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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Godric@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not saying you have to be on drugs to imagine space sex ninjas on cocaine planet, but I am saying something was on.

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just your average dream when taking melatonin

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      • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        those weren’t melatonin gummies bro

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  • trashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Herbert was on spice when he was writing Dune in 1965 because how else he could see the future of the USA?

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    • Jiggs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Possibly because history tends to repeat itself. Especially in case of US starting conflicts there. Could easily see the Operation Ajax being what he based the book on.

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      • Flower@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Same with cyberpunk lore. Often that reads like current events, but in the end it’s extrapolation of events back then mixed with knowledge of history.

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      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well the red flags have always been there from the beginning but the people chose to look the other way, considering the genocide of Native Americans had been a policy since the beginning.

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    • Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Look at its past.

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  • Dzheyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This made me giggle in the best way possible

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is there a drug that gives you visions of the future?

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    • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Snorting crude oil

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    • Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Peyote

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    • dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Raw milk.

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  • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Almost like America has been doing this for decades, regardless of which of the 2 parties are in power.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The degree to which the O&G industry has co-opted the Republican Party cannot be understated. This only really took root under Ford, when guys like Bush and Cheney were promoted into the upper echelons of the political leadership while in the midst of converting historically Dixiecrat Gulf Coast states to the Republican Party.

      Democrats were late to the party, having more heavily aligned with the NY-based Finance Sector and CA-based global shipping magnets. It’s been the outsized demand for energy in Silicon Valley that has really collapsed the Green-ish Democrats into O&G by way of Obama/Trump/Biden Era rapidly escalating demands for electricity. And even then, Dems are consistently in favor of generic economic growth while Republicans are hyper-fixated on O&G growth exclusively.

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  • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whatever drugs he was on, I want some. Just like one or two doses. So I can forget about all this bullshit for a little while. 😮‍💨

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Listen, there may be a drug at the gas station called spice, but do NOT smoke it!

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      • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I prefer my spice vintage:

        Image

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Will it help you forget or will it make you see every potential outcome?

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      • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We can resurrect this pile of shit

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  • gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s well known that shrooms inspired him when he wrote the Dune series.

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    • Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was not known to me but based just on the description of melange and how Paul saw reality after taking it, it should have been obvious

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Frank Herbert and Philip K. Dick were high as fuck and they were creative but very fucking stupid

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  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Keeping with the story, of only Iran had a white savior to come and free them! /s

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  • silver@das-eck.haus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Frank was on that Algerian cinnamon

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  • The_Wumpus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The spice must flow

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  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Harkonnen was only appointed to manage a war, and to decapitate the only threat to the imperial throne.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Emperor pitted two historic rival houses against one another, with the expectation that they’d annihilate themselves and leave room for upstarts to take their place. The Bene Jesuits had seen this cycle play out before and knew it would preserve the Emperor’s power at the expense of the advancement of the society as a whole. So, they backchanneled a breeding program between Atreides and Harkonen - on the Atreides side via Lady Jessica and Duke Leto, on the Harkonen side between Feyd-Rautha and Margot Fenring - to yield the prophesied optimal off-spring, the Kwisatz Hadarach.

      But all of this ran afoul of a third agency, the Planetologists of Dune, who believed the planet’s perpetual condition of spice harvest was undermining what could be a new kind of Eden for domestic development and liberation. Their efforts to irrigate Arakus at the expense of the global galactic trade (catalyzed by Lady Jessica’s unlicensed male hier) was what ultimately undermined both the Emperor’s political schemes and the Bene Jesuits’ breeding program.

      In the end, the primary antagonists of the Dune series are the environmentalists, fighting a guerrilla war against a Galactic Oil & Gas Industry.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bene Jesuit, now I can’t help but think all those ladies were secretly the catholic church all along 🤣

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    • Napster153@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just like in real life!

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Corn. Beans. Why are hu-mans so tedious.

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  • Akamun@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This has happened a lot in history. But things change and what used to work just fail. He was unable to adapt quickly.

    While his opponent remade themselves every time.

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  • spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How big is his dick, canonically

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    • binux@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He’s got chode energy for sure

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  • bender223@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    bro, thats just trump without his makeup and hair 😛

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  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eh, not so much about history repeating itself or seeing the future. These things tend to happen when you have dumb cretins in power, that don’t learn from history. It’s dead simple to avoid a mistake if you read a book and someone else has made it and with the power of hindsight you have the solution now. But some people are even too dumb for that. Enter the world of Donald Trump.

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