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"Was able to establish a wide broascast data link through the planetary communication system" is such a fancy way to say "got viral on a tik-tok livestream" which would be the most likely outcome

It's frustrating that the only thing unrealistic about this episode is that a riot would actually change anything

Because it's demonstrating the difference in time between the year the movie was created and the year the movie depicts.

The bar is from actual release year to setting year, that's why the left edges aren't aligned

Timeline would suck. The right side would be so far it would compress all the data.

Clearly this should be a pie chart.

Naw. We'll never get there. The idiots in Idiocracy were aware of their own stupidity, and the second they find someone smarter than everyone else, the people in power immediately step down to let him tackle their most pressing issues.

The idiots IRL think they're geniuses, and when the ones in power run into someone smarter than themselves, they run a smear campaign and/or incite violence against that person.

The future we're falling into is much darker than the one depicted in Idiocracy.

Takes at least two years to convince people Gatorade is better than water for plants.

Nah, we're never gonna get to idiocracy. The movie's premise rides on the idea that intelligence is a heritable trait, or a measurable quantity. It is more the case, I have observed, that people are idiots by necessity. You know, it's uhh, difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. It's pretty easy to just call everyone stupid, and then move on, but it's much harder to understand specifically why they're stupid.

I'm still waiting for that TV show where the guy says"I'd buy that for a dollar"

Yeah I think they did that to advance the plague in the story that allowed the dictator villain to take power.

The overlap and timeline is pretty fucking chilling considering how far right ideologies are starting to take hold globally again.

This seems like the most likely outcome at this rate. At least costco will have public transit.

Roughly right after Idiocracy I think.

Yeah but Connery's ponytail and harness thong.

This is a diverging bar chart sorted by the date in which the film was supposed to take place.

The vertical line on 2000 represents the "Distant Future, a new millennium" that a lot of sci-fi and dystopia media looked at in the past.

The left side of that bar represents the ~year the film was produced in our reality. This chart would make more sense if they included the production/release year of the film instead of an approximation on the condensed scale.

The right side of the bar represents the year that the film takes place.

Perhaps the author wanted to emphasize the movies that were way ahead of their time by charting this way...

Left bar is year of release, but is has to be an old graph (apart from the "you are here")because none of the movies are newer than year 2000.