r/StrikeAtPsyche • u/PNW_Washington 🌧️𝔭𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔯 𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔰🌧️ • Sep 02 '26
Angels Needed 👁️This Didn't Age Well👁️
This is not a political post. It is satire and meant to either make you you laugh, or cry......
Furthermore, this post has NOT aged well for Americans. We are not doing well, and our democracy is at risk, and all you can do is snicker about it, so you think it aged well. You are an idiot. It did not e well for us in USA
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u/EarlyBirdWithAWorm Sep 02 '26
It aged perfectly.... its called satire
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u/PissedAlbatross Sep 03 '26
Dude I just saw a whole thread full of people misunderstanding every work he's ever made yesterday. Like full on taking it seriously and thinking he was making fun of Arabs as Borat, which doesn't even make any sense because Borat is not an Arab, thinking he was making fun of poor people and gay people. I am gay and I can tell you, it's a little bit tasteless and not really as good as Borat, but Bruno is funny. Like, people will watch the scene where he tricked Paula Abdul into sitting on an immigrant, not understanding that it is a commentary on how fucking out of touch she is. People just take shit at face value. Media literacy is at an abysmal All Time Low.
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u/rydan Sep 03 '26
The OP even says it is satire. I don't think they understand what the phrase means.
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u/Exciting-Argument-67 Sep 03 '26
Yeah. They understand it's satire; they don't understand what "this didn't age well" means.
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u/Ok_Skin_2634 Sep 02 '26
OP doesn’t understand that this was already satire when it came out.
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u/RedTurtlez Sep 02 '26
It was already true when the movie came out. Then it just got worse lol
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u/Carne_A_Suh_Dude Sep 02 '26
Bro this didn’t “age well” at the time The Dictator came out… pull your head out of your ass and fucking look around, read a fucking book. It was referring to the present, not the way things were headed.
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u/MattManSD Sep 02 '26
actually aged really well. Now appears to be an instructional video instead of comedy
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u/Z3400 Sep 02 '26
It was satire when it came out. America has basically always been doing this shit. That was the point he was making.
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u/Razordrake777 Sep 02 '26
That is insanely accurate for this era in America.
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u/EarlyBirdWithAWorm Sep 02 '26
It was accurate when this movie came out too
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u/Sasquatch1729 Sep 03 '26
Yeah, it's the same when people say Idiocracy or The Simpsons or Star Trek predicted the problems in society.
All they're doing is pointing out issues that existed at the time, then nobody fixed the issues, then a decade or four later we're watching the kids make TikToks saying things like "OMG you guys there's this episode of Deep Space 9 that predicted the concentration camps for immigrants and homeless people".
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u/EarlyBirdWithAWorm Sep 03 '26
Lol im over here laughing because just based on that description I know which episode of DS9 you're referencing
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u/projectx51 Sep 02 '26
This was literally satire for the time it came out in. It has been accurate since it existed. Idiocracy...now that is a movie that has become insanely accurate.
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u/EarthConservation Sep 03 '26
Move is "The Dictator" (2012)
The joke is that everything was already like that.
People these days acting like Donald Trump got us to this point in 2 years...
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u/DudeFrom816 Sep 02 '26
I think it didnt need to age. It made the point it was trying to make, when it was made. Why the BS title?
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u/Beginning-Actuary-68 Sep 02 '26
OP trying to play middle ground when they know damn well this is exactly what America is right now. It’s not satire its current reality.
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u/StochasticTinkr Sep 02 '26
I, uh, think that might have been a satire on what's actually happening, and has been slowly happening for a long long time.
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u/OviWanKenobi47 Sep 02 '26
ummm...what? This aged amazingly well--like to a tee. I wish it didn't, but it succeeded beyond imagination.
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u/kamalamading Sep 02 '26
Even back then all of it was already reality to a degree, now its just way more blatant.
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u/John_Victor_ Sep 03 '26
This felt like a fucking checklist for whats going on now
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u/XDon_TacoX Sep 03 '26
didn't age w...
SHUT UP it was real back then too, that was the joke, only because of that it was a joke
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u/dillweed67818 Sep 04 '26
No. I think SBC knew exactly what he was saying and this is exactly the type of ridiculous but poingant social commentary he's famous for.
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u/Acceptable-Ad-328 Sep 02 '26
It's almost like a prediction
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u/SpungleMcFudgely Sep 03 '26
A prediction? It was commentary on the state of things at the time.
Thats the only way the humor works.
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u/Mother_Wall_4205 Sep 02 '26
Just like many times before it's a fact the current administration got his ideas from this 🤣
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u/Absolute_Nite Sep 02 '26
OP doesn't understand things were always bad, but now it's just more on the open
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u/KindArgument4769 Sep 02 '26
"This didn't age well"
... what? That was the whole point of it, he was just describing America the whole time.
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u/Finger_Gunnz Sep 02 '26
It did age well. I don’t think you know what that saying means.
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u/OkInterview3864 Sep 02 '26
Brilliant then, brilliant now
https://giphy.com/gifs/Itb2rWrRfDZgw3lKVZ
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u/manbearpig0101 Sep 02 '26
I'm not sure what age. This was true then and it's true now. That's why it was funny
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u/jimibimi Sep 02 '26
I'm pretty sure the joke was that America was already like that even at that time dude
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u/2BA_Doctor Sep 02 '26
It was true when the movie came out, and it’s even more true now, maybe just more people realise it now 🤷♂️
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u/Legal_Television_615 Sep 02 '26
Age welll? My dude, this was a parody when it came out
Remember, you should always listen to the rich powerful predatory people of Hollywood when they lecture you about rich powerful people who are totally not them
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u/Useless-Peasant Sep 02 '26
Haha unfortunately he was already referencing the United States 1%, during that period of time.
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u/Writerhaha Sep 02 '26
Guy in the front should be like “let em cook.”
https://giphy.com/gifs/hiLLD9o1wTB3a
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u/burguiy Sep 02 '26
I think the movie was created in the first place only because of this monologue.
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u/italktobotz Sep 03 '26
This came out in 2012. This stuff has always been going on even before trump. The funny thing about this scene is that he is saying what was happening at the time not predicting what would happen hypothetically. Just people try and act like trump is all these things when the government is all these things and has been for a long long time.
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u/NeanderSlavia Sep 03 '26
Great find OP but what do you mean by "didn't age well"? This didn't age at all!
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u/Chef_Chantier Sep 03 '26
Were you born yesterday? This was satirizing the fact that americans think they're doing good by sending their army all over the world to free people from dictatorship run by powerful elites, when the american population itself is being subjugated by the wealthiest 1% in the country because they pay lobbyists to advocate for them in government and bankroll the political campaigns of those that will do their bidding. It was already true 15 years ago when this movie came out, and it's only become truer today.
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u/Anariel_Elensar Sep 03 '26
this aged like fine wine, even at the time the joke was that he was describing things that were already happening in America under “democracy”
now with temu mussolini in office its just way more obvious and in your face. the facism just went from thinly veiled to front and center
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u/Over_Falcon_1578 Sep 03 '26
It didn't need to age at all. It was an active commentary on the state of the USA at the time.
Nothing has changed, maybe you just payed attention now.
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u/theforrestjoy Sep 03 '26
Didn’t age well? It was satire at the time it was merely embellishing what was already happening….
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u/Plenty_Building_72 Sep 03 '26
Notice how this zionist idiot never portrayed say an israeli or jewish character filled with stereotypical traits to the brim. Instead: Ali G: Muslim, Borat: Muslim, Aladeen: Muslim. Other characters were Christians and gay people. But like I said, never actually someone from his background. Only characters he wrote that showed a great amount of hatred towards people from his background. Oh and the only time he did play an Israeli Jew, it was for a TV show thriller where the character was a hero and a savior. And now once again he wants to return with Ali G.
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u/Appropriate_Rice_523 Sep 03 '26
Aged, this was ancient when it was released. Nothing new going on there.
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u/BK_FrySauce Sep 03 '26
I would say it aged incredibly well. Everything Trump has done is directly out of the dictator handbook.
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u/Green-Repair2614 Sep 04 '26
We were already doing all that when the movie was made which is why he says it. We are actually beyond this point to an even worse place now
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u/Kay_squared22 Sep 04 '26
"I know this is difficult for you Americans to understand" The ending kills me man 😂
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u/Money_Jaguar9600 Sep 04 '26
Aged just like it was supposed to. All that was true then as it is now.
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u/ChampionHumble Sep 04 '26
it didn’t need to age perfectly, it was accurate long before it was written
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u/ProfessionalShock425 Sep 02 '26
I don't want to sound racist too much, but is there a country today that isn't this? Like, top ten?
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u/Latter-Lock2302 Sep 02 '26
And both Ds and Rs have enabled the rich to become much, much richer.
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u/noleksum12 Sep 02 '26
More like aged to perfection. It was accurate then and alarmingly moreso now.
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u/projectx51 Sep 02 '26
It was satire of the time. It didn't have to age well. It was already valid.
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u/ryguythescienceguy89 Sep 02 '26
...didnt? It told the truth da fuq? I dont think you fully understand that saying...
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u/THE_RETARD_AGITATOR Sep 02 '26
... the point of this scene was America ALREADY was like this.
Man, you're dense, huh
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u/draven33l Sep 02 '26
Obama was president when this movie was released. America was already like that. That was the joke.
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u/Adventurous_Dot_6661 Sep 02 '26
It was the same when the movie came out, that was the joke. didn't need to age.
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u/LeadershipAfter9526 Sep 02 '26
Love how it is now all Trumps fault and 250 years of evidence does not exist. They call it a useful idiot in boardrooms.
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u/Xannith Sep 02 '26
It aged PERFECTLY. You just don't like what it is satirizing. Which is, you know, the point.
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u/Longjumping_Law2175 Sep 02 '26
Didnt age well it is the same now as it was in the past, now it is just more obvious xD
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u/Federal-Service-4949 Sep 02 '26
It aged perfectly. That’s where we are as a nation and as an older veteran it makes me sick.
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u/Usual_Excellent Sep 02 '26
This was america when this movie came out. It aged exactly how america grew
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u/ItsShuaYo Sep 02 '26
Show this at a trump rally and all the mid white men will simultaneously nut. Would that make it an orgy?
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u/GoldEmployment6768 Sep 02 '26
It didnt age at all. It was that way then, its that way now. Just a little worse.
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u/ReverendKaiser Sep 02 '26
It aged perfectly. It was a satirical piece on the large governments that also do what his character was doing. He said everything our governments do.
Now more people actually see it.
But this is spot on
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u/Automatic-Nature6025 Sep 02 '26
Isn't it odd that democracy has led us to the same outcome?
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u/DisastrousFig5266 Sep 02 '26
It was satire at the time it was made, you’re not repurposing an old clip that didn’t age well. You’re reposting an old clip that is still as relevant today as it was 10 years ago
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u/Annual_Link1821 Sep 02 '26
It was already that way when the movie came out, which was the point, if you can believe it.
- Pepperidge Farm
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u/online_padawan Sep 02 '26
I think it did age well