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by rasz 1653 days ago
Idiocracy was a prophecy all along. Next years plan is to throw in a little bit of Running Man by equipping teachers with hockey sticks to beat the competition.
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I thought of Idiocracy as well today, for another reason. I saw on instagram a video of a groom holding a bride in his arms over a mud puddle for a photoshoot. At some point the groom tripped and dropped the bride in the mud: she started screaming and crying. The video was clearly staged. It made me thing of "Ow! My balls". Somehow, ragebait is even worse than sophomoric humour.
That’s one of the best dystopian movies out there with the Terminator. Shows how the elite critics are often wrong in long term prognosis.
I'm pretty sure people were posting "Climbing for Dollars" on Twitter in response to this