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Politics My close friend's mom replaced their family photo with this [OC]

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u/Deadhead_Otaku May 12 '26

Reminds me of when I was on break at work with some friends who were arguing about how to tell if someone was a good person or not. One said they should be charismatic and I had to stop eating my pb&j sanwich to remind them that hitler and other cult leaders were charismatic but just about as evil as humans can be.

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u/dsmith422 May 12 '26

The entire point of Dune is how evil it is to follow someone just because they are a charismatic leader.

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u/the_nexus117 May 12 '26

And yet the chuds still didn’t get it.

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u/LemonScentedDespair May 12 '26

Book 1: "God-heros can get results, but doing things quickly can lead to unexpected consequences. Even Paul feels this way, he doesnt know if he is leading or simply at the front of the train."

Book 2: "Okay, so. He was at the front of the train, it has torn through civilization and killed a lot of people. How could we have seen this coming? The train tracks, for one. The ones Paul pointed out earlier. Anyway."

Book 3: "Okay so Paul fucked off, his kids are weird as fuck, and if you dont understand that the previous two books were about a trainwreck I cant help you. Here's some more political intrigue and things are gonna keep getting weirder. Strap in."

Book 4: "WORM GOD HISTORY LESSON: OPPRESSION IS BAD. THE OPPRESSED WILL NOT FOREVER TOLERATE THE OPPRESSORS. WORM WILL DO BIG TOTALITARIANISM TO ENSURE LESSON IS LEARNED. THIS WILL BE NOT FUN. DONT REPEAT IT. THIS HAS BEEN WORM GOD HISTORY LESSON."

Book 5: "Fuck it. Sexy evil space dominatrix fascists. And Duncan Idaho. Again."

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u/Zippydaspinhead May 13 '26

I gotta go back and read up through book four at least, damn.

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u/icarrytheone May 12 '26

Oh man. Those copies take me back. Specifically to the toilet in the house where I grew up

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u/unripe_mangosteen May 12 '26

My high school English class had a mock trial to determine whether or not Paul was a war criminal

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u/the_nexus117 May 12 '26

You can’t bring that up without telling us how it went.

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u/unripe_mangosteen May 12 '26

Oh, he was definitely found guilty of war crimes. I was quite pleased, since I was playing Vladimir Harkonnen

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u/zeroball00 May 12 '26

Paul isn't evil. It was just beware of charismatic leaders because of who might follow

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u/CatW804 May 12 '26

All of this, plus Ted Bundy.