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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

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    It’s been a while since I watched idiocracy, but from recollection, it imagined a nation that had:

    • aptitude testing systems that worked
    • a president people liked
    • a relaxed attitude to sex and sex work
    • someone getting a top government job for reasons other than wealth or fame
    • a straightforward fix for an ecological catastrophe caused by corporate stupidity being applied and accepted
    • health and social care sufficient for people to have families as large as they’d like, and an economy that supported those large families

    and for some reason people keep referring to it as a dystopia…

    eta

    Ooh, and everyone hasn’t been killed by war, famine, climate change (welcome to the horsemen, ceecee!) or plague, but humanity is in fact thriving! And even still maintaining a complex technological society after 500 years!

    Idiocracy is clearly implausible utopian hopepunk nonsense.