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[–] Daft_ish 155 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

What about the spray tan eccenric NY city real estate agent that shits on a golden toliet with an army of yall-qaeda terrorists

[–] FlyingSquid 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Too ludicrous even for a Bond film. Even a Roger Moore Bond film.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

God that is so true. It'd be funny if it wasn't so true.

[–] Klear 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even an Austin Powers movie?

[–] DarkMessiah 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He might fit as an Austin Powers villain, especially if he had a bag of Cheetos in every scene.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yuge bag. The biggest. No one has a bigger bag than me. Not even Chester. Great guy, Chester. Not as great as me but, who is?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard the Bond movies got more serious after the Austin Powers movies came out.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365 19 points 1 year ago

Lex Luther would call him a cliche.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Let’s be honest, even Lloyd Kaufman would’ve dismissed that as too on the nose for even him to direct that movie…

[–] ShortFuse 10 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (5 children)

True story. After the 2016 election, there was a panel discussion. They had all the creators of the top US political TV dramas; The West Wing: Scandal: Veep: House of Cards and others. Every writer and producer said the same thing. If they'd had a character who said that they 'liked soldiers who didn't get captured' the advertisers and network bosses would have demanded that the character be hated by all Americans.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

South Park And SNL both commented that our 2016 situation was too ridiculous to parody

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Back in the 1960s, it was a common joke that ronald reagan would never be President because no one would vote for a guy who co-starred with a monkey.

Today's GOP would ignore reagan and run the monkey

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dyslexic ass universe we live in . The 2020's were supposed to be 'the future', an advanced post-scarcity world. We got a post-satire world instead

[–] paraphrand 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is what we get for over indulging on irony starting in the 90s.

Nothing has meaning anymore.

But maybe correlation isn’t causation…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've become more and more aware of "Irony poisoning" in every facet of our culture, from movies to memes to every other human interaction.

Maybe because of social media influence, we're so scared that holding any kind of sincerity will reveal a vulnerability that will be ruthlessly attacked...

We must be ready to say "No I don't mean that seriously" and change our projection within a moment's notice when the culture winds change again.

It's so bad anymore that people now need to add "un-ironically" to explain that they genuinely feel anything at all...

... and sometimes that's said ironically.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you look at 70s SF you get closer to the real 2020s.

AI taking over the world: Colossus: The Forbin Project

An Infectious agent causing problems: The Andromeda Strain

Human pollution causing massive issues: Soylent Green

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Have we forgotten about Trump, the Koch brothers, hmm who else.

[–] xylogx 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The current movie appears to be a bond idiocracy crossover.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idiocracy is not an accurate depiction of what we have going on, and I'm tired of people saying that it is. Idiocracy was about a dumbing down of everyone because smart people did not breed.

However, people still had the best of intentions despite their limited brain capacity. They just didn't know how to actually fix the world.

And real life we have people actively denying climate change despite the obvious effects not out of idiocy, but because they are literally being paid to, and because it makes a decent wedge issue for political gain. There is an obvious motive there that can be explained by malice instead of stupidity, especially since the people trying to get this money in power are likely to die before the effects of climate change come into full circle.

An idiocracy, they actively want to fix the climate problems, they are just literally too stupid to use water instead of Gatorade for plants. Because everyone is taking a slogan more literally than actual evidence.

Another great comparison is Donald Trump and Camacho. Donald Trump ignored the existence of covid-19, downplayed the effects of it, and blamed the parts of it that could not be ignored on his predecessor. He also villainized Anthony fauci, the man who was trying to make covid-19 only last a couple of weeks, but because he was villanized so hard it became a global pandemic that lasted over a year.

Camacho was fully aware there was a problem, acknowledge the people who were suffering and the Direct effects of the problem, and put the smartest man in the world in charge of fixing the problem.

It is not an app comparison, because Society is not the way it is because it is stupid, but because it is actively being manipulated by malefactors and bad faith agents.

The planet is not being mismanaged nor is it dying because it's just time. It is being murdered for personal gain by people with names and addresses.

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[–] Duamerthrax 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My gen x friends complained about the villains in Captain Planet, but the we got Trump.

Also, Tomorrow Never Dies was loosely based on Rupert Murdoch.

[–] FlyingSquid 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rich Biff in Back to the Future 2 was supposedly based on Trump.

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[–] humorlessrepost 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My dad complained that Captain Planet was “libtard environmentalist propaganda” 30 years ago. Some things never change. Now it’s just Trump instead of Limbaugh.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Britain is not holding up its end here, producing the mega-shagger we need to save us all.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Groovy baby.

[–] Everythingispenguins 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well they tried with Boris Johnson, but he just couldn't quite make the cut.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was more like that Bond parody with Rowan Atkinson. Bumbling and fumbling while bragging and shagging.

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[–] FlyingSquid 13 points 1 year ago

Hopefully not Richard Branson.

[–] cybervseas 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bezos also seems pretty villain-y.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, but instead of a Bond villain he's more of an Austin Powers villain

[–] youCanCallMeDragon 32 points 1 year ago

“Tear down that bridge so my yacht can pass”

[–] TheBat 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] captainlezbian 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, there’s also a New York businessman obsessed with gold and status who has political influence and ties to the ex KGB agent with goals of overturning democracy

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Especially the part where, he has a bunch of followers who claimed the emerald mine never existed and that it's all a hoax by his detractors. Even though the main man himself has admitted that his fortune came from a God damn Emerald mine.

[–] Darkard 27 points 1 year ago

We still have Murdoch media empire. The secretive media mogul pulling the strings from the shadows at the behest of the rich and powerful

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me FTFY:

Penchant for poisoning, and having comrades mysteriously fall from very high places

[–] peopleproblems 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me FTFY:

mysteriously fall from ~~very high places~~ open windows

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dudes, why miss an opportunity to use the incredible word defenestration? Sorry but I had to downvote both of you!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Real estate baron that desperately wants to be dictator is pretty stupid too.

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[–] phx 16 points 1 year ago

The real fiction is that government agencies would be trying to rein them in. If Musk came up with a ray that turned people into eldrich-style horrors, those agencies would be lined up as buyers.

Austin Powers at least got phallic shaped rockets right though

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Putin and Musk or From Russia With Love and Moonraker?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who is the former KGB agent?

[–] FlyingSquid 50 points 1 year ago

He's the guy currently trying to take over a sovereign European nation.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't know if you are joking and I am whooshing it but: Putin. He was former.. i believe even chief of the KGB. Was stationed in East Germany for a while and made quite the career. And now he instigated himself as a Russian Erdogan who can rule for as long as he wishes.

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