While there are a lot of parallels to conflicts in the middle east, Dune was largely inspired by the Russian empire's war against the people of the Caucuses that were united by Imam Shamyl in the 1800s. The book The Sabres of Paradise details Shamyl's life and the conflict and much of the Fremen culture is basically lifted wholesale from it.

Cursed.

No response to people pointing out the ABS data contradicts you? You have zero credibility, just another conservative clown eating up the misinformation you're being fed by propoganda.

I think Ashitaka calls her San.

That's amazing.

Her name is actually "San".

How do you reconcile this assessment with these statements on the ABS site:

"Net overseas migration was 306,000 in 2024-25, down from 429,000 a year earlier. Migrant arrivals decreased 14% to 568,000 from 661,000 arrivals a year earlier."

That username lmao

I rate it "Goes hard".

Yeah its a shield.

Hilarious that this is true and yet the US is still somehow fatter.

I saw Bladerunner as a teenager and it affected me so much I'm now a grown-ass man living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Follow your dreams.

"Men are victims of the patriarchy too" is an incredibly powerful message that I wish more men understood.