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How is this not the Idiocracy timeline? I'd anything it feels like the pace of the "dumbing down" is too fast.
The president in Idiocracy sought the help of someone smart.
Y’all need to remember that and realize we are way past this movie.
He could also form coherent sentences, was in Terry Crews-shape, and didn't shit himself once. We're already well into Idiocracy 2: Electric Boogaloo territory.
and it was the AI assigning jobs to people too.
Idiocracy would be a vast improvement over our current predicament, no joke.
Ignorant but willing to learn. And laugh about farts, not violence.
IIRC. Maybe I should re-watch it.
Don't forget the Dil-dozer!
Yeah, there weren't leagues of malevolent rich assholes seeking to make the world worse for their own profits. Just a bunch of idiots who apparently forgot how to think.
Absolutely, idiocracy was too optimistic. In their version, it took 500 years to get there.
We'll be there in a generation, maybe 2. (If we have that many generations.)