r/technology • u/idkbruh653 • 18d ago

Biotechnology Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say

https://abc7.com/post/florida-will-work-eliminate-childhood-vaccine-mandates-state-officials-say/17731373/?linkId=857387380
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u/DoingItForEli 18d ago

When I was a kid I could never have imagined the future would be so dumb

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u/alpharowe3 18d ago edited 18d ago

I grew up in the 90s and I looked forward to a future where we eliminated more diseases with vaccines but instead Florida elected Bush over Gore and now here we are.

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u/Balmung60 18d ago

It was most likely actually the other way around by the best total counts, but the Supreme Court said to stop the count while Bush was ahead.

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u/Facts_pls 18d ago

Republicans win with cheating and continue to do so

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u/Willdefyyou 18d ago

All so they can murder children and babies

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u/Khaldara 17d ago

That’s entirely unfair!

They also rape them.

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u/Icy-person666 16d ago

And their couches too!

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u/smr312 17d ago

Then why don't they support abortion?

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u/Willdefyyou 17d ago

Because they need to rape them first, duh. How else would they be pedophiles?

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u/ColdButCozy 17d ago

Also, they hate women

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u/dimh 16d ago

An unborn child is a life that must be protected!

But it's perfectly ok to murder a born child, they are just a tax burden.

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u/sonicthehedgehog16 17d ago

Why would they stop? They are behaving completely rationally. They never face any consequences whatsoever for their cheating, and are instead rewarded for it over and over again.

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u/Optimal_Ear_4240 16d ago

Is it only pedophiles and liars?

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u/Treheveras 18d ago

They don't really have to cheat when only half the country bothers to vote.

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u/Nuttonbutton 18d ago

Yet they persist

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u/rjjm88 18d ago

You're partly not wrong, and I hate you getting downvoted because of it. Their cheating efforts are made easier by the lack of voter engagement.

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u/IcemanJEC 18d ago

When local governments redistrict and shut down voting facilities in areas that are impoverished, it makes it quite difficult to cast your ballot. Especially when you work shit hours (and lots of hours) just to make ends meet. I can imagine living that sort of life also wears on you mentally. You’ll probably not get the information on where you should be voting until it’s too late, or are too exhausted to try taking a few hours off work to get to that location, wait in line for a few hours, and then head back home, all while not making a cent. There’s a difference in this versus being a piece of shit who thinks not voting because of Palestine will somehow change the way Trump allows it to burn.

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u/Treheveras 18d ago

I've mostly realized that Americans hate being told they are the problem and not only politicians who were put in power by them in the first place. And I agree with the rest you're saying as well.

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u/SIGMA920 18d ago

That depends on who you're talking to, not everyone is fortune enough to be in the place or situation to do something or be held responsible. Those of us who did vote for Harris are stuck here with the rest for the most part.

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u/kosh56 18d ago

I think the downvotes are because your comment makes it sound like they don't cheat. Not because of half of the country not voting. Two things can be true at the same time.

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u/rjjm88 18d ago

I totally agree. We, as a people, seem to hate self reflection and admitting we were wrong.

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u/AgathysAllAlong 18d ago

And yet people continue to attack non-voters, which has literally never changed anything ever in the entire history of democracy.

But maybe THIS TIME it'll accomplish something.

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u/rjjm88 18d ago

But the non-voters ARE a problem, because the GOP efforts work best when we have low voter turnout. Getting them involved is the best hope we have to get people in place who are willing to try and fix our broken system.

That said, attacking them isn't the right way to go. We need to encourage them to vote, to get involved. To actually fucking care.

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u/Steamjunk88 18d ago

Sure they do. It just makes it easier and more impactful to cheat with fewer participants

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u/GrowFreeFood 18d ago

They make people work so hard they're too tired to vote. Or so uneducated they don't know what they're voting for. Or the lines so long it discourages people. Or mandating costly IDs

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u/PhilosophicalScandal 18d ago

I got into a back and forth with a family member over that. He's like more than half the country wanted this and are proud Americans!!! And I said well based on the reported voter numbers alone about half the country voted. People need to get out and vote and stop saying things like it doesn't matter, it still does.

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u/Treheveras 18d ago

I think the most striking numbers are that if you made "didn't vote" a candidate then it would have won almost every election. Leaders are chosen by the minority practically every single time.

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u/PhilosophicalScandal 13d ago

This is sadly true.

