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Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by relativeadv on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:37AM (#47674354)
It definitely activates something within people. Maybe I'm just terminally online, but there is always _always_ someone who will say "Idiocracy isn't satire, its a documentary."
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Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by spiderfarmer on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:02AM (#47674667)
And they're mostly correct.
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Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:39AM (#47675222)
It's satire. It's effective satire because it's not all that much more extreme than the thing it's satirizing.
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Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by wiseowise on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:03PM (#47678294)
I don’t think that when people say “it’s a documentary” they mean that it’s literally a “documentary”, more like “this satire is so close to reality, that you can call it documentary”.
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Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by _DeadFred_ on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:32PM (#47679447)
But we have a term for that and the term is "satire".
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