[relativeadv]

It definitely activates something within people. Maybe I'm just terminally online, but there is always _always_ someone who will say "Idiocracy isn't satire, its a documentary."

[spiderfarmer]

And they're mostly correct.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

It's satire. It's effective satire because it's not all that much more extreme than the thing it's satirizing.

[wiseowise]

I don’t think that when people say “it’s a documentary” they mean that it’s literally a “documentary”, more like “this satire is so close to reality, that you can call it documentary”.

[_DeadFred_]

But we have a term for that and the term is "satire".