In Idiocracy they actually valued an intelligent person and wanted him to lead them. We're living through the prequel, we even have "ow, my balls" (jackass)
Also, Idiocracy is Baby's First Eugenics, with a large side dish of classist bullshit.
Seriously, everyone who likes that movie needs to go and watch it again without the rose tinted glasses. It's a movie about how "intelligence" (a basically unquantifiable concept) is 100% genetic, and if we let the stupid people (portrayed in the movie using visual signifiers of the working class rather than, say, wealthy idiots like the Winklevoss Twins) breed too much civilization will collapse. This is literally some Ayn Rand "the stupid poors will be helpless without smart billionaires to guide them" nonsense. It's Atlas Shrugged for stoned teenagers.
Do you want to know who was really, really into this idea that you needed to force more "smart" humans to have babies, for the good of civilization? Jeffery Epstein.
Another big fan? Elon Musk. That's why he has, like, seventeen kids, all sex selected to be male. He genuinely thinks he's improving the gene pool with his progeny.
Emperor Caligula planned to make his horse a consul. He also mocked the Praetorian guard, for example giving them watchwords which were intentionally insulting. It didn't work out well for him.
"Listen here, what we're gonna do is take our most awesome navy into the straight of hummus and then were gonna bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy, straight the boogie, and Iran drops the boogie"
I haven't seen idiocracy in a while, but do they ever talk about the world as a whole in that movie. Because it would be kind of funny if the world was thriving, while america just does idiocracy
Yup. It's on usa today and msn at least. Apparently they decided to spend a few tens of millions to fly kid rock and Hegseth around in apache helicopters.
How things have changed. My childhood best friend was my pastor's son and I remember him sneakily buying Kid Rock's "Devil Without A Cause" while on a church trip and hiding it because such music was considered demonic. Now Kid Rock is held up by the same people who populated my childhood church as an exemplar of conservative values or whatever? FOH
The image is real and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared it on social media. However, the caption claiming Kid Rock addressed the Strait of Hormuz was fabricated, originating in an X post from a user who has shared fictional and humorous content.
Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie participated in multiple troop touches with service members and filmed videos for Memorial Day, America's 250th birthday, and for his Freedom 250 tour. The visit provided an opportunity for Kid Rock to thank service members […] and recognize their continued sacrifice.
The more time goes on, the more I'm convinced the Mayans were right and the world really did end in 2012. Everything since has been a slow decent into absurdism.
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BCsven@lemmy.ca · 107 pts · 112d
Idiocracy
Asafum@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 112d
In Idiocracy they actually valued an intelligent person and wanted him to lead them. We're living through the prequel, we even have "ow, my balls" (jackass)
durably465@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 112d
They have reach the idiocracy years ago.
Right now they are far beyond this line, and the humankind don't have invented the word to describe this non existence of intelligence.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 112d
🧐
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 112d
Beautiful.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 112d
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
How is babby formed?
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 112d
🎩
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 5 pts · 112d
This is more than just being stupid its creating an actual philosophy and social movement that is ideologically opposed to intelligence as a concept.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 112d
They celebrate it, it's horrible
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 112d
Also, Idiocracy is Baby's First Eugenics, with a large side dish of classist bullshit.
Seriously, everyone who likes that movie needs to go and watch it again without the rose tinted glasses. It's a movie about how "intelligence" (a basically unquantifiable concept) is 100% genetic, and if we let the stupid people (portrayed in the movie using visual signifiers of the working class rather than, say, wealthy idiots like the Winklevoss Twins) breed too much civilization will collapse. This is literally some Ayn Rand "the stupid poors will be helpless without smart billionaires to guide them" nonsense. It's Atlas Shrugged for stoned teenagers.
Do you want to know who was really, really into this idea that you needed to force more "smart" humans to have babies, for the good of civilization? Jeffery Epstein.