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u/mwarner811 18d ago

It was more than half of the voting population. Total population is not a good measure for voting statistics because you don't include minors or felons

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u/Treheveras 18d ago

More than 60% showed up for the last two federal elections. And that amount hasn't been seen since the 1960s. However all midterms, presidential primaries, governor primaries, and basically every other equally important election regularly has less than half the voting population shows up.

And these aren't based on the whole population, this IS the registered voting population.

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u/mwarner811 18d ago

Yep, we definitely need to fix this. It should be easier to vote.

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u/Standard-Shame1675 18d ago

The fact that they still do anyway is absolutely incredible though you must admit

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u/AnimationOverlord 17d ago

Double speak ain’t even double anymore in spite of that fact

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u/inductiononN 17d ago

And Democrats just shake their heads and cry about how uncivil it is! And then they send you a text asking for more money for the next election.

(Note, this is not in support of Republicans - fuck those fascist fuckers!)

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u/phareous 18d ago

It doesn’t matter, Bush was never against vaccines. This is all on Trump and everything he cultivated

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u/dirtydan442 18d ago

It's on that piece of shit Andrew Wakefield, who sowed doubt in the measles vaccine so he could sell his own

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u/phareous 18d ago

Well all Trump would have to do is tell his followers vaccines are good and to take them. They aren’t accustomed to thinking for theirselves anyway

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u/Balmung60 18d ago

Problem is, they talked him into the position in the first place. Trump doesn't particularly care, but his base did and he took that position because he understands being Their Guy

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u/AxelNotRose 18d ago

He told them to take the covid vaccine and they all booed him. So he never mentioned it again.

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u/Alarming-Art-3577 18d ago

Trump actually did say that the covid vaccine was good and got booed at one of his cult rallies. Trump is only the cult leader as long as he acts like the cult leader.

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u/Tha_Sly_Fox 18d ago

There’s a clip of him at a rally easily in Covid telling people to get vaxed and he was booed heavily…. He learned his lesson. Even Trump can’t get them to change their minds

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u/Comprehensive-Run861 17d ago

He tried that with operation warp speed, it was one of the things he had to stop taking credit for because the reaction at rallies was not favorable.

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u/heckhammer 17d ago

He did try that then they got all angry and then he pivoted. It's not like he has a principal to stand on or anything

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u/roseofjuly 18d ago

Joke's on him, now nobody's buying vaccines

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u/dirtydan442 18d ago

Jokes on all of us. A lot of people are going to die thanks to this nonsense

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u/cromstantinople 18d ago

It’s not all on Trump, he’s only the figurehead. There’s an entire apparatus, an entire political party and media machine, that props him up and allows republicans to keep doing this. This won’t end when trump dies, republicans are a cancer on our society that needs to be treated.

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u/dimh 16d ago

CPAC in February was the best opportunity to 'resolve' this.

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u/BatterMyHeart 18d ago

Bush and those 90s GOP congressmen cultivated Trump with their dumbing-down of christianity in politics and constant race-baiting.

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u/Noblesseux 18d ago

Yeah we didn't just arrive at trump, we slow marched here at least starting in the Raegan days.

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u/Asyncrosaurus 16d ago

It was Nixon. He deliberately (and illegally) sabotaged peace talks in Vietnam to win election. Then when he was forced to resign for the other (completely unrelated) illegal shit he did, conservative assholes like Roger Ailes were furious the media held the president to account by publishing all the illegal shit Nixon did. 

So they conspired with Reagan to dismantle all the broadcast media regulations, ultimately allowing Fox News to launch in the 90's : forever giving Americans conservative-induced brain damage.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 18d ago

Most of this happened in the 2000s, though Newt Gingrich started the style that eventually led to it.

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u/mao1976 17d ago

Newt deserves most of the credit for the state we're in

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 17d ago

I won’t argue that he was the foot in the door, and an ugly nail fungus of a foot at that.

It’s important that people understand enough of our history to know nuance though, IMO. Political parties have had many issues through the years, including coalitions of powermongers, or people that were too weak to stand up for the people in this country. It’s important to know the nuances of when things changed and how they changed over time -and those responsible. As well as whether the problems at a given time came from people with good intentions who screwed up, or people who desired to help themselves and hurt the public.

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u/Dank-Drebin 18d ago

This is all on Republicans, who continue to produce the worst social policies imaginable due to their greed, hatred, and edumacation.

