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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, it
by relativeadv 6mo ago
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."
- spiderfarmer 6mo agoAnd they're mostly correct.
- SAI_Peregrinus 6mo agoIt's satire. It's effective satire because it's not all that much more extreme than the thing it's satirizing.
- wiseowise 6mo agoI 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”.
- _DeadFred_ 6mo agoBut we have a term for that and the term is "satire".