if you can't prove your point, just accuse your interlocutor of being middle class what's especially funny, and the essay really gets, is that when your interlocutor is actually poorer than you, you don't back off, you double and triple down

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Without computers to process data, navigate the stars, or analyze politics, the Imperium forced human biology to fill the gap. So the Butlerian Jihad did not democratize the universe, but instead concentrated power through slavery and violence into the hands of a few ruthless aristocrats.

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How many times are we going to go over this: In Dune, the Butlerian Jihad may have intended to destroy thinking machines to “free” humanity, but it accidentally created a brutal, hyper-feudal system that exploited human beings as literal substitutes for technology. It was not an AI-free paradise.

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The current ruling regimes in both the US and Russia share a foundational conviction that the wrong side won their Civil War.

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Correction: they didn’t sit on their hands, they also helped carve up Poland

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