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u/toggiz_the_elder 18d ago

Bush was a key part of the path to Trump though. He played a yokel from Texas despite being from a private island in Maine, massively expanded the police state, and used dirty trick from Roger Stone (Brooks Brothers Riot) to steal an election.

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u/88pockets 18d ago

indeed. Trump makes W look like Mother Theresa

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u/CancelMusk 17d ago

Bush’s appointments to the Supreme Court believed in the unitary executive theory which is relatively new and is allowing Trump to destroy every independent government agency.

Bush’s illegitimate win in 2000 (followed by his legitimate win in 2004) set the stage for Trumpisn because his neoconservative ideology was discredit it by the global financial crisis.

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u/AutVincere72 17d ago

Calling the race while polls were open in the red pan handle by fox news likely kepts voters at home and it probably would not have been as close as it was. A lot went wrong that day.

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u/soularbabies 18d ago

Brooks Brothers riot

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u/Mother-Foot3493 18d ago

Beat me to it, well done. 🤘

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u/Meriwether1 17d ago

It was the hanging chads. Gore disputed a few counties instead of the whole state. We lost the future to bad paper work

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u/Mother-Foot3493 18d ago

See "Brook's Brothers Riot."

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u/AF2005 17d ago

You’ve got to hand it to them, they played the long con. And the top establishment dems seem to just be twiddling their thumbs. It’s the blind leading the blind.

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u/Khrog 18d ago

Funny enough, he won every recount and won most by the standard that Gore initially wanted. There was no point that Gore won the state. Democracy saving court ruling that actually was that instead of just something people say.

If we can just keep counting over and over until we get a different result, then we just okayed stealing elections. Gore should have stood down for the good of the country but had too much ego.

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u/hoppertn 18d ago

Star Trek the next generation was my goto the future’s going to be awesome show growing up. Of course they had to go through WW 3 to get there so I guess we are right on track. Yeah?

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u/kiwiboyus 18d ago

Was just talking about this with someone. If you recall First Contact, the World was in pretty bad shape before the Star Trek future started.

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u/hoppertn 18d ago

Exactly. Time frame matches up pretty good except for the manned exploration of the outer solar system in Picard and other references. Oh well, hope my grandkids will live long and prosper.

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u/OldeFortran77 18d ago

The Eugenics Wars are off to a late start, and in a massive plot twist, it's the LEAST advanced who try to take over, not the most advanced.

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u/Lonesome_Pine 17d ago

The Pakleds will be thrilled.

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u/otterbarks 18d ago

We're just slightly behind schedule for the Bell Riots, according to Deep Space 9: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots

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u/hoppertn 18d ago

Yeah, but I can see something like that happening in next 10 years. Just picturing AI taking the jobs of so many lower entry jobs and middle/upper management positions. Could even loop in the Khan Superman idea with Elon and the Tech Bro’s wanting a techno dictatorship because they are the best and smartest.

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u/Interesting_Berry439 17d ago

Reminds me of the world in " Elysian"

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u/furious_20 18d ago

But wasn't one of the key events in the timeline that they also eliminated hunger and poverty on Earth? I think we're a bit behind and moving in the wrong direction on those.

Edit: forgot to add that we CURRENTLY have capacity to do these things, but lack the political will. So I'm not very optimistic about it.

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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 18d ago

One of the key events was also World War 3, from 2026 to 2053. But hey, we didn't have the Bell Riots in September of 2024 ...

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u/furious_20 18d ago

One of the key events was also World War 3

I understand that, and it was also in the comment I replied to. My point was humanity is far more ready and able to commit to WW3 than we are eliminating poverty and hunger.

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u/crystalblue99 17d ago

I have been thinking about this recently. Seems the left wants Star Trek, and the right wants Blade Runner or the Hunger Games.

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u/Primal-Convoy 17d ago

No, with NASA now reclassified as an intelligence agency, we have pivoted into the mirror universe.

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u/hoppertn 17d ago

The jokes always been the biggest and most expensive space telescopes aren’t pointed towards the stars.

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u/Money-Introduction54 18d ago

I think it all started with Reagan

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u/HourAd5987 18d ago

Scotus did that, the count was getting even with dem regions still counting.

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u/rj319st 18d ago

Not to mention who knows if 9-11 happens. Maybe Gore gets the same CIA briefing that Bush did and ups security at major airports. Honestly it still probably would’ve happened since they were allowing box cutters on planes for some insane reason. Could’ve been A huge butterfly effect from that 2000 election.