Another big fan? Elon Musk. That's why he has, like, seventeen kids, all sex selected to be male. He genuinely thinks he's improving the gene pool with his progeny.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 19 pts · 112d
Don't Look Up.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 112d
Fully devolving into “random idiot’s opinion is better than expert analysis.”
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 112d
We're nearly at peak Idiocracy levels.
grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 112d
No we aren't. We're already past them.
JamieDub86@piefed.social · 7 pts · 112d
In the UK some politician said "we are tired of listening to experts" or something.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 112d
Might hurt their feelings when experts contradict them.
generic_computers@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 112d
I dunno, he seems like a pretty specific idiot.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 57 pts · 112d
This is insulting. Also, being forced to listen to Kid Rock speak on any topic is cruel and unusual punishment.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 112d
Remember that the whole room is operating under orders.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 112d
They should be lectured to by people with experience. Bring in Adult Rock.
bampop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 112d
Emperor Caligula planned to make his horse a consul. He also mocked the Praetorian guard, for example giving them watchwords which were intentionally insulting. It didn't work out well for him.
djdarren@piefed.social · 52 pts · 112d
Kid Rock looks like a man who's only allowed to see his kids every other weekend, but doesn't.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 112d
Idiocracy was better
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 7 pts · 112d
And not nearly as dumb
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 112d
"Listen here, what we're gonna do is take our most awesome navy into the straight of hummus and then were gonna bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy, straight the boogie, and Iran drops the boogie"
tomiant@piefed.social · 4 pts · 112d
He's overqualified for this position.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 112d
This is more an indictment of your high ranking officers than of the Trump administration.
Look at those cowardly, servile lapdogs sitting there allowing themselves to be addressed in the Pentagon by Kid Rock.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
I'd rather announce to the room that my explosive diarrhea is preventing me from attending and embarrassing myself than actually attending.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 112d
This world is post-satire. The Onion can close shop.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 111d
I wanna see what they do with Infowars now that they're buying it
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 112d
Surely this will make the military be willing to do a coup on trumps account
yakko@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 112d
I was kind of going they would do a coup against him.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 112d
i dunno. i'm thinking of all my friends who were the most into numetal, and they were the ones who enlisted.
yakko@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 112d
How many of them became generals?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 112d
one, space force. he's probably at the base, not the pentagon
yakko@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 112d
Aw maaan. I keep trying to forget space force exists, and I feel much better every time I succeed.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 112d
like, i get the point of it. i just feel like it should be a civilian agency and not military
yakko@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 112d
It really should. Nothing military should be allowed in space. Ideally nothing corporate either, while I'm dreaming.
SaintNectar@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 112d
Idiocracy is real.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 111d
I haven't seen idiocracy in a while, but do they ever talk about the world as a whole in that movie. Because it would be kind of funny if the world was thriving, while america just does idiocracy
arsCynic@piefed.social · 24 pts · 112d
Surely this must be fake.
joekar1990@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 112d
I wish it was....It's unfortunately real
tomiant@piefed.social · 6 pts · 112d
"Surely this is all fake?"
"No this is reality"
Is an experience I have every day.
arsCynic@piefed.social · 3 pts · 112d
That's it. The USA is dead in the water. Time to learn Mandarin.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 112d
And don't call me Shirley
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 24 pts · 112d
Is this real?
Fucin' hell if it is.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 112d
Yup. It's on usa today and msn at least. Apparently they decided to spend a few tens of millions to fly kid rock and Hegseth around in apache helicopters.
F'n disgrace
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 112d
It's real, and par for the course for fascists. They're very dangerous, but also very, very stupid.
West_of_West@piefed.social · 24 pts · 112d
I want some answers that Kid Rock may not have right now! WHERE'S JA RULE?
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 112d
Sorry all we have is J-ROC
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 112d
Nowhadimsayin'
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 112d
at this point, give us Ruby Rhod
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 112d
Naw'm sayin, mafacka?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 112d
I'm curious what advice Mr. Kid Rock had for the admirals and generals.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 14 pts · 112d
Bawa dibba dibba dibba doo waa. Or something.
