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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the kind of shit that makes Idiocracy the most weirdly prophetic movie I’ve ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ignoring the blatant eugenics of the very first scene, I'd rather live in the idiocracy world because at least the president with all of his machismo and grandstanding was still humble enough to put the smartest guy in the room in charge of actually getting plants to grow.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My take away from that was the poorly educated had more kids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Giving the benefit of the doubt I can see that reading but it definitely implied that stupidity is genetic because of how big the stupid people family tree gets and the scifi story it was based on was a looooot more explicit with the eugenics of the story.