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iT's a doCuMentArY! It's a film that was intended as a joke, and uses Eugenics as its premise. Yes, the Internet has made idiots louder, but it has also helped

by Leires 2y ago

iT's a doCuMentArY! It's a film that was intended as a joke, and uses Eugenics as its premise. Yes, the Internet has made idiots louder, but it has also helped intelligent people become smarter. The next 4 years will be like the last 8, minus the pandemic.

drawkward 2y ago
>uses Eugenics as its premise Uh, false?
- lambaro 2y ago
  there's an implied (if tongue-in-cheek) pro-eugenics message, since the premise is rooted in dysgenics being a real problem
  - drawkward 2y ago
    How you go from "smart people should reproduce more" to "cull the population of the unfavorable" is on you, but thats certainly not the conclusion I would draw.
    - jpadkins 2y ago
      eugenics != "cull the population of the unfavorable" eugenics includes positions like "unfavorable should reproduce less than the favorable"
ornornor 2y ago
There is no eugenics in that movie?
- deltaburnt 2y ago
  I like the movie a lot, but the beginning is a little problematic from a modern viewing iirc. It discusses how the poor and uneducated produce more kids than the higher classes, thus a dumb population after many generations. Factually true about the correlation between higher standard of living and having fewer kids. However, that exact discussion has been used as a dog whistle against other "undesirable" groups in the past. The movie's beginning implies it would be better if we decide who gets to have kids. Overall a great movie, but I think that part has aged poorly.
  - s1artibartfast 2y ago
    I don't think you have to draw that specific implication. Given that the phenomenon is essentially real, what do you think that means? Is reality problematic?
    - llamaimperative 2y ago
      > Is reality problematic? Look around! I'd say so! :)
ziddoap 2y ago
>The next 4 years will be like the last 8, minus the pandemic. Yes, calls to takeover ally countries and releasing a presidential cryptocurrency really remind me of the last 8 years.
- hedora 2y ago
  Speaking of inscrutable nonsense that antagonizes ally countries: I’m still pissed off about the Canadian lumber tariffs.
- 3vidence 2y ago
  My brain struggles to understand how people can see how Trump is operating and think it is "normal". What has happened to Americans??
hedora 2y ago
Don’t worry, Trump will get us another pandemic. We still haven’t restored the part of the US federal government that stopped SARSv1 (they operated out of China and other countries with the cooperation of local authorities). Trump disbanded them before SARSv2 (aka COVID-19), so they weren’t around to respond to it. Also, we’re still funding the biological weapons research programs that almost certainly created COVID (according to documents from multiple departments in the Biden administration). On top of all that, RFK’s trying to switch everyone to raw milk in the middle of a bird/cow flu pandemic. That creates a new disease transmission vector that’ll probably help it cross to humans.

by Leires 2y ago

drawkward 2y ago

>uses Eugenics as its premise Uh, false?

lambaro 2y ago
there's an implied (if tongue-in-cheek) pro-eugenics message, since the premise is rooted in dysgenics being a real problem
- drawkward 2y ago
  How you go from "smart people should reproduce more" to "cull the population of the unfavorable" is on you, but thats certainly not the conclusion I would draw.
  - jpadkins 2y ago
    eugenics != "cull the population of the unfavorable" eugenics includes positions like "unfavorable should reproduce less than the favorable"

ornornor 2y ago

There is no eugenics in that movie?

deltaburnt 2y ago
I like the movie a lot, but the beginning is a little problematic from a modern viewing iirc. It discusses how the poor and uneducated produce more kids than the higher classes, thus a dumb population after many generations. Factually true about the correlation between higher standard of living and having fewer kids. However, that exact discussion has been used as a dog whistle against other "undesirable" groups in the past. The movie's beginning implies it would be better if we decide who gets to have kids. Overall a great movie, but I think that part has aged poorly.
- s1artibartfast 2y ago
  I don't think you have to draw that specific implication. Given that the phenomenon is essentially real, what do you think that means? Is reality problematic?
  - llamaimperative 2y ago
    > Is reality problematic? Look around! I'd say so! :)

ziddoap 2y ago

>The next 4 years will be like the last 8, minus the pandemic. Yes, calls to takeover ally countries and releasing a presidential cryptocurrency really remind me of the last 8 years.

hedora 2y ago
Speaking of inscrutable nonsense that antagonizes ally countries: I’m still pissed off about the Canadian lumber tariffs.
3vidence 2y ago
My brain struggles to understand how people can see how Trump is operating and think it is "normal". What has happened to Americans??

hedora 2y ago

Don’t worry, Trump will get us another pandemic. We still haven’t restored the part of the US federal government that stopped SARSv1 (they operated out of China and other countries with the cooperation of local authorities). Trump disbanded them before SARSv2 (aka COVID-19), so they weren’t around to respond to it. Also, we’re still funding the biological weapons research programs that almost certainly created COVID (according to documents from multiple departments in the Biden administration). On top of all that, RFK’s trying to switch everyone to raw milk in the middle of a bird/cow flu pandemic. That creates a new disease transmission vector that’ll probably help it cross to humans.