How is this not the Idiocracy timeline? I'd anything it feels like the pace of the "dumbing down" is too fast.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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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.)
Camacho would be such an improvement on reality nowadays...
Ya, at least he recognized there was someone out there smarter than him and brought him in as an advisor.
I hate how increasingly accurate this movie has become.
As is usually pointed out, the similarities are not strong.
President Camacho actually wanted to help his people, hired the smartest person he could find, and listened to his advice.
And stepped down as President in the end to let someone else lead. For a better comparison of leadership now, look at Don't Look Up. Far more realistic in so many ways.
I'll also throw in Iron Sky.
The problem with that is the world has to get bad enough for President Camacho to help the world. We're in the Pre-Camacho era
I literally saw a comment about a month ago on Lemmy saying "what's next, wrestling matches in the white house?" Or something like that.
Whoever you were, you fucking called it
They've been discussing this for the past couple of months at least though.
How tacky.
Release the Trump/Epstein files.
I'm so embarrassed to be associated with this country. I've only grown less and less patriotic as time goes by
President Camacho approves
At least camacho listened to tiny Head smart guy.
Yes we are in the timeline where the stupidest most over the top attempt at playing a stupid president would be a better candidate than the current president.
I just meant the MMA bit. He was a champion!
But we do have smart guy. Elon Musk will solve all our problems
We live in a joke of a country
How male and masculine.
Trump must really have a huge penis eh?! What a big boy.
Yeah, watching two ripped tattooed dudes wrestle in their underwear while inside a literal cage. Macho af
My favorite thing is taking pictures of them grappling, then putting a black censor bar over the trunks so it looks like they're having sex. Turns out it's really really easy to make it look gay(er).
even without it, it still looks like they are going hardcore.
Probably just a coincidence that Paramount is purchasing UFC exclusive steaming rights in a seven year deal.
skydance a trumper, trying to save the dying stream industry, trying to get the conservative audience on board.
without TREK, and south park, Theres no reason to even have paramount.
When are these “Alpha Males” going to turn on the pedo in chief because they certainly look like a bunch of beta cucks right now
UFC started to become fascist, absolutely ruinimg the sport. UFC In the facist house
We need more politically and philosophically astute sports.
Dana White at the inauguration was such a fever dream experience.
his creation of trying to make the trashy SLAP-fighting a thing should tell you as much, he mustve seen the UFC is declining, and need a new grift.
its basically glorified bumfights, allegedly he doesnt pay most of his fighters well, unless they are the face of the company.
Truly Dystopian
Ackshuly, isn't dystopia in the future? So, what is this then? Oh yeah, fascism.
Was the WWF (or whatever the criminal wrestling organization goes by these days) booked?
This is the best thing Trump has done this term