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minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·5 months agoSay what you will about the guy, but he sure knows his constituency. “Are you subject to mass indoctrination? Vote for me! I’ll do all the things you want and end all the things you don’t.”
minus-squaredudinax@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 months agoIn 2016 he said “I will make all your dreams come true.” I thought “He’s really going only for stupid people.” Turns out that was enough.
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 months agoPeople like to think that humans as a whole are intelligent. The reality is about 80% of us are barely above a dog in intelligence meanwhile the other 20% are desperately holding the other 80% on their shoulders because empathy is a thing for them.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoRead “The Marching Morons” by C. M. Kornbluth. The novella that "Idiocracy’ was based on. Much darker than the movie. Much, much darker.
Just like the bible!
Say what you will about the guy, but he sure knows his constituency.
“Are you subject to mass indoctrination? Vote for me! I’ll do all the things you want and end all the things you don’t.”
In 2016 he said “I will make all your dreams come true.”
I thought “He’s really going only for stupid people.” Turns out that was enough.
People like to think that humans as a whole are intelligent.
The reality is about 80% of us are barely above a dog in intelligence meanwhile the other 20% are desperately holding the other 80% on their shoulders because empathy is a thing for them.
Read “The Marching Morons” by C. M. Kornbluth. The novella that "Idiocracy’ was based on. Much darker than the movie. Much, much darker.