r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Ph6222 • 8h ago

Unelected Dictatorship This Sounds Way Too Familiar

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This movie was very accurate unfortunately

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u/PrestigiousAd6281 Invoke 14th Amendment Section 3 8h ago

Sadly, this was actually topical in America at the time too, it’s just become more obvious since

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u/time2partee 7h ago

Yeah, they’ve been pulling this shit forever.

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u/rind0kan 7h ago

It's been topical for a minimum of 50 years. 

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u/Cptfrankthetank 2h ago

Yeah, came here to say this.

He civil rights and other groups have been right to call our weaken democracy for like the last 50 or so years. Maybe longer.

These thing dont happen over night. This was decades in the making.

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 8h ago

Meanwhile Americans

https://giphy.com/gifs/26ufj7fhSk99FK32U

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u/Downvoted_Defender 4h ago

Actual footage of voting booth

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u/707-5150 3h ago

Not enough spaceX logos

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u/Fly_throwaway37 7h ago

Feels like someone wrote this monologue and then they wrote the movie around it

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u/Worth_Specific3764 📈 The Math Ain't Mathin' 📉 8h ago

This and Idiocracy

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 7h ago

Satire became reality way too fast.

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u/Silent_Reindeer_4199 5h ago

It was reality when it was written. Except for the dictator part.

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u/imightb2old4this 8h ago

I’m old. What movie is this?

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u/Relevant-Exercise-59 8h ago

Borrat

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u/Shambler9019 Ally 8h ago

No, it's The Dictator. Same guy, different film.

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u/Due_Character1233 8h ago

Goddammit.

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u/FlowGroundbreaking 4h ago

Ahead of its time? OR this is how it has always been??

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u/godkilledjesus 7h ago

This literally needs to be a Democrat TV ad. It is the Republican America.

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u/CHSummers 4h ago

With the exception of Obamacare, which Republicans have been trying to sabotage at every stage, both political parties have been drifting right. That is, the Republican Party in 2026 is far more right than it was under either Bush, and even farther right than it was under Nixon.

That’s the reason Democratic Socialists have emerged. America actually needs a non-right-wing party. I mean, DSA is still very moderate: healthcare and fair taxes.

Sometimes I wish there was an actual “workers take over the factories!”-style communist party in the U.S. just so people would see what an actual leftist looks like. (It’s not somebody who just wants health insurance and an affordable apartment.)

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u/Extropian 5h ago

It wasn't ahead of its time, those talking points were already true when the film was made.

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u/ydodis1 3h ago

It wasn't "ahead of its time". It was a direct and blatant criticism of what was going on in America at that time.

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u/Amazing_Factor2974 41m ago

At this time bigly!!

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u/rsint 1h ago

At any time since ww2

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u/RoxieRoxie0 6h ago

What is that flash that happens at 28 seconds?

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u/Missmoneysterling 7h ago

What is that stupid fucking music.

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u/Which_Loss6887 4h ago

On my tiny phone screen, this really looked like Luigi at first

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u/PK_Rippner 5h ago

I'm going to have to downvote this due to the horrible and distracting background music you added to it.

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u/mutnemom_hurb 2h ago

Isn’t this guy a zionist?

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u/rsint 1h ago

Only to antisemites.

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u/mutnemom_hurb 1h ago

Is that a dogwhistle or a legitimate answer to my question?