loving suck.
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Sep 18, 2020 16:12
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Oh god now you guys are discussing idiocracy in earnest, I played right into his hands 
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Sep 18, 2020 16:24
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I’m glad The Posts are back https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1306977170947014661?s=21
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Sep 18, 2020 16:25
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Moist boy is back
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Chakan posted:The only two jokes from idiocracy that I really remember being worthwhile are “welcome to costco, I love you” and “you like money? I like money! we should hang out.” But it’s been forever so I’m sure there’s at least one good joke I’m forgetting. 
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Sep 18, 2020 18:03
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little munchkin posted:the movie is very funny and accurately predicted the decline of society, they just missed the mark when attributing that decline to first-world countries not practicing eugenics
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Sep 18, 2020 18:24
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gfarrell80 posted:So - Gran Torino. Did it help enable the candidacy of Andrew Yang? little munchkin posted:they just missed the mark when attributing that decline to first-world countries not practicing eugenics
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Sep 18, 2020 18:24
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does anybody have a actual answer for why he looks so moist nowadays it's like kind of disturbing
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Sep 18, 2020 18:26
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ArfJason posted:oh absolutely. no they said "subterranean". theirs is one of the Cthonic races from the deeps
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Is this in the director's cut? Shipon posted:that bonus ep of blowback where matt talks about southland tales with brendan was such a great bit, that movie is a delightful trainwreck
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