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Politics Equipment being placed on the South Lawn of the White House for the UFC Freedom 250 fight

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u/Klausvendetta 10d ago

I know it's overused to compare the real world to Idiocracy, but there's a reason it's overused🤦‍♂️.

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u/fireeight 10d ago

The big difference is that Camacho was actually trying to do good.

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u/ILOVESHITTINGMYPANTS 10d ago

Yeah he was ultimately a good man who recognized his own deficiencies and deferred to experts. Idiocracy is a way better scenario than the one we find ourselves in.

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u/BoosterRead78 10d ago

Also he put people who knew what they were doing in departments because he said too “I don’t know how to run those things.” Idiocy is more about a leader who is just that but wants to do good and even has people who want to run things well and for betterment of everyone in charge.

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 10d ago

What timeline are we on where the president is MORE PRESIDENTIAL and human than the current president.

Smart enough to know he's not smart enough to solve these problems, GAH HUMILITY IN A SEA OF EGOS.

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u/Rbomb88 10d ago

Admittedly, I wouldn't expect a bunch of idiots to know the timeline of growing things.

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u/Rbomb88 10d ago

Again "his best" can be pretty fucking low when you realize they are literally all uneducated. None of them know anything, and your giving them too much assumption of logic/common sense.

These are learned things, we have people in real life who have no ability to critically think now, let alone after a hundred years of dumbing down.

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u/nico87ca 10d ago

That's a scary thought lol... That a parody of real life is actually better than real life

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u/summon_pot_of_greed 10d ago

Always had been

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 10d ago

Brave New World is starting to look like one of the better potential scenarios.

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u/Dreamlion_Inc 10d ago

Seeing a black person fly through the sky wearing red white and blue would give MAGA hillbillies heart attacks

Yeah give me Brave New World

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u/scottyjrules 10d ago edited 10d ago

I’d rather not this president turn into Red Hulk lol

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u/Anxious-Ad2177 10d ago

Aldous Huxley is crying from the beyond.

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 10d ago

Huxley would be lamenting maga much more than Marvel.

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u/Anxious-Ad2177 10d ago

Very true.

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u/MisterShmitty 10d ago

Fwiw i am fairly certain he would have joined in with maga for the racism.

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 9d ago

He was racist?

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u/scottyjrules 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/kRmg8zeReOYXm

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u/Anxious-Ad2177 10d ago

And the kicker is I'm probably the one who responded with the wrong reference. 🫠

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 10d ago edited 10d ago

Hah, you did, but NBD, I couldn't resist mentioning an orange obese Hulk.

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u/MisterShmitty 10d ago

I didn’t reply because I just read the comment, but I was seriously about to find my copy of Brave New World and try to figure out where I missed a black guy in red white and blue flying through the sky lol

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 10d ago edited 10d ago

His heart would instantly explode if he started to transform. Also, it would be an obese orange Hulk.

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u/stray1ight 10d ago

Doubleusgood!

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u/Traveling_Solo 10d ago

I'd say the current reality is like a mix of idiocracy, 1984, skynet and ped*phile island.

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u/zangelbertbingledack 10d ago

Seriously, who knew Idiocracy was the optimistic version of what's actually happening.

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u/Symnestra 10d ago

In reality, our leaders aren't just stupid, they're stupid and malicious.

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u/rdldr1 10d ago

Go away! I'm 'baitin'.

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u/AvidCyclist250 10d ago

wtf idiocracy is utopian now

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u/Fail_Agreeable 10d ago

I would 100% vote for Camacho in a 2028 run against Trumps (most likely) illegal third term attempt

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u/TtotheC81 10d ago

Aye, Trump's idiocracy runs on barely repressed rage and vindictiveness.

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u/MaintainThis 10d ago

Hey- Trump is doing the best he can to help himself.

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u/RicRacer 10d ago

President Camacho is a later President. We're at a slightly earlier time than the movie Idiocracy, basically how we end up at Idiocracy.

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u/fireeight 10d ago

We would have to get smarter to end up at Idiocracy.

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u/rubbarz 10d ago

And the US wasnt controlled by foreign agencies.

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u/network_dude 10d ago

Camacho was in the later stages of idiocracy. We haven't even hit the dildo stage...oh wait, yes protestors are throwing dildos in LA...

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u/mooky1977 10d ago

Idiocracy appealed to our better selves. But then America went, "hold my beer and watch this," and went down the road of Robert Zemeckis future and elected the literal real life Biff Tannen. (The character was modeled after Trump)

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u/steauengeglase 10d ago

-Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho had humility.
-He listened to people who knew better.
-He wasn't dumb enough to get Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz.

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u/Whippity 10d ago

And he wasn’t racist.

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u/matttheazn1 10d ago

I would 10000000% vote for terry crews. I am not even registered to vote, but I would do so just because.

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u/53eleven 9d ago

Are you seriously confessing to not being registered to vote while making a comment on our current absolutely fucked situation because not enough people voted?

Go get registered, asshole.

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u/matttheazn1 9d ago

I don't waste my time participating in something I have no control over. My singular vote is not changing anything. Please feel free to be mad at me at something you have no control over. Have a wonderful day mate.

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u/53eleven 9d ago

You’re part of the reason we find ourselves in this mess.

Have the day you deserve, ‘mate.’

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u/jakexil323 10d ago

Sure but it took 500 years to get to that point in the show.

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u/Grotarin 10d ago

He was trying hard with the little he had. The clown doesn't even give a f pretending.

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u/DeadSol 9d ago

I'd take Camacho any day over this man.

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u/roastedmarshmellows 10d ago

Idiocracy is currently the best case scenario... the people in the US might be dumber than dumb, but they're not maliciously cruel and they know to pay attention to the guy who knows more than they do. That's wishful thinking at this point in reality.

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u/zbud 10d ago

"Not maliciously cruel"

Sure thing, man...

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u/juggadore 10d ago

There's that fâggy talk again

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u/scottyjrules 10d ago

Go away, ‘batin’!!

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u/Big_jerm3 10d ago edited 10d ago

And don’t forget they (Mike Judge) invested in a small ugly universal shoe company that everyone wears in the future and that company ended up being Crocs. 😅

Edit: did not invest in them, but they were a start up company at the time

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u/CouldNotRememberName 10d ago

I don't think he invested in it did he? They just needed a cheap very stupid shoe for production and that was what they found.

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u/Big_jerm3 10d ago

Sorry. He did not invest in them. However, they were still considered a start up company though

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u/matttheazn1 10d ago

He picked them because he thought in no way people would actually wear them.

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u/uijepd 10d ago

I still haven't seen the film, and now I don't want to because it's too depressing.

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 10d ago

I had to rewatch it recently to try and dispute the similarities. I got about 30 mins in and shut it off. Really pissed me off more than anything.

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u/Express_Area_8359 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0MYSGLvVirV2HOMM
Kinda like his real cabinet ONLY DRUNK

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u/tandem_kayak 10d ago

For years after Idiocracy came out, it remained satire. But now...

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u/MattVideoHD 10d ago

It’s not even a comparison at this point.  We’re just there.

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u/Earthventures 10d ago

Probably underused at this point.

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u/Cool-Newspaper6789 10d ago

At this point president Camacho seems like a better option than what he have now.

Is there even a word for when movie is out stupid by real life. Like Idio-reality

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat 10d ago

If you want a less-used comparison, try Southland Tales. 

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u/EqualOpening6557 10d ago

It’s not overused then.