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I thought living in the future meant we would all be super smart and know shit, not whatever the fuck this is.
Idiocracy wasn't a movie, it was a documentary sent here from the future.
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I thought living in the future meant people would understand how to use computers.
I was, uh, wrong.
Or printers.
They gave the wrong people access to a keyboard
Life will, uh, apparently not find a way after all.
Life is finding a way. Its about to be party time for the diseases that these vaccines would have prevented
People use phones just fine all the time.
It’s probally the most popular computer ever.
Probally is.
Do they, though? Yeah they can scroll, but that wasn’t really what I was thinking of.
it's politics.
politics makes people dumb and delusional
I don't think so, Tube Titties. There has been a lot of smart fucking politicians, and lots of solid fucking political movements.
I think it's money. Money has superseded democracy and rule of law. It's literally the only thing that matters. That is the problem.
money is politics.
Well, see, there's your problem right there. There is a distinction between what politics means and how it gets corrupted.
Like, in ancient Rome they made a decree that anyone hitting someone has to pay a $50 fine on the spot (or the fucking correlate amount of Sestertians), and one rich fuck went around in his sedan slapping people in the streets and have his posse pay the victim and then move on to the next one.
That's hardly "politics"- that's abuse and loopholing the law.
There is such a thing as just law, just politics, democracy and basic fucking human decency, and we can have it.
But rich fucks decided, what if we use our money to corrupt politics, so we can slap people in the face with impunity?
That's the problem. Money. Not politics itself.