Every time I see "Butlerian Jihad", I know the person is more familiar with Brian Herbert's atrocious books than Frank's.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you argue yours is better?
A few things (written on my phone, forgive the SEO list): * One idea per sentence, more than one tends to make massive run-on sentences that go too far. * Removes irrelevant details. Why does it matter that a Guardian article was the thing that gave the writer the missing link? Essentially the trick is to take your ideas down to the bare minimum required to express them portably and then write that. It makes things m…
Sounds very Hemingway.
OP might benefit from using https://hemingwayapp.com/
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#33Every time I see "Butlerian Jihad", I know the person is more familiar with Brian Herbert's atrocious books than Frank's.
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#34Belgian action group "Code Rood" (Code Red) is planning to occupy a data centre next week... https://code-rouge.be/
We need broad antifa action????(++_
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#35This author sure has an ax to grind against an imaginary online "Left" strawman
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#36Every time I see "Butlerian Jihad", I know the person is more familiar with Brian Herbert's atrocious books than Frank's.
This essay does call Brian Herbert a failson so I don't think he's endorsing those books
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I'm trying my hardest at local vc
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#39A family member of mine is mayor of a provincial town. She has to deal with protesters reenacting the Neurenberg rallies, angry drug dealers and the run of the mill psychiatric melt down citizen.
There is a panic button in her penthouse.
Nobody is crying about Jihad and ten years from now she will be living in the green zone.
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#40This was hard to read; the writer really did not come from the school of succinctness. If the writer is reading this, please try making an edit where you remove as much of the fluff and rephrase sentences like: > When I read this detail, tucked away near the end of a Guardian article, I winced to see another of my predictions come true; that the ‘Butlerian Jihad’ would soon enter public life not as mere literary meta…
They’re saying that the popular conception of a “Butlerian Jihad” is a pale shadow of what Frank Herbert outlined over the course of four novels, all of which are… look, have you read any of them? Whatever virtues you care to ascribe to Dune, “succinct” is not one of them.