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Can you help me explain why Idiocracy is terrible? (hexbear.net)

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I have a friend who is a good person overall but really buys into the "real life is becoming Idiocracy" bit. I was frustrated, because I'm not the best real-time arguer so I don't think I did a good job of expressing why the movie is disgusting trash.

I attempted to talk about how it blames people instead of systems, and how it's an awful eugenics narrative. But we quickly got into a rabbit hole about whether intelligence can be passed on genetically or not and if that matters, and other dumb topics that went nowhere.

What's a concise and offline-compatible way of explaining why Idiocracy is bad & decent people should find it gross?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I've had to actively try and make mine like Macho Man, I default to a heavy Appalachian accent and I'm from Appalachia...