Not all religious people are evil, just like not all ignorant people are evil. But all ignorance and all religion and prejudice and celebrity worship and cults and gambling and extended-cab pickup trucks are certainly evil.

lock up every religious people [sic] for this crime

Religiosity isn’t a crime. There’s a shitload of evil in this world, and almost none of it is (or can ever be) “criminalized.”

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All religions are a monstrous evil.

If you believe otherwise, you are comically naive and attitudes like yours are partly responsible for this child’s death.

All Muslim women and children and NO men whatsoever should be allowed to immigrate.

I’m actually a huge fan of death. People don’t change their minds generally. They just die. We make progress one funeral at a time.

Yeah it’s fucked up

• If someone checks “US average income” they’ll come away with the impression that Americans are rich.

• If someone checks “US median income” they’ll come away with the impression that Americans are poor.

Median is not the same as average. Also, we don’t check math definitions in a dictionary, since we are not in middle school.

I’m not being pedantic, you’re just wrong. The average income in the US is deceptively high, whereas the median is quite low. This difference (or skew) is a sign of inequality.

The arithmetic mean, also called the average, or the expected value, is not the same type of calculation as the median.

There are many types of means or averages (harmonic, geometric, etc), but they all require a summation, an integral for continuous random variables and sigma notation for discrete. The median is the middle value. Totally different.

Low median* income. The income distribution is skewed since a handful of people have all the money.

Also don’t forget this:

That’s not what the British/French aristocracy who bastardized and propagandized the concept of Anarchism want you to believe.

Fair enough. I don’t begrudge your enjoyment.

You expressed surprise that Herbert is a rabid conservative. I pointed out that the book you claim to like is 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 insane plot.

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

Ironic comment, since Dune’s story is supernatural nonsense written by a misogynistic homophobe who probably does think the Bible is the greatest book of all time.

Yes, but the book also became really popular among the Gen X crowd, whose hunger for sci fi was fueled by things like Star Wars.

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If you think Dune is well-written, wait until you read a modern sci-fi novel. The shittiest space opera would probably blow your mind.

Although the movies are better than the books, the actual story is spectacularly awful. Have you ever had someone try to explain it to you? It’s unhinged. And the book is so poorly written from a literary perspective. Dune is Twilight for Gen-X’ers.

Frank Herbert is such a narcissist he actually accused Star Wars of ripping him off.

It’s a relief then that Dune is one of the dumbest fucking stories of all time and casting doesn’t matter.