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[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Ignoring the blatant eugenics of the very first scene, I'd rather live in the idiocracy world because at least the president with all of his machismo and grandstanding was still humble enough to put the smartest guy in the room in charge of actually getting plants to grow.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

My take away from that was the poorly educated had more kids.

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Giving the benefit of the doubt I can see that reading but it definitely implied that stupidity is genetic because of how big the stupid people family tree gets and the scifi story it was based on was a looooot more explicit with the eugenics of the story.

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