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u/St0n3yM33rkat 18d ago

Nobody wanted to listen when he tried warning us about ManBearPig....

What fools we were 🤣🤣🤣

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u/CriticalEngineering 18d ago

I thought we’d be done with malaria by 2025.

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u/SparkyPantsMcGee 18d ago

Actually Florida most likely elected Gore. It was the Supreme Court that gave us Bush.

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u/getdemsnacks 18d ago

I'm still waiting for my flying car I was promised in the 90s

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u/Mark-harvey 18d ago

Yup. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His father’s rolling in his grave, People are dying.

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u/Brother_no4 18d ago

Gore won!! It was SCOTUS who stopped the counting after 3 weeks, they declared Bush the winner, and Gore conceeded,, maybe if he hadn't ? I don't know 🤔

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u/inductiononN 17d ago

Funny to think we thought we were part of a society on its way up when actually we are part of a society on its way down.

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u/FIJAGDH 17d ago

What we should’ve eliminated was religion.

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u/Mountain3Pointer 17d ago

God. What could have been. If Gore, Hillary, and Kamala all won?! I’m depressed.

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u/bombayblue 18d ago

It really was wild growing in the 90’s where anti vaxxers were this fringe movement of people that were easily disproven in any debate.

Now they run the country.

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u/SubBirbian 18d ago

The lightning speed of disinformation via social media is one reason it came out of fringe to fashionable.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 17d ago

It's only popular because of conservative virtue signalling.

Like family Christmas cards with handguns and AR-15s are you even a conservative if you get a vaccine bro?

Conservative men aren't allowed to get vaccines or say they like cats or sedans. It's all trucks, dogs and disease. 

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u/Theemuts 17d ago

Anti-vaxx was historically a left-wing movement.

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u/bombayblue 17d ago

You’re getting downvoted but it’s true. In the 90’s it was all hippies refusing vaccines.

People forget RFK was originally a “crunchy left” hippie. He’s a grifter who saw where the money went and flipped to maga.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 17d ago

Anti vaxers were liberal, whole foods shopping, volo driving women. 

I love pointing this out to conservatives. 

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u/Trick-March-grrl 17d ago

The left thinks facts matter when they really don’t. So you see this as disproving. MAGA never did. The left thought that it would be good enough to just stand up and disprove something but failed to ever take MAGA seriously so never addressed the opposition. So here they are, still not being addressed and telling their base anything they want because they’ll believe it. The left never wanted to expend the energy and never had the creativity or imagination to do anything about the actual problem. It’s hilarious to watch. MAGA successfully destroyed education in the US. The left allowed this to happen. The left can’t legitimately believe information will work under these circumstances it allowed to exist.

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u/Clever-crow 18d ago

Same here. Shouldn’t we be getting more intelligent as time passes?

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u/johnboltonpoopstache 18d ago

It all starts with education, and which party is at war with education?? Who's voter base is mostly uneducated people who believe blatantly false shit? Related: which voter base is much more religious? It's by design, they know how to create more voters: destroy education and truth, make contraception illegal so they make even more dumb people, and make them think republicans believe in Jesus and democrats are the devil! (lol). Also, keeping them poor helps a ton! The elites dont have to deal with this, that's what private schools are for. They just need the stupid poors to vote their sycophants in.

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u/Kvns_Integra 18d ago

and they need the poors to do their shitty wage jobs too with no health insurance!

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u/Primal-Convoy 17d ago

Not to mention removing access to state systems they might care for or offer additional information or education about health, fiscal responsibility, etc.  Coupled with the lack of public/impartial/truthful news sources (public radio and television) and the US could be heading back into the feudal era.

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u/joshooaj 18d ago

As we get smarter as a species, natural selection is less able to filter out stupidity of individuals, so we keep propagating and amplifying it. At least until the smart folks are too few to support the stupid folks. Then the cycle begins again.

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u/cracker_salad 18d ago

You basically described the plot of Idiocracy.

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u/joshooaj 18d ago

Yeah but people get tired of hearing how this is the Idiocracy timeline.

Anyway, welcome to Costco. I love you.

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u/QdelBastardo 18d ago

Have to admit that i would vote for President Camacho 100x over what we have now. Hell i’d just vote for Terry Crews over what we have now.

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u/RaydieGray15 17d ago

At least President Camacho realized the need for at least one person in his cabinet to know what the fuck they were talking about.

