If Idiocracy was made today, I wonder how far in the future they’d place it. In 2006, they thought 500 years which seems optimistic now.

▲ mattkevan 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We’re way beyond Idiocracy now, we left that timeline six years ago.

For all his flaws, Camacho was a good leader - he recognised there was a problem, knew he couldn’t fix it and actively rallied the world around the one person who could.

This bunch of dipshits expressly denigrated the experts, refused to take the slightest precaution to protect themselves and others from a deadly virus and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

And that’s not even thinking about the industrial levels of fuckery and bullshit they’ve perpetrated over the last year.

▲ jrumbut 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Camacho is aspirational at this point. I would have a lot of sympathy for someone trying to do the right thing but unaware what that is.

	▲	nyc_data_geek1 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Go away, 'batin'!

▲ antonvs 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Excess mortality in the US during the pandemic was around 1.2 million.

▲ ModernMech 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, people forget that in the early days of the pandemic, they were playing political games with PPE, sending it to red states with no population or cases, while NYC was running out of space in hospitals. It got so bad, RFK's grandson became a whistleblower because he was dismayed that he and other 20-somethings with no relevent experience were in charge of the government response.

  It "was like a family office meets organized crime, melded with Lord of the Flies," Kennedy said. "It was a government of chaos." Kennedy says was shocked that he and a dozen other twenty-somethings with no experience in the medical sector were tasked with procuring much-needed PPE for the country, using their personal laptops and email addresses. 

  "We were the team. We were the entire frontline team for the federal government." Kennedy added, "It was the number of people who show up to an after-school event, not to run the greatest crisis in a hundred years. It was such a mismatch of personnel. It was one of the largest mobilization problems ever. It was so unbelievably colossal and gargantuan. The fact that they didn’t want to get any more people was so upsetting." [1]

That kind of executive negligence and dereliction of duty absolutely cost lives.

What Kennedy described during COVID is now the entire government from top to bottom. DOJ, FBI, DOD, FEMA, DHS, ICE, NASA, USPS, SSA etc etc, rotting from the head.

[1]: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/robert-f-kennedys-grandson-w...

▲ mcmcmc 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It would literally just be a compilation of TikToks

▲ 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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▲ thereisnospork 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Future? I'm thinking a Borat style mockumentary in the present.

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scotty79 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I think it's the future of entertainment. Ruthlessly mocking idiots in power (and others). To be honest it's the present of some entertainment.

	▲	petre 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What's the use of mockery after they bombed a girls' school and killed at least 175 innocent people? I'd like to see the IRGC erased off the face of the Earth, but not like this. This is exponentially worse than Bush jr. reading a children's book on 9/11.