ConsumptionOne@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 112d
Up jump da boogie.
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 112d
How to be a cowboy
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 112d
bay bay
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 111d
That's like me telling someone how to be a cat.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 111d
Prepare for war "all summer long"
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 3 pts · 112d
Unironically this.
huquad@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 112d
From the crowd that says they don't like when actors get political...
lobut@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 112d
It's just another game to these Hungry Hungry Hypocrites.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 111d
Jokes on you, I'm stealing that joke.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 19 pts · 112d
How things have changed. My childhood best friend was my pastor's son and I remember him sneakily buying Kid Rock's "Devil Without A Cause" while on a church trip and hiding it because such music was considered demonic. Now Kid Rock is held up by the same people who populated my childhood church as an exemplar of conservative values or whatever? FOH
8oow3291d@feddit.dk · 15 pts · 111d
From https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kid-rock-address-pentagon/
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 111d
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 111d
I think it just wasn't about the Straight in particular, though it may have been mentioned.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 111d
Strait, my friend — the straights are a different topic
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 111d
Are the straights ok?
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 111d
Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie participated in multiple troop touches with service members and filmed videos for Memorial Day, America's 250th birthday, and for his Freedom 250 tour. The visit provided an opportunity for Kid Rock to thank service members […] and recognize their continued sacrifice.
8oow3291d@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 111d
And I can't imagine those Generals would attend that talk, except to suck up to Trump/Hegseth.
So still looks really pathetic and bad. But Kid Rock probably didn't give them military advice about Hormuz.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 112d
What the fuck. How is this real?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
2/3rds of eligible voters in America allowed it.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 111d
If you include the non-voters, yes. If you're only counting trump voters, it's barely 1/3 of eligible voters.
Don't get me wrong, non-voters definitely share the blame. But let's not give credence to this idea that a majority of voters voted for trump.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 111d
I don't get this, any other meth head who is not kid rock would do a better job.
Janx@piefed.social · 10 pts · 112d
Corruption. He obviously has no business being there, let alone lecturing those in attendance.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 112d
yeah. uso has a long history. he needs to get back in his lane, which is running a carwash
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 112d
What goes through the minds of the audience I wonder...
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 112d
Tell me this didn't actually happen
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 33 pts · 112d
Ohh it happened, that really happened....
Directly from hegseths twitter.
CombatWombat@feddit.online · 13 pts · 112d
I regret to inform you it probably did: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/kid-rock-addressed-pentagon-strait-hormuz
Most US sources are focused on the helicopter ride, but the rest of the details seem to line up, so I’m filling this under: probably happened.
8oow3291d@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 111d
The claim is partially false. Kid Rock did address the Pentagon, but not on Hormuz.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kid-rock-address-pentagon/
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 112d
They are just getting him primed for Secretary of Defense
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 112d
I believe the term is "fluffed".
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 112d
I came here hoping for someone calling this out as AI slop....unfortunately, this is apparently real.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 112d
Another pedo and pedo protector in the Pentagon. WTF!?!?
Switorik@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 112d
What's sad is I can't tell if this is real or not.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 112d
Real, unfortunately
Switorik@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 112d
I don't even know how to respond. I feel like my country's leaders are playing cards against humanity and doing whatever they play.
yenahmik@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 111d
The more time goes on, the more I'm convinced the Mayans were right and the world really did end in 2012. Everything since has been a slow decent into absurdism.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 111d
tHaNkS, oBaMa!!1
eletes@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 112d
This has to be a distraction
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 112d
It is, and propaganda too.
Both badly done, but still done.
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 112d
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 111d
Isn't this against the Geneva convention?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 112d
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 111d
Also Dr. Phil, a proud immigrant genocide and Autistic murder supporter.
I wonder why they haven't also started genociding/deporting idiots... Oh wait... yeah that's why.