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      1. Saw someone referencing Idiocracy again, so I decided to finally look it up (since I haven't actually seen it yet), and came across this interesting take on it: salon.com/2016/03/05/idiocracys_curdled_politics_the_beloved_dystopian_comedy_is_really_a_celebration_of_eugenics_partner/
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      This portion of its Wikipedia article is interesting, too:
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    Trying to synthesize the two... I agree with the Salon article that eugenics are bad, but I also think offending advertisers is good... how do you offend advertisers without also making fun of the people who fall for them? I guess it'd basically just take some humility...
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      ...i.e., an admission that even smart people fall for advertisements. Which they do! And making comedy off of that could actually almost be funnier than mocking stupid people for being stupid, in a way...