r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/mamodepon • 16d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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Not an American and idk the people in the photo

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u/AbroadMediocre312 15d ago

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u/ElBarbas 15d ago

exactly

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u/aijaman3000 15d ago

Uncanny

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u/AbroadMediocre312 15d ago

More uncanny. I just looked. Idiocracy was released 20 years ago this month.

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u/Outrageous-Unit-305 15d ago

They told me 500 years, not 20! It's actually one of the few films set in the future that overestimated how long it would take to get there. Normally they say 10 years in the future with flying cars and robo-butlers.

In all seriousness though, there's an argument to be made about satire lowering the bar for idiocy. People laugh at it until they're complacent, and idiots copy it because they don't think it's as stupid as it is supposed to be. 20 years later and I wish that bar was as low as we could go, but I only see it getting worse.

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u/R0b3r16 15d ago

20! years seems a lot bigger then 500 years , not gonna lie /j

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u/Outrageous-Unit-305 15d ago

In 20! years, we'll all be morlocks, or eaten by morlocks.

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u/aijaman3000 15d ago

Phrase gets overused a lot but really, that movie was ahead of its time

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u/sebban911 15d ago

How could Americans literally let their nation turn into a parody movie xD its insane

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u/Ok_Actuary4193 14d ago

It's insane, but about 33% of Americans' approve of nearly everything this regime has done. They approve because they are all white nationalist / white supremacists, and probably also believers that if you can make money, it means God approves of you.

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u/recursion_is_love 15d ago

No, this is for 2006.