• yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
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    7 hours ago

    The story glorifies a eugenically engineered monarchy and waxes poetic about the evils of homosexuality.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, but that isn’t why people like it. Like Harry potter and Wizarding world of the transphobe.

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        3 hours ago

        You expressed surprise that Herbert is a rabid conservative. I pointed out that the book you claim to like is literally a celebration of fascism.

        Yeah, but that isn’t why people like it.

        Correct. People like Dune because it’s the biggest book they’ve read, not because they were paying attention to the prose or narrative quality of its boot-licking and insane plot line.