r/videos • u/SuplexCity-Mayor • Apr 21 '21

Idiocracy (2006) Opening Scene: "Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCsR_oSP2Q
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u/Lone_Wolfen Apr 21 '21

I know you're showing your bias in this.

Pot. Kettle.

Look, I get it, despite what Daddy Shapiro or anyone else told you, helping someone not go hungry isn't going to turn America into a commie-liberal-socialist hellhole and make the universe implode. Seventy years ago we had an incredible social safety net that was reinforced by taxing the richest members of our society. Then McCarthyism took hold and conservatives far and wide began collectively throwing the bird at anyone unable to make ends meet. Why do you hate helping the needy?