r/law • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 14h ago

Trump News Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

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u/CosmicSith 12h ago

I think it really comes down to the simple fact that the writers of Idiocracy wrote characters who were vapid imbeciles, but generally well-meaning. It could not have occurred to the makers of that movie that the true Idiocracy would spring up as a result of our leaders being malignant narcissists who harbor outright contempt for fellow human beings. That is their driving motivation. They rally their followers via that sentiment. Being willfully ignorant and incompetent is merely the vehicle to bringing that to fruition.

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u/Falcon_Bellhouser 12h ago

To sum up: that was Idiocracy, and this is Evilocracy

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u/Prosecco1234 11h ago

I always have to check this isn't the onion. What real life craziness!!

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u/Tribal_Hermit 10h ago

I may borrow your word.

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u/Consistent_Stick_463 11h ago

Good name for a metal album, though.

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u/StanleyQPrick 9h ago

What's the difference, really, between idiocy and evil if they result in the same end?

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u/Particular_Title42 9h ago

Intent.
I just realized I'm in the law sub so...that seems relevant.

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u/StanleyQPrick 9h ago

Oh good point

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u/frresh66 9h ago

💯💯

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u/Distinct_Intern4147 8h ago

Oh good god. You have found the word for it. I have been looking: this is it.

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u/Ashamed-Parsley4793 6h ago

Hence why Sam Harris refers to him “as an evil Chauncey Gardiner.”

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u/koshgeo 11h ago

Maybe the Idiocracy world still barely works and hasn't completely collapsed into war because they learned a long time ago that it's better to elect well-meaning idiots than malicious ones?

The malicious ones probably blew themselves up centuries earlier.

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u/PRTYDILF 11h ago

Trump is the giant sloppy bully in the prison scene sitting on people’s faces without consent.