UFC to host first-ever fight event at the White House

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wyex9zd5o

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saltesc@lemmy.world · 93 pts · 1y (8 replies)

How is this not the Idiocracy timeline? I'd anything it feels like the pace of the "dumbing down" is too fast.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The president in Idiocracy sought the help of someone smart.

Y’all need to remember that and realize we are way past this movie.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

He could also form coherent sentences, was in Terry Crews-shape, and didn't shit himself once. We're already well into Idiocracy 2: Electric Boogaloo territory.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1y

and it was the AI assigning jobs to people too.

Wazowski@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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Zorque@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Yeah, there weren't leagues of malevolent rich assholes seeking to make the world worse for their own profits. Just a bunch of idiots who apparently forgot how to think.

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ignorant but willing to learn. And laugh about farts, not violence.

IIRC. Maybe I should re-watch it.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Don't forget the Dil-dozer!

MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 1y

Absolutely, idiocracy was too optimistic. In their version, it took 500 years to get there.

We'll be there in a generation, maybe 2. (If we have that many generations.)

Tramort@programming.dev · 53 pts · 1y (1 reply)

what about the Epstein files

kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1y

Trump/Epstein files*

SuchThunder@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Camacho would be such an improvement on reality nowadays...

superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 1y

Ya, at least he recognized there was someone out there smarter than him and brought him in as an advisor.

MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I hate how increasingly accurate this movie has become.

FaceDeer@fedia.io · 24 pts · 1y (3 replies)

As is usually pointed out, the similarities are not strong.

President Camacho actually wanted to help his people, hired the smartest person he could find, and listened to his advice.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And stepped down as President in the end to let someone else lead. For a better comparison of leadership now, look at Don't Look Up. Far more realistic in so many ways.

Mirshe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I'll also throw in Iron Sky.

Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 1y

The problem with that is the world has to get bad enough for President Camacho to help the world. We're in the Pre-Camacho era

Lumisal@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I literally saw a comment about a month ago on Lemmy saying "what's next, wrestling matches in the white house?" Or something like that.

Whoever you were, you fucking called it

Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y

They've been discussing this for the past couple of months at least though.

fubarx@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y

unknown@piefed.social · 28 pts · 1y

How tacky.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y

Release the Trump/Epstein files.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 1y

UFC to host first-ever fight event at the White(trash) House

Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

I'm so embarrassed to be associated with this country. I've only grown less and less patriotic as time goes by

Launch@piefed.social · 15 pts · 1y

We live in a joke of a country

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (3 replies)

President Camacho approves

YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

But we do have smart guy. Elon Musk will solve all our problems

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I just meant the MMA bit. He was a champion!

Unquote0270@programming.dev · 13 pts · 1y (5 replies)

How male and masculine.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

Trump must really have a huge penis eh?! What a big boy.

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Yeah, watching two ripped tattooed dudes wrestle in their underwear while inside a literal cage. Macho af

SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

My favorite thing is taking pictures of them grappling, then putting a black censor bar over the trunks so it looks like they're having sex. Turns out it's really really easy to make it look gay(er).

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

even without it, it still looks like they are going hardcore.

Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Probably just a coincidence that Paramount is purchasing UFC exclusive steaming rights in a seven year deal.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y

skydance a trumper, trying to save the dying stream industry, trying to get the conservative audience on board.

without TREK, and south park, Theres no reason to even have paramount.

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

When are these “Alpha Males” going to turn on the pedo in chief because they certainly look like a bunch of beta cucks right now

Hamlam282@piefed.social · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

UFC started to become fascist, absolutely ruinimg the sport. UFC In the facist house

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

We need more politically and philosophically astute sports.

bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Dana White at the inauguration was such a fever dream experience.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

his creation of trying to make the trashy SLAP-fighting a thing should tell you as much, he mustve seen the UFC is declining, and need a new grift.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y

its basically glorified bumfights, allegedly he doesnt pay most of his fighters well, unless they are the face of the company.

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y

Truly Dystopian

Ackshuly, isn't dystopia in the future? So, what is this then? Oh yeah, fascism.

Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Was the WWF (or whatever the criminal wrestling organization goes by these days) booked?

CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

This is the best thing Trump has done this term