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this is a point raised before on reddit and quora...as a staunch and passionate ally against eugenics, I'm curious for further elaboration and nuance on how a radical group like the eugenecists, having perhaps pointed out a demographic trend here or there that might overlap with themes from mainstream media, how does that make the mainstream media inherently eugenicist? Not saying it's wrong but I'm genuinely curious because I don't recall Idiocracy advocating anyone get sterilized or killed, which is the necessary conclusions of eugenicist radicals, who often use mainstream talking points to lure people in, so it's not super uncommon to find their talking points overlapping with themes from mainstream media...I'm 100% against eugenics but my take from that movie was like, be sure to have kids or adopt kids, and/or somehow leave a good legacy, not like, "People with bad test scores must be exterminated," so I'm curious to learn what I missed here.

I feel the need to periodically remind people that Idiocracy is a eugenics movie.

One of the things that eugenicists believe is that it is bad for society when the “wrong people” breed.

The entire premise of the movie is that “stupid people” kept having kids while “smart people” didn’t have kids, and it ruined society because stupid genes propagated while smart genes died out. This is eugenics propaganda.

I know people will read this and their response will be “actually it’s satire” but the movie isn’t satirizing eugenics. It’s satirizing anti-intellectualism, and consumerism, and it proposes eugenics as a solution.

When eugenics was first conceived, it was used as a way to justify inequality. The idea was that people who held privilege were able to do so because they were smarter and genetically superior to lazy and stupid people who don’t have privilege. Obviously this is bad and wrong, but it is also the core lesson of Idiocracy.

The movie literally ends with the main character becoming president and having “the smartest children in the world.” Because he and his wife have smarter genes than everyone else. The proposed solution for the things that Idiocracy is satirizing is for the smart people to have children that can be in charge of the world.

I know it’s fun to use this movie to dunk on anti-intellectualism and the MAGA movement, but we need to stop. When you quote and reference this movie you are spreading eugenics propaganda.

#Idiocracy breakdown #is it eugenecist? #some say it do be #not gonna front this is a TIL for me today

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art by Devin Vincent

#imagination in art #Devin Vincent #Background Series

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Y’all have heard of ring laser gyroscopes right? Actual little neon bulbs that do a physics experiment to determine exactly how much it’s being rotated.

Apparently they can’t measure low rotation speed due to the laser beams coupling to each other’s frequency. Their solution is to vibrate it with white noise so it never settles enough

Source has a bunch of lovely images

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marvelling at the un-bald independent nation of Alaska

Countries with most bald men in the world

#lmao

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epic dad joke from new mom

#dad joke treasure chest #been like 2 seconds and already with a dad joke #she's goated for that #zygoated

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i am violently clear [emphasis on the violent]

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Devin Vincent - Artist website

#artists on tumblr #Devin Vincent #amazing skill and imagination #perhaps a #solarpunk #slash #cyberpunk #desertpunk #hybrid scene #for a story #writers inspiration

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meanwhile, construction workers and industrial painters who literally do exactly all that every day without celebration:

abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

#modern art roasted #lol #that's literally just commercial painting #congrats you discovered commercial painting #lmao #modern art #klein does other stuff that is cooler #some museums are just thirsty clearly #next they'll take a picture of huggies and put it in the smithsonian #soup can ish #zero imagination all production #at least jackson pollock puts action and motion into his works #show me one flat color and it doesn't cross the bar as art if you've ever worked in industry or commerce #modern art is about a society that is inherently built on slavery and genocide running from the idea of nuance or detail #because every time they see nuance and detail they are reminded of the cultures they erased #so we have brutalism and 'modern art' dominating landscapes of art production and architecture #hideous excuses for art...proof it's a society built in a post-genocidal hurry to reconstruct #without time to imagine #just time to produce #no time to meditate on how this nation was built or the blood mixed into the foundations #art with imagination is out there...

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Students preparing for freshman orientation at the University of Nebraska

#lol #joke posts of tumblr

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The Fifth Element (1997)

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OK, but this was a fucking good one.

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why is 99.9% of our electricity used or wasted in the same moment? why can't we have energy storage infrastructure? our 'civilization' is weak

this is the result of a century of subsidized oil infrastructure but renewables don't get that investment comparatively or we'd see batteries available to store the excess energy from solar panels.

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Israeli forces have killed a record number of United Nations (UN) employees, making Gaza the deadliest place to be a UN worker in the 79-year history of the UN. Most of these workers were employees of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the largest humanitarian organization in Gaza.