I hate that movie and get upset whenever people act like our current foolishness is the same as the movie's stupidity. It's a motivated ideological rejection of reason, not a lack of ability.
Trump’s High Schooler ‘Patriot Games’ Draws ‘Hunger Games’ Comparisons
“In the fall, we will host the first-ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented four-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes — one young man and one young woman from each state and territory.”
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Ininewcrow@piefed.ca · 18 pts · 271d
We're working towards Idiocracy
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 270d
Nah those people were dumb obviously but they still had the wherewithal to put the smartest man alive in charge of fixing everything.
In our world they'd burn him at the stake for even thinking he was smarter
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 269d
I hate that movie and get upset whenever people act like our current foolishness is the same as the movie's stupidity. It's a motivated ideological rejection of reason, not a lack of ability.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 17 pts · 271d
I think of it in terms of the worst possible combination of Huxley and Orwell, but sadly this works equally well.
einlander@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 271d
Trump's working on the hunger games stuff.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/12/19/trumps-high-schooler-patriot-games-draws-hunger-games-comparisons/
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 271d
God, imagine if the Virgin Islanders win it.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 271d
ICE kidnapping and incarcerating/trafficking/disappearing brown people certainly makes it very V for Vendetta as well.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 271d
Fahrenheit 451, final answer.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 270d
It's HungerTale
Undertale's
::: spoiler spoiler Souless Genocide Ending where you starve to death in the purgatory then the universe reloads and you starve to death again :::