hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

it's a subtle trolling technique that relies on a somewhat forced naivety but hopefully pulls in clicks

sounds bad

"You should be ashamed" is probably my favorite good-faith rhetorical tack.

Maybe his reading isn't correct on specific arguments but my primary memory of seeing Idiocracy in the theater was its meanness. I have zero desire to watch it again, because of that, but it's especially jarring given Judge's other work (especially King of the Hill), which is generally kind toward people. Even in Beavis and Butthead there's not the misanthropy of Idiocracy.

there is something within me that wants to see a president camacho in my lifetime

Can it be mean and creepily eugenicist and fun and funny? I think that's what it is.

yeah i also feel it doesn't really fit in with judge's other work

TBF, the setup for that movie feels more than a little tacked on. I think he would've been just as happy presenting a string of unrelated stupidity vignettes if they would've held together as a movie.

am i misremembering or is there not also a lot of ebonics in the dialect of the idiot future?

maybe? but i think hick and dumb cali speak was more prevalent.

xp I don't remember that being the case at all.

Direct quote from the movie's narration: "the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, Valley Girl, inner-city slang and various grunts. Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice he sounded pompous and faggy to them."

idiocracy is problematic and kinda gross and I am in fact ashamed at how hard a lot of it makes me lol, however feeling ashamed about that isn't gonna unlol the lols

Problematic is a v problematic term

Joan C OTM

Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice he sounded pompous and faggy to them

hearing this line in my head forced a guilty but genuine irl lol

GO AWAY, BAITIN'

me irl

i think it just occurred to me how this site is now entirely political content but it's kind of really boring political content, like "look at this typo Trump made in a tweet" or "here's some really OTT reduction/interpretation of some already-widely-disseminated news story", and there seems to be way less content daily. I miss wacky articles abt NYC and stuff that was fun to read, sheesh

sending someone with an extremely sharp and unique point of view to do wacky things go on a Paula Deen cruise or go to some weird meditation seminar was really smart and original. I get that a large part of any current news site is going to be aggregation but besides j0rdan's videos (which tbh are really wonderful) is ANY original content being written at this point? Is anyone going places to report on stuff?

anna merlan went on a cruise, if you like: http://jezebel.com/sail-far-away-at-sea-with-americas-largest-floating-1760900554

gawker has been pretty bad/boring lately

lack of genuinely outraged bumps in the spirit of this thread probably related

yeah the editorial move to just covering the same old trump shit as the rest of the media is boring af

500 Days of Trump

Class & wealth issues aside, Idiocracy is full-on racist horseshit. Plus often funny ¯\(°_°)/¯

i hate the idiocracy view of the world. we have an ignorant, bloodthirsty proletariat is because our political class failed them, there's nothing to be smug about

we have an ignorant, bloodthirsty proletariat is because our political class failed them, there's nothing to be smug about

No, we have an ignorant, bloodthirsty proletariat because people are stupid. The "political class" is every bit as ignorant and bloodthirsty as the people who vote for them.

people are stupid

the giveaway is the unsophistication of their political understanding

I've caught flack for saying this before but I don't really believe that Judge made Idiocracy to make a point about anything, I think it was really just him wanting to make a funny movie about dumb people set in future-American Gladiators world, anyone who takes it seriously is kind of an idiot themselves

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352662289l/11289919.jpg

roland barthes needs some graphic design assistance

too late now, he's dead

https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/death-of-the-author.jpg

xpost

how ironic.

Etan Cohen was the other credited screenwriter and who wrote on everything from eps of B&B to KotH to shit like Madagascar 2 or Men in Black 3 or Get Hard.

this part of idiocracy is pretty close to coming true, imo

http://i0.wp.com/transitionvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IdiocracyFoxNews.jpg

i am unsarcastically glad that ilx's statute of limitations has expired on condescending links to death of the author

this is good gawker http://gawker.com/we-went-to-see-business-insiders-american-hq-in-new-yor-1761330663

sadly you are right.

http://gawker.com/coffee-connoisseurship-silly-1761947228

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/29/gawker-employees-first-union-contract-writers-guild

That's pretty good pay for linking to other sites' content.

$90k plus bennies, you cunt

― J0rdan S., Monday, February 29, 2016 12:55 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah gimme a few years on that one

do you have to be in nyc to get that editor job?

not necessarily. the editor of deadspin is remote. there have been other remote editors. for a lot of jobs (gawker or otherwise) it def helps to be in nyc tho.

https://twitter.com/Mobute/status/706921802073767936

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2016/news/160321/hulk-hogan-320.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cc-RPJwUkAEemGZ.jpg

guilty lol