• Soulphite@reddthat.com
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        11 hours ago

        Camacho definitely understood there was a problem, sought after someone much smarter to help solve it. Can’t say any politician today would be humbled to do something like that.

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      13 hours ago

      I’d honestly prefer that scenario to our current one. At least they were just stupid and not cartoonishly evil.

      • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        It’s been said many times, but to say it a different way: the government and Camacho in Idiocracy were much much better, since they immediately elevated the smartest person they could find to a cabinet-level post and accepted help rather than just lied about the problem.

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      Don’t Look Up is more fitting as a documentary of our times. In lots of ways.

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        7 hours ago

        Fucking infuriating movie. Not because it’s bad, but because it is so fucking spot on about every single political issue in USA (and to a lesser extend, but still fitting, the rest of the world). I know it’s a metaphor for climate change, but every single political issue in USA is dealt with just as moronically as climate change.