• Soulphite@reddthat.com
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        6 days ago

        Camacho definitely understood there was a problem, sought after someone much smarter to help solve it. Can’t say any politician today would be humbled to do something like that.

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      I’d honestly prefer that scenario to our current one. At least they were just stupid and not cartoonishly evil.

      • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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        It’s been said many times, but to say it a different way: the government and Camacho in Idiocracy were much much better, since they immediately elevated the smartest person they could find to a cabinet-level post and accepted help rather than just lied about the problem.

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      Don’t Look Up is more fitting as a documentary of our times. In lots of ways.