This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum.

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By episode 6 I was on their side lol. When they steered away from violence and won over the public I was like ok I can get on board with this.

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Nah. The existence of evolution in no way validates your pseudo-science racism. Billions of years of natural selection doesn't equate to your garbage notion that "certain people" shouldn't procreate.

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Wow, you're right, it IS like Revelations!

Possibly linux

Honestly the world is much better than it was.

For instance, around 140 million people were killed in WWI and WWII.

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IIRC, the movie had no eugenics component. You appear to be conflating the concept of "darwinism" (natural selection) with the concept of "eugenics".

The concept of "reproductive rights" allows for individuals to make their own selections for themselves and their offspirng; those choices do not constitute "eugenics" until they are imposed in another.

If the state is not applying selective pressure, it is not eugenics.

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Wasn't The Book of Revelation just an acid, fever dream fanfic about Nero coming back from the dead? Kinda not relevant.

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Ooh the guy from Dark Matter is in this? I'll have to watch it now.

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In some ways I think they always were about non-violence. Kagami clearly only resorted to the bombing when they had nothing else to lose. The female leader (Sonia I think her name was) was on that side of things as well, while Roger Cross' character (I think his name was Travis?) was the militaristic one.

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Yeah, but he's mean in Continuum lol

Hemingways_Shotgun

That's correct. It IS better than it was. And it's important to KEEP it that way. But in case you haven't noticed, world history is following pretty much the exact same path beat-for-beat that it did in the lead up to that war that cost 140 million lives.

It's not whether we are better off than we were in the past. It's a question of whether or not we're going to stay that way. Because the next world war might claim a billion or more. (exaggerating for effect of course)

Ech

I'm aware. Feel free to read my entire comment.

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It's all Patrick Duffy's dream, or that Canadian kid in a coma, or maybe the windfish

Hemingways_Shotgun

Kazinsky probably "killed himself" because he took a look at the world of 2023 and realized that no one listened to a single word he said.

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It's Tommy Westphall's world. We're just living in it.

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"Killed himself" by Mark Zuck, that's it!

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Yeah, and I hate to say it but in some cases you need violence to make any change. You can protest the companies all you want 24/7 but they'll just ignore you and keep doing what that want. The BLM protests resorted to this because "no one was listening to us and we keep dying". It's not the best solution but what else is there.

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I realize I'll get downvoted to hell for saying it, but IMO anyone who says that non-violence works every time is naive.

The French didn't gain anything until the guillotines started rolling. America didn't get their freedom until they started fighting back. British/Portuguese/French Colonialism in Africa didn't come to an end until the locals started rioting and in some cases flat out starting revolutions.

Anyone who says violence never solved anything hasn't been paying attention to ANYTHING in history EVER.

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Are you sure about that? Look who just got elected president of the US again.

You also have that stupid movement where liberal women are withholding sex as a protest. Sounds an awful lot like the beginning of Idiocracy to me.

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The eugenics component of the movie

Don't do drugs, it's bad for you. You remembered the wrong movie.

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There is though, there's a whole scene about poor=dumb and horny vs rich=smart and chaste. It's very easy to forget since it doesn't solidly tie in as much as the producers may have hoped