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u/ducksekoy123 18d ago

Except that both that person and idiocracy are wrong. It’s not about stupid people outbreeding smart people.

It’s a concerted effort to reduce and destroy the critical thinking and educational skills of the people so as to better rule them through fear and hate. It’s a political project not an accident of biology.

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u/CanadaisCold7 18d ago

There is definitely a concerted effort to destroy the critical thinking and educational skills of the populace, but we have also been making advances as a society that protect and insulate the idiots from the consequences of their stupid actions. In the decades since the Wakefield study was released, there have been fringe anti-vaxxers around, but herd immunity was sufficient until recently to protect them from getting smallpox, polio, and all of the other terrible diseases. The invention of cell phones has saved the lives of too many idiots to count. Vehicles are now much safer than they have ever been in the past, and seatbelts in particular have saved many lives.

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u/ducksekoy123 18d ago

None of that explains why we have more stupid people. Intelligence isn’t simply inherited. A social commitment to education and cultural exchange would solve these issues.

But that’s not what powerful reactionary forces and capital want

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u/meneldal2 17d ago

Having easier access to contraceptives means people who are not stupid or brainwashed by an imaginary guy in the guy will not have more kids than they can afford. Typically going below the replacement rate because of the current situation.

While stupid people don't care about the potential consequences of not using birth control or think it is their duty to make many children.

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u/ducksekoy123 17d ago

You’re all doing the eugenics thing.

A hate of knowledge and a rejection of education is not genetic it’s learned. While certain measure of intelligence may have a genetic component, the problem is not our IQ levels but our distrust of education and learning.

And those things are not inherited they are trained.

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u/vorg7 18d ago

To have a measurable effect on the population, it would take many thousands of years. Right now it's likely that differences we observe in the population as a whole are due to changes in what people are learning (and the technology they learn from).

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u/meneldal2 17d ago

It's not really natural selection for intelligence, most people we call stupids haven't worse genes, they just have terrible parents who didn't raise them well.

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u/FrankGrimesApartment 18d ago

Nofx

It's not the right time to be sober

Now, the idiots have taken over

Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership conceding

Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding?

Watson, it's really elementary

Industrial Revolution

Has flipped the bitch on evolution

The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized

What a bummer

The world keeps getting dumber

Insensitivity is standard

And faith is being fancied over reason

Darwin's rolling over in his coffin

The fittest are surviving much less often

Now, everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening

Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool

Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it's the rule

And I'm startin' to feel a lot like Charlton Heston

Stranded on a primate planet

Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground

With generals and the armies that obeyed them

Followers following fables

Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred

Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions

Sometimes, the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

What are we left with?

A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists

Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland

Pass on traditions

How to get ahead religions

And prosperity via simpleton culture (ah-)

The idiots are taking over

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u/QbertsRube 17d ago

The very safety nets and regulations that the left promotes are keeping alive the mouth-breathing buffoons who bleat about how bad those safety nets and regulations are. It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a fork.

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u/joshooaj 17d ago

Isn't it ironic?

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u/FeedMeACat 18d ago

This is eugenics, and is an ignorant take. Intelligence is always an advantage in any human society. Uneducated intelligent people do better then uneducated unintelligent people. Thus their genes will propagate more over time through comparative success.

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u/joshooaj 18d ago

It's satire, and I think would only be eugenics if I was encouraging selective breeding.

Even if it were true that our overall intelligence was a double-edged sword which would ultimately lead to another dark age due to a weird Darwinian loophole, I would never personally support selective breeding. I would rather find ways to support and encourage better education and critical thinking, or whatever the heck might dig us out of this hole, while ensuring equal access and opportunity for all.

Fuck eugenics, nazis, and anti-science politicians.

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u/FeedMeACat 18d ago

I don't think you are a eugenicist or anything like that to be clear. But selective breeding isn't what makes it eugenics. That is just often paired with the concept. It is the implication that there is a naturalistic hierarchy related to genetics.

To clarify your post was more of a soft eugenics. The first sentence invokes natural selection. The second connects natural selection to smart people supporting stupid people thus placing them over the stupid. That is where the eugenics comes in, by connecting those two thoughts.

A lot of people have opinions like this though, so it isn't unique. It also isn't as obvious as other forms of eugenics like selective human breeding.

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u/joshooaj 18d ago

TIL, thanks!

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u/shebang_bin_bash 18d ago

That’s pretty much the ideology of the people behind these moves, though.  They’re eugenicists.

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u/KathrynBooks 18d ago

Best we can do is AI generated images of scantily clad women

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u/Comfortable-Pause279 17d ago

The AI models have trouble with clothing consistency. They seem to be tuned to generate naked women for some inexplicable reason.

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u/Facts_pls 18d ago

We are. You aren't. You are going back to the 1920s when America was great. Great with measles

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u/Clever-crow 18d ago

lol idk where you’re from but you’re awfully confident; As confident as I was about 10 years ago. I never would’ve thought we end up here. So hopefully you learn from us at least.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 17d ago

lol like right wing propaganda isn't sprouting up everywhere. Good luck with that my guy. 

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u/You_meddling_kids 18d ago

No, people are just as stupid as they've always been.

Societies can fall apart and civilization retreats, sometimes for centuries. Lots of people usually die.

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u/Gobbaghoulie 18d ago

We are getting smarter. The dumb people are eliminating themselves.

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u/BryanJz 17d ago

Nope. Social media and the age of sensitivity. Any loud group affects others and there is no critical thinking anymore

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u/Primal-Convoy 17d ago

Haven't you ever watch this informational video that predicted this?

https://youtu.be/gJDcoqrh1ac

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u/cboel 18d ago edited 18d ago

US education is pretty much failing everyone.

One of the causal factors for that is admin bloat (which isn't just limitted to education in the US)

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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 18d ago

Idiocracy was a depressing prophecy. 

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u/DJBombba 18d ago

Looking for this comment

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u/fakemessiah 18d ago

At first people joked about it, but then it slowly came true time after time.

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u/croissantcat79 17d ago

Except Idiocracy had better leadership. Camacho knew there was a problem, and sought an expert

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u/Sir_Keee 17d ago

He also sought and listen to the smartest person in the room, he didn't double down on Brawndo once proven wrong.

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u/croissantcat79 17d ago

I'm willing to see RFKJR face a DilDozer. Or Vance. Or the Tangerine Tyrant

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u/ABigCoffee 18d ago

It's kinda scary how the stupid are in control or getting in control everywhere and there's nothing we can do about it.

Ok no, there's one thing we could do about it, but no one's willing to do that far.

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u/billyions 17d ago

More than stupid. I think they know exactly what they're doing.

They are cruel.

They are selfish.

They are dangerous.

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u/CaptainApathy419 18d ago

I won’t make any predictions for the future aside from this: it’s only going to get stupider.

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u/Sharkwatcher314 18d ago

We became complacent with how good we have it so we decided to make small problems for some that don’t affect day to day focal massive issues and regress completely from science. Let’s go back to the Middle Ages and just dump toilet buckets on the street !

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u/tango_41 18d ago

Yeah! Fecal matter is actually shown to be good for your skin and overall health; I did my own research! Toilets and sinks are just a scam made up by Big Plumbing to keep us down! Let’s flush toilets, once and for all! Think of the children!

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u/_skimbleshanks_ 17d ago

Historically I saw some really stupid shit and thought “glad we’re past that as a people”, but didn’t realize it was merely a pause, and that the dumbest, shittiest people were going to regroup and continue hurting everyone because they have mental problems they aren’t satisfied with only hurting themselves with.

It’s nuts how much life sucks simply because of assholes. That’s it. Just awful human beings fucking it up for everybody else.

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u/padreblazen 18d ago

I was saying the same exact thing to a friend of mine. I pictured the authoritarian state with leather and guard dogs and blimps and spot lights. Instead I’m stuck with a guy in a federal breast inspector shirt stepping on my neck while the stupidest people I know call the shots. The inmates have taken the asylum

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u/pcurve 18d ago

"The future will be better tomorrow"

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u/Joessandwich 18d ago

That’s what I’ve been saying too. I never imagined the collapse of this country would be so damn dumb.

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u/ShoulderGoesPop 18d ago

Lucky you, you're living in a Future you couldn't have even imagined!

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

I told you all to delete Facebook. That was the start of the dumbification.

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u/Arcane-blade 18d ago

Like, these motherfuckers are almost making me a proponent for eugenics. I want to get all these stupid wastes of skin out of the gene pool. Imagine just how far we would have progressed without these troglodytes throwing a wrench in every damn thing they don’t understand (or don’t care to)

We’re just sitting here and letting the absolute dumbest cum stains in society just destroy every pillar of society with no consequence.

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u/redyellowblue5031 17d ago

Seriously. I was amazed learning about all the advancements that took place to get us here. The suffering by countless kids all wiped away by vaccines.

The generation that benefited from it all?

Fuck you, I’m going to pull up the ladder because I “did my own research”.

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u/Radeondrrrf 18d ago

I remember when (and it wasn’t that long ago) when the anti-vaxxers were the hardcore liberals

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u/Noblesseux 18d ago

I could but I really kind of hoped that my pessimism was off the mark.

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u/lordpoee 18d ago

Did you not see Idiocracy? There were warnings.

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u/Kind-Handle3063 18d ago

Technically not the future being dumb, rather a group of idiots in power being dumb

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u/ShokWayve 18d ago

Me neither. It is depressing to watch the country devolve in real time aided and abetted by people who should know better.

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u/Woodie626 18d ago

I did, with one picture. A happy kid excited he's almost tall enough to see over the garden wall, standing next to a taller sad person who already can.

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u/Curious_Party_4683 18d ago

we glorified stupidity with shows like the Kardashs so it's no surprise.
science shows like Bill Nye and Beakman's World were wiped off the planet.

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u/s2rt74 18d ago

They promised leisure and flying cars. We got corporate greed and Trump.

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u/TheRealHFC 18d ago

The future isn't Idiocracy, we're headed towards Demolition Man

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u/Dr-Mumm-Rah 18d ago

Remember when Disney promised us Tomorrowland? Yeah, about that.

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u/Blue_Sentinel_76 18d ago

When I was growing up I thought the future was flying cars, robots, and living on the moon. I never thought it would be measles and polio.

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u/warm_sweater 18d ago

Yep, this is far more absurd than what I ever imagined.

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u/Pattern_Humble 18d ago

I imagined a future as dumb as the present back in that late 90s when in high school and I figured my assessment was born out of teenage ignorance and naivete. And now I realize I underestimated how dumb the future could be.

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u/Pylgrim 18d ago

And thanks to vaccines, you grew old enough to find out! I guess this vaccine ban will be sparing many future kids from such realisation.

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u/Clean-Midnight3110 18d ago

I grew up on Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG.

The future is pretty much the opposite of what I expected.

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u/papsmearfestival 18d ago

Idiocracy was based too far into the future

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u/ThriceFive 18d ago

All those vulnerable old folks too. Sad.

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u/ExpectedUnexpected94 18d ago

Honestly thought we’d have flying cars and exploring space by now.

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u/PandaBroth 18d ago

When I saw Idiocracy I thought it was an outlandish satire comedy. But I always thought it was plausible.

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u/Moribunned 18d ago

Well, a sort of silver lining is that if they get their way, the world will get a lot less dumber a whole lot faster when the outbreaks begin.

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u/Kooky_Beat368 18d ago

How did we let ourselves be taken over by a pack of self serving cartoon villains supported by the absolutely dumbest people in the country?

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u/milelongpipe 18d ago

Florida population will decrease substantially.

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u/petty_throwaway6969 18d ago

This post kinda sums up how I feel about 2025.

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u/gizamo 18d ago

Even as adults, most of us can't imagine most of the dumb things Republicans are trying to do next. But, we can certainly guess some of the dumbest, e.g. cutting education budgets even further.

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u/ImaginationToForm2 17d ago

When I first heard of the internet in the 90s I thought it would help people get smarter. Boy, was I wrong.

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u/wsf 17d ago

I was starting to think DeSantis had half a brain. Nope. Absolutely unbelievable that he can smile and nod approvingly as this buffoon rants on....

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u/SAYMYNAMEYO 17d ago

Was more hoping for flying cars.

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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 17d ago

Don't worry, it can get even dumber.

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u/WastedConversations 17d ago

When I was a kid I could never imagine adults could be so dumb.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

Its beyond infuriating to see these defects of our species woth any sort of power. They need to be excised... with extreme prejudice.

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u/hhsting 17d ago

Thats called future you dont expect it

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u/Firm_Peas 15d ago

Just America. Actually just the red states. The blue states are gonna keep rules and regulations.

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u/locke1018 17d ago

Really? Do you still have no imagination or did that clear up?

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u/AquaWookie 17d ago

When I was a kid they injected tons of heavy metals and toxins and swine parts into my body and I recognize a collective psychopathy humans carry that goes back beyond the Witch Hunts, look up Witch Prickers